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When will the Intel socket 775 get replaced

Yep, also why, imo they should stick to the socket as long as possible, this will open the possibility for for example p4 users to buy the most modern mobo, keep their p4 till an upgrade is really needed, then upgrade to a newer s775 cpu...

Imo backward cpu support is always good, will open possiblity's if someone can't upgrade something all at once...
 
simonnance said:
in their opinion they should change as often as possible to force people to buy new motherboards and CPUs!
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They do that already by making new cpu's wich can't work on old chipsets...
 
Yep, not sure how much of it is planned or just lack of foresight, S370 had about 3 types at least, Socket 423 went dead quickly, Socket 478 had older chipset FSB and later on Prescott problems and Socket T so far has had Core 2 support issues with chipsets and voltage. To be frank though, i'd prefer to get a newer board to support a newer cpu as more often than not the chipsets and tech of the last generation would not give the newer cpu enough to perform to full potential.
 
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As made clear in my 1st post in this thread, intel would make a good step keeping backward support by staying on this socket, as it would allow people to upgrade per step, ie 1st get a new mobo with a new feature, ddr3 for example, while keep working with an old p4, and later get a nice shiney quadcore or peryn or whatever when they get more money...

I mean if there is no real reason to upgrade socket, like performance limitations, I really hope intell sticks to this socket. :)
 
I think the 775 socket will be with us a couple more years at least. They'll just keep making revision to it. They've gone from single to quad cores on the same socket so I would expect there's still some life left in it.
 
snowdog said:
As made clear in my 1st post in this thread, intel would make a good step keeping backward support by staying on this socket, as it would allow people to upgrade per step, ie 1st get a new mobo with a new feature, ddr3 for example, while keep working with an old p4, and later get a nice shiney quadcore or peryn or whatever when they get more money...

I mean if there is no real reason to upgrade socket, like performance limitations, I really hope intell sticks to this socket. :)
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I can't remember exactly but doesn't the new P35 socket drop support for the P4 (possibly official support?)
 
I've always upgraded my motherboard and cpu at the same time - I've never actually upgraded a cpu on its own (apart from an RMA replacement)! In fact thinking about it if Intel/AMD came out with an integrated mobo+cpu I might be interested if the cost savings and performance were worth it.

I think a lot of the motherboard changes tend to be very marginal improvements, and are as much hardware manufacturers scratching each other's backs as anything else.

For example, moves from AGP->PCI-E and DDR->DDR2 did not really give massive performance enhancements. The A64 platform has moved from S754->S939 without any major improvements; ok so you've got dual channel and a slightly boosted HTT but we are talking maybe 10% gain here. Dual core support was added later and probably could have been done on S754 if AMD had desired.

Likewise the switch to AM2 has left a lot of early S939 adopters in the lurch, given the inflated prices for modern cpus. Testing on hybrid boards has shown high-end DDR to be comparable in performance terms to all but the fastest DDR2. Comparisons between AGP and PCI-E have been even more negligible.
 
i never understood why the differant socket types and how they worked, is it supplying the voltage to the cpu or and connecting each pin to something else?
 
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