Well the upcoming Lynnfield processors, the corei5 processors from Intel made a good hit and a slap of the public news and gossip. Most of the sources we have given are the upcoming features and also new products coming out in the new corei5 series. Well the new processor and a new socket format needs obviously a new chipset to run and take the lead to mid-range series and evidently superseding the already aging core2 processors.
Well the P55 is just a next generation mid-range chipset developed by Intel to house the new Corei5 processors with the new LGA1156 socket type configuration. It is a new version of the P45 in the previous series, and a smaller brother from the high end X58 chipset that housed the more powerful and the more expensive corei7. In the initial release of the corei5 processor, codenamed the Lynnfield of the Intel branch, is the answer to all of the forum of people asking if there is going to be a mid-range complacent that will make the new corei7 available to the general public in its cost and a much better performance stakes that the news so do publishes.
Much about the entanglement of the how the corei5 is the saviours’ of most mid-to-entry level PC users who want a cheap affordable hardware to play those high end games in ease. Well the P55 chipset, with the respect of the rest of the P-express series from Intel, is a starting level chipset that will mostly house the new LGA1156 processor, the problem is the naming and series that he P55 can have a multiple options of having a two corei7 processors that is dedicated in the newer LGA1156. Just to keep with the name of having the high performance specs that it has. While the P55 is still the same as the X58, incorporating the new QPI system, the onboard memory controller in the processor and with the support of the DDR3 memory, but having the previous DIMM combination, so you will have the older 4GB combination rather than the 3 to 6 GB combination kit in the Corei7. well the P55 comes with a support of both SLI and crossfire graphics configuration, as well as an external southbridge for controlling the storage compartments and any other components that are secondary to the whole hardware system.
this is an example layout of the new P55 chipset from Intel
Well, the new invention in the P55 is the removal of the Northbridge controller rather than having an external controller for the PCI express for the graphics card and any other expansion cards, to save on the space and also latencies it has a space inside the processor. Most of the time we might see the P55 chipset to be a much cheaper cost with the removal of the excessive Northbridge process can put the cost down, well we saw in the new products in the ASUS and Gigabyte products. Well the problem is faced is the high cost of the processor with the extra controller die so we might have some irregularities of the combination prize. But for the record, this can be a good new break for Intel, but in the new upcoming corei3 processors, with a onboard GPU chip to make the processor virtually the all in one package can be a good thing and a bad thing is some sorts. Well the P55 chipset still is a new way forward in the combination of processor usability and external packages.