Westmere and Intel X58SO MB?

[Mars999]

Will Westmere work in Intels X58 MB? I have had bad experiences with Intel and not being able to upgrade to the latest CPUs on there MB's in the past. e.g. 975x wouldn't work with 45mm CPUs where P965 chipset MBs did...

Anyone have any ideas or insight as I am in the market right now to build a new PC.

Thanks

 

[readymix]

been there and all i can say is; fool me once, shame on me, blah,blah,blah. you'll never know one way or the other except by its absence on the supported processor list. my guess anyway.

 

[Mars999]

Yeah, and that sucks, because I would buy the X58 board right now and a core i7 920 CPU and upgrade to the Westmere CPU later, but not going for it if I have to buy a new MB....

Thanks

 

[heyheybooboo]

I believe the term 'Westmere' refers to an entire class of 32nm microprocessors the first of which (I think) is Clarksdale.

Clarksdale will have the IMC like Nehalem but an additional gpu core with the die having a new instruction set. As I understand it the initial platform will partially 'neuter' the traditional north/south bridges by incorporating PCIe on the die and use something called direct memory access instead of quickpath like Nehalem.

I feel certain that Nehalem will have a 32nm variant somewhere on the 'roadmap' but one of the Intel gurus will have to answer your question about the specific mobo chipset(s).