Intel LGA2011 Socket, X68 Express Chipset Photo

In other news, Zol.com.cn snagged a couple of photo's displaying Intel's new high-end CPU socket, the 2011-pin land grid array (LGA2011).

The new socket LGA2011 will allow 6, 8, or 12 cores per Core i7 processor, and quad-channel DDR3 memory controllers.

The new processor has four DDR3 memory channels, there's room for only one DIMM per channel on a typically-sized ATX motherboard. With this platform it seems Intel merged the northbridge component completely into the CPU package. A 32-lane PCI-Express controller is housed inside the CPU package. Anyway, have a peek of what seems to be an MSI product.

The photo's are a little iffy as apparantly everything but the socket had to be masked: