Tom´s Hardware Guide have thrown up their sneak preview of Intel's upcoming Alderwood - Grantsdale Chipsets! Here's a snip.
In order to properly run the platforms, which have been overhauled from the ground up. Among the extensive changes are the introduction of DDR2 memory with high performance potential, serial PCI Express as a replacement for AGP (and in the mid-term also for PCI), the radical structural adaptation of systems and motherboards to BTX and, last but not least, the processor socket LGA775. The latter shouldn't be a problem for Intel, because the process of adapting to the new package should be quick. Furthermore, the memory required could already be available in smaller amounts and correspondingly higher prices. It will be more difficult with the graphics cards because ATI and NVIDIA are still squabbling about whether the right strategy should be the "real" PCIE solution from ATI or the AGP chips with additional PCIE bridge from NVIDIA - in any case, neither are available at the moment.
Alderwood - Grantsdale Chipsets
In order to properly run the platforms, which have been overhauled from the ground up. Among the extensive changes are the introduction of DDR2 memory with high performance potential, serial PCI Express as a replacement for AGP (and in the mid-term also for PCI), the radical structural adaptation of systems and motherboards to BTX and, last but not least, the processor socket LGA775. The latter shouldn't be a problem for Intel, because the process of adapting to the new package should be quick. Furthermore, the memory required could already be available in smaller amounts and correspondingly higher prices. It will be more difficult with the graphics cards because ATI and NVIDIA are still squabbling about whether the right strategy should be the "real" PCIE solution from ATI or the AGP chips with additional PCIE bridge from NVIDIA - in any case, neither are available at the moment.
Alderwood - Grantsdale Chipsets
