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Note the skull in between the PCIe and PCI slots.
Note the skull in between the PCIe and PCI slots.
In the fourth quarter of this year Intel's Nehalem family will be introduced and as that three month period is closing in fast, more info about the processors and platforms is coming up. After the couple of CPU pictures, motherboards are now in the spotlight with an early Bloomfield board being pictured just below. Bloomfield will be release in Q4 together with the Nehalem server parts and it will be a triple DDR3 channel-supporting high-end workstation/gaming system platform.
As you can see in the pictures the Bloomfield motherboard has a 1366-pin socket, four DDR3-1333 slots, three of which being colored blue to signal the tri-channel support and two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, likely bringing CrossFire to Intel's platform. The only heatsink installed is the one covering the ICH10 southbridge while the Tylersburg NB is left 'naked'. Also, you can see the lack of IDE connectors but six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports and an oddly-placed MOLEX connector. Since Bloomfield is still some 6 months or more away this board should be considered an early sample with the 'best' being still to come.