When will Intel move away from socket 775 and introduce PCI-E 2.0?

Question so that i will know when they release it,coz my bad experience before,1 month after i bought my P4 3.0Ghz 478,they release socket 775 and PCI-E,making life difficult for 478 users!

As far as I'm concern, not before the release of Nehalem, which is probably the second half of 2008.

PCI 2.0 is available on X38 chipset later at the end of this year.

I think it should be is end of this year. But when PCI-E 2.0, i think LGA775 still haven phased out yet.

not anytime soon. i had the chance to look at the LGA775 tech specs WAY before it was released (this was in 2003-2004) and it can serve a CPU more than it's ever needed (voltages, bandwidth per pincount). but yeah i think the next big microarchitecture upgrade will see a revision to the mature 775 socket. multi-core plus with the new CSI architecture, they definitely need more pins in the socket.

it has nothing to do with pci-e 2.0. that is a feature of the northbridge. besides if the graphics card you want to buy doesnt support pci-e 2.0, it'll b useless anyway...but the backward-compatibility feature is something i look forward to, just in case i want to have an upgrade in the future.

what, do you want to change your mobo again? not me

PCIE are tied to northbridge/southbridge, it does not effect the cpu socket or whatsoever at this time.

the onli time intel will change to more pins sockets is when the processor power/current consumption increases.. and thus needs more pins for power delivery/grounding

AFAIK. sockets since socket7 (pentium) the bus size are still 64bit (but intel improves upon data signaling protocols(from GTL or whatever its call to now quad pumped))

This post has been edited by jinaun: Jul 21 2007, 08:16 PM