The price of Intel’s P55 PCH is also much lower than the X58 chipset, in fact P55 is expected to be price competitive with P45 + ICH10.
what?
x58+ich10=~50$
p45+ich10=~40$
P55(ich10_2)=~40$

much cheaper than x58?
price "competitive" with p45?
it costs about the same while offering a lot less features... if there will be cheap P55 boards it will be thanks to mainboard makers, NOT thanks to intels chipset pricing!
and yes, eventually there will be 100$ and below p55 boards... eventually...

The Lynnfield Preview: Rumblings of Revenge
oh please

Based on what I've seen, Lynnfield isn't ready just yet - it's not an artificial delay.
The motherboards are in rough shape, CF/SLI isn't working and we're still at very early revs of the CPU's silicon. While I think that the chip will be ready far in advance of its rumored September shipdate, the CPU and motherboards aren't yet.
wha? you tested with the first lynnfield ES chips intel ever sent out, what did you expect anand?
boards not beeing ready, im not surprised, but cpus? they are fine...

Why would anyone want a LGA-1366 system then? I believe there are three major advantages to the LGA-1366 platform for single-socket desktops:

1) Support for Gulftown. You can only get 6-cores from the LGA-1366 platform in 1H 2010, Intel currently doesn't have any 6-core LGA-1156 parts planned.

2) More overclockable CPUs. The best yielding Nehalems (and highest clocked Nehalems) will be LGA-1366 processors. I wouldn't expect any 1GHz+ overclocks from LGA-1156 CPUs.

3) More bandwidth to PCIe slots. I don't see this as a huge advantage today, but there may come a time when having as much bandwidth to your GPUs as possible is important. I'm thinking general purpose GPU computing, DX11, OpenCL sort of stuff. But we're not there yet.
1) yes
2) that doesnt make any sense whatsoever... 1366 and 1156 cpus are diferent silicon... the only part that makes sense is that 1156 will not overclock that well, but thats what intel wants, we will just see about that once 1156 mainboards come out
3) yes, but you might not only use that for gpus... raid plus sli is something i really wouldnt recommend on 1156...
and last but not least, you can get 50% more mem and probably clock it better on 1366 than on 1156 thanks to 3 channels and not 2.

so, 1156 will perform about the same as 1366 cpus, but overclock slightly worse. wow, who would have thought?
the really interesting part here is that 1156 will beat phenom2, but phenom2 is and will be a lot closer to intel than phenom1 ever was to c2q and i7.

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so Anandtech isn't under NDA?
intel and anandtech are beyond things like NDAs...