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Intel LGA1156 One Minute or Less Linus Tech Tips

2009-09-04
basically today we have something launching that is kind of confusing we've got a new socket from Intel it is socket 1156 and it features core i5 and core i7 CPUs now the core i5 doesn't have hyper threading but the core i7 does we used to have a core i7 that fit on socket 1366 but this is not the same thing it uses the same architecture so you're going to get a lot of the same performance but there are a few key differences basically you've got support for only dual channel memory now instead of triple channel memory and instead of support for SLI and crossfire with 16 X 16 X bandwidth we've only got support for 8 X 8 X bandwidth now in real world terms that's going to not make much of a performance difference but it may matter if you're running very high-end cards so thank you for tuning in to our one minute overview of socket 1156
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