anon125:
can a quad be upgraded to a 6?
just insert a new chip?
probably way too expensive an idea.
Short answer?............... NO.
Currently we have socket 775 chips.
Nehalem (new CPU family) and Bloomfield (motherboard chipsets) will have 1366 pins (from my memory) .................... and the memory controller will be on-board ala AMD style ................... and tripple channel memory (ddr3 only?).
Intel is set to make a killing come next year as AMD still has effectively not even caught up with the current Q9xxx series CPUs