Intel Bearlake G35 socket support

[imported_faddat]

I'm planning on buying a very intense system upgrade shortly. I had been planning on picking up an Asus G965 board and a c2d 4300 and overclocking the daylights out of that thing like a celeron 300a, but I have recently heard that Intel is releasing the "bearlake" chipset family shortly. I have googled high and low and I have not been able to figure out if intel will be supporting socket 775 on bearlake so that I can re-use my CPU if I want to simply buy now and upgrade my motherboard later.

So, the question is-- will "bearlake" support socket 775?

and

Any word on a release date for "bearlake" other than "q2 2007"?

also....

since "bearlake" supports ddr3, that means that I must buy ddr3, huh? (and therefore it would be a bad idea to plan on upgrading just the motherboard from a G965 to a g35)


Thanks!

 

[moosey]

I don't think you're going to be overclocking the daylights out of anything on a G965, you need the P965

 

[jim1976]

Bah.. Do your upgrade and don't worry about Bearlake..
Fsb 1333 DDR3 support and PCIx 2.0 support.. "Big" news..

Besides that if you want to upgrade later Bearlake has both DDR2/3 memory controllers built in.. So this won't be an issue..

 

[imported_faddat]

So wait.... bearlake *will* support socket 775?

Thanks !

-Jake