Every two years or so, Intel changes their socket. I originally thought that this was for a better connection, but now with Haswell coming out, they are changing their socket to 1150. Why? I doubt CPU size matters, 5 connectors shouldn't mean anything, but why decrease and not increase?
probably because you then have to buy a new motherboard, therefore more profit is made.
Doesn't most of the profit go to the mobo manufacturers, or Intel for designing the chipset? I mean, who buys Intel mobos? It's not like they are [profanity="shit"]ty or anything but I think they just lack features.
Doesn't most of the profit go to the mobo manufacturers, or Intel for designing the chipset? I mean, who buys Intel mobos? It's not like they are [profanity="[profanity="shit"]"]ty or anything but I think they just lack features.
intel might get a small share of motherboard sale profits? Or, more likely, motherboard manufacturers pay intel to make new cpu's on a different socket.
on another note, why are intel cpu's getting bigger ? That's probably their secret to make them faster.
intel might get a small share of motherboard sale profits? Or, more likely, motherboard manufacturers pay intel to make new cpu's on a different socket.
Actually die size wise Intel CPUs are getting smaller.
Haswell is moving more things onto the CPU this required the sockets to accommodate for this. Often with small pin changes its just a minor change but it breaks compatibility so they just move some pins around to prevent confusion.
Since the chipset is on the motherboard and not integrated into the CPU, you need a socket change, otherwise people will be throwing Sandy Bridge processors in a motherboard that does not support SB's features.
Also less power consumption and better processing power, which sometimes means having the pins in certain areas do different things. Pin 0-5 might be the 12v CPU power on one socket, while on another it might not, for instance.
There's a LOT more to it than just "for the hell of it". Processors are very complex.
Doesn't most of the profit go to the mobo manufacturers, or Intel for designing the chipset? I mean, who buys Intel mobos? It's not like they are [profanity="shit"]ty or anything but I think they just lack features.
intel might get a small share of motherboard sale profits? Or, more likely, motherboard manufacturers pay intel to make new cpu's on a different socket.
Actually die size wise Intel CPUs are getting smaller.
Haswell is moving more things onto the CPU this required the sockets to accommodate for this. Often with small pin changes its just a minor change but it breaks compatibility so they just move some pins around to prevent confusion.
Since the chipset is on the motherboard and not integrated into the CPU, you need a socket change, otherwise people will be throwing Sandy Bridge processors in a motherboard that does not support SB's features.
Also less power consumption and better processing power, which sometimes means having the pins in certain areas do different things. Pin 0-5 might be the 12v CPU power on one socket, while on another it might not, for instance.
There's a LOT more to it than just "for the hell of it". Processors are very complex.