Corsair Labs: Intel Core i7 Build & Architecture Changes » Introduction - The "New" Way

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But "Nehalem" changes everything. Much like AMD did with their initial launch of the Athlon64 years ago, Intel has finally moved the memory controller onto the processor itself.

Here's how the new way works.

THE NEW WAY - QUICKPATH INTERCONNECT


The FSB has been removed completely - the memory controller and processor now have very little delay. This allows much lower latency and provides a significant increase in computing performance.

How significant? Let's find out....





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