Like with the X48 chipset, which is a slightly updated X38 with official support for 1600MHz FSB, Intel will be introducing a newer version of the P35 called the P45.
The only difference between the two seems to be the official support of the 1600MHz FSB, like in the X48.
Intel will also introduce the Core 2 Quad QX9770 in January, running on a 1600MHz FSB, so it needs more chipsets other than the X48 to support it.
Eventually the 1600MHz FSB should move to more affordable CPUs, further increasing the need for a cheaper chipset supporting this FSB clock.
There are some news speculating a delay in the launch of the new line of Penryn CPUs, so the launch of the P45 could move from January to another date although this wasn't yet confirmed by Intel.
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The P45 will probably also be updated with PCIe 2.0 support, that P35 lacks.
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P45, G45, P43 & G43 will feature the 65nm process ICH10... notwithstanding the 15% performance boost and full support of PCIe2.0 (but at 2 slots running at 8x); why can't Intel combine the improvements into their "enthusiast's chipset?" X48 uses southbridge ICH9 (supports 2 PCIe1.0, but 2 slots at 16x).
Other than Skulltrail, which will be mostly out of the reach of mere mortals, it seems that they are encouraging consumers to reconsider 790FX MBs.
Why can't they get all of the goodies into one chipset that they can debut on time with the processors; instead of stringing people out (like Microsoft's OS) did on support for multi-GPU's at 16x. It seems like six years that we've been waiting for the "total package."
They care more about vPro and DMR than they do benefitting enthuisiests, who are the people more likely to spend the high asking price for performance increases.
Indeed DRM is a problem to most users, especially if DRM comes to use trusted computing specifications. Then we're mostly screwed, every piece of software that has all that DRM crap most of the time doesn't work because of it.
vPro seems to be useful and I haven't read anything about it being bad. It is very useful in enterprise environments.
Intel doesn't put all it can in one chipset because they don't have to. It's even worse now that AMD can't put up a fight, even pricing is going down the drain. I agree with you, they are acting like Microsoft again.
I was perplexed when for once they allowed core 2's mobile to run on yonah boards. It was one of the only times they weren't making people buy a chipset to get a cpu working or didn't remembered to change the slot.
On the desktop side sometimes they come up with VRM updates, be it needed or not, to sell newer boards and chipsets, the Pentium D era was outrageous.
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