Quote Originally Posted by stevecs View Post
I thought that Gainstown was the dual socket version and bloomsfield was the single socket version has that changed? I still don't like only having 36 PCIe lanes (really want something like 48-56 or so which is why AMD is still in the running but can't ignore the processor performance of intel).
Bloomfield is the single-socket QPI-supporting processor, Gainestown is the dual-socket QPI-supporting processor, Lynnfield and Havendale are the DMI-connected processors with onboard PCI-E. Going by your current system's specs those are not really something to be interested in, those are more for Dells and laptops from the specs they've currently released.. Besides, only Bloomfield and Gainestown is coming this year. Those other ones are due later next year.

If you look at the diagrams in my link it's also possible to have two Tylersburg chips on the board connected by QPI and to the two CPUs, for 64 PCI-E 2.0 lanes.