Just under a year ago, Intel launched the first Core i7 processors based on the revolutionary Nehalem architecture to critical acclaim. However, the initial high price of the LGA1366 motherboards and triple-channel DDR3 memory kits required by these processors made the original Bloomfield-design Core i7 CPUs a hard upgrade to justify.
Intel's plan was always for LGA1366 to be for high-end systems, however, and later planned to release a lower-cost platform to fit between Core 2 and Core i7. Based on the Nehalem architecture, the new Lynnfield CPUs are designed to fill that gap. To keep down the cost of upgrading, a Lynnfield CPU has only a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, rather than the triple-channel controller of a Bloomfield CPU, so you'll only need a two-stick memory kit.
With fewer connections between CPU and memory than LGA1366, the socket for Lynnfield has 1,156 pins as opposed to 1,366. The resulting LGA1156 processor socket is midway in size between LGA1336 and LGA775, and has different mounting holes to those of LGA1366 and LGA775. This means that you'll also need a new cooler for an LGA1156 motherboard.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
