Intel's Haswell May Be Last Interchangeable Desktop CPU?

[wevsspot]

"Have you upgraded your CPU and kept your motherboard? "

So many times I can't even count them all. But starting with socket A and everything since........................

[dr_bowtie]

So many times I can't even count them all. But starting with socket A and everything since........................

 

 

Same here... But I have also kept the same CPU and upgraded boards for better options

[Andrewr05]

I've had four on my curent board:

 

[*] An early Celeron

[*] A Pentium 4

[*] An E6600

[*] My current X3220

[freddie]

I think we should wait for some kind of official announcement from Intel before thinking too much about it.

 

Thats the worse thing they can do from a business perspective. Intentionally leaking things like this gives them an advantage and see what the responses would be like before actually saying anything.

[Onion]

Same here, granted one board broke.

 

Weird story for mine. I just tossed my old components into an htpc but kept the q6700 on my new board, and then I bought a q9450 and stuck with that. Dunno, still counts as 2 I guess.

[Master Binky]

From what I understand it was planned that the 14nm Broadwell chips would be a BGA set, and the generation after that would go back to having LGA options. Intel just testing the waters to see how bad their shrinkage would be

[d6bmg]

I've had four on my curent board:

 

[*] An early Celeron

[*] A Pentium 4

[*] An E6600

[*] My current X3220

 

And you might have a made a record with the number of processor changing.

[Guest_Jim_*]

And you might have a made a record with the number of processor changing.

No, I suspect Frank will have that

[Andrewr05]

And you might have a made a record with the number of processor changing.

At least number of changes with a drastic performance increase.

[dr_bowtie]

BGA cant be all that bad.... I mean the AMD Fusion stuff works very well... the E-300, E-350 and E-450 stuff is pretty hardy....

[DanTheGamer11]

BGA cant be all that bad.... I mean the AMD Fusion stuff works very well... the E-300, E-350 and E-450 stuff is pretty hardy....

 

That's if you don't want any improvements.. anyways they don't have true successors, just slight improvements, couple of Mhz here and there. Not to mention retailers selling it quite dearly

Edited November 28, 2012 by DanTheGamer11

[paulktreg]

The ATX standard in itself has probably lasted far longer than expected and maybe some sort of change is due, probably needed? The BTX standard was an attempt but nobody followed and it'll probably take one of the big boys like Intel to lead the way. Motherboards with the processor, memory and gpu all onboard? Things move on and I'm sure the ATX standard will become a thing of the past but when? Are Intel really concerned about PC enthusiasts, they are in the minority?