Socket 1155 WILL support Ivy Bridge.

Mez

Mez

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Throughout the forums, I see a lot of speculation on whether or not LGA 1155 will support the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs. I'm currently doing research to keep this thread full of useful info.

Yes, I do realize there are members here that know 1155 will support Ivy Bridge CPUs, but others may not.

INFO
Seems like Intel will be releasing their Ivy Bridge processors to the LGA 1155 socket motherboards. Yes, of course new chipsets will be released along with the new 22nm architecture, but so far it seems like flash-updates for older motherboards will be available for use on SOME (not confirmed) processors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155

Some manufacturers are already beginning to provide BIOS/UEFI updates for 22nm architecture support.

(Click BIOS)
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=564

Any and all useful information that can be added to this thread will be appreciated and used.
 
We've known that Ivy-bridge will supported on 1155 boards so long as the BIOS is up-to-date for a while now. I personally think this is a good move because it does mean if you are looking into upgrading from SB to IB then at least you don't need to go out and buy a new motherboard, you can just go and buy a new CPU and update your BIOS and it should be fine.
 
Its all up to the board manufacture, if they supply a bios update. Some will, some wont. Then some will for just certain boards. They would really rather sell you a new board then give you a free bios update.
 
Forgot about the new chipset. So it's going to be like AM3 having backward-compatibility with AM2+ on the supported and updated boards?
 
It is shocking to me that Intel decided to not go with a new processor socket for a new processor line. I like this information. Hopefully it ends up being true.
 
2048Megabytes said:
It is shocking to me that Intel decided to not go with a new processor socket for a new processor line. I like this information. Hopefully it ends up being true.
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It is, they've reviewed it and all, i made a thread for it with a link to anandtech, doubt they'de be bs'ing it all.
 
2048Megabytes said:
It is shocking to me that Intel decided to not go with a new processor socket for a new processor line. I like this information. Hopefully it ends up being true.
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Yes it is true. MSI have confirmed all of their Z68 and H61 boards will support the 22nm chips and so too have Gigabyte:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21433

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With regards to the new chipset as well, it doesn't offer anything in the way of additional features over the current 6 series. Apart from all boards will have PCIe 3 support (or at least the chipset will allow it, whether manufacturers actually engineer it to take advantage of the technology is another matter. Budget boards may cut it out for a lower price), not much more is brought to the table, but even then, a lot of Z68 boards already have it there, just not in use yet. But even with the theoretical double speeds, PCIe 2.0 x8 isn't even being used fully yet, so it really isn't a game changer so far as I can see.

The only additional benefit will be performance, however chipset performance never really offers any huge noticable improvements, maybe a fraction of a second shaved from synthetic benches, so I don't particularly see the point in anyone with a Z68/H61 board which will support Ivy Bridge upgrading their mobo at all
 
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Aastii said:
Yes it is true. MSI have confirmed all of their Z68 and H61 boards will support the 22nm chips and so too have Gigabyte:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21433

=EDIT=

With regards to the new chipset as well, it doesn't offer anything in the way of additional features over the current 6 series. Apart from all boards will have PCIe 3 support (or at least the chipset will allow it, whether manufacturers actually engineer it to take advantage of the technology is another matter. Budget boards may cut it out for a lower price), not much more is brought to the table, but even then, a lot of Z68 boards already have it there, just not in use yet. But even with the theoretical double speeds, PCIe 2.0 x8 isn't even being used fully yet, so it really isn't a game changer so far as I can see.

The only additional benefit will be performance, however chipset performance never really offers any huge noticable improvements, maybe a fraction of a second shaved from synthetic benches, so I don't particularly see the point in anyone with a Z68/H61 board which will support Ivy Bridge upgrading their mobo at all
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The 590 uses, I believe, 9 lanes. But yeah, x32, like you said, is no game changer.
 
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