A few months from now, these products will be available off the shelves, which means that lots of motherboards manufacturers have both Tylersberg chipsets as well as Bloomfield processors already, for some fun-oriented probing. MSI was just kind enough to let us see what they actually look like and comment on their peculiarities.

The X58 turned out to be quite the bitch: even though it's made using a 65 nm process, it gets hotter than the current ones, the area you need to clear around the CPU is double what we're seeing now and you have to remember about those six memory slots for tri-channel configurations. Surely, changing the heatsink mounting system will be left for Mondays.

As for the Nehalem itself (tested here), I wouldn't pay much attention to those references about the octal version, because since it appeared on Intel's roadmap last year, it has sort of vanished. Maybe at the end of next year (2010 would be my bet) you'll be able to get one on your hands. So the one you see there is the eight threaded (four cores) CPU for the 1366 pin socket.

Link: Bit-tech.

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