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Why do Intel change socket type?

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I can't get my head round when Intel changes socket type so often? Do they have to? I could understand why they might do it if they were the motherboard manufacturer also (to sell. More motherboards). But they aren't. Surely this hurts their CPU sales changing socket type? I mean, if it were the same socket. I would. Probably have bought a 6700k by now. But as I need a new mobo and ram also. I'm leaving it a couple generations.

Maybe they are forced to? But I would have thought it would be in their best interest to keep the same socket going as long as possible.
 
Basically, it's so they can support new features without having to bolt-on 3rd party controllers to motherboards and drive up the costs of those boards.

Haswell doesn't have a DDR4 memory controller for example. So they'd have had to do some kind of Frankenstein motherboard setup to allow Haswell to use DDR4.
 
They sell enough of each CPU generation to make an insane profit, so have no inclination to stick to the same socket for years on end.

Motherboards are cheap as chips, so this is an non issue IMO. DDR4 is also cheap as hell.
 
They don't. Besides which, because it's necessary to accommodate changes to power delivery and such. These are the types of questions for people taking 6 figure sums home to answer.
 
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Intel change their sockets more often than my OH changes her knickers :D

As a cynical old b-stard I would have to say it is all about money, why would they re-use the same socket when by changing it forces an upgrade.
My mate owns an electronics business (making PCB's and equipment) and he told me about planned obsolescence.
Why would a company build a device that lasts 15 years when they can build substandard crap that fails within 5 years, generating yet more sales.
It is no wonder that most warranty's are a mere 12 months and even if you buy an extended warranty you are lucky to get 4 years.

I am old enough to remember hardcore built electronics, I still have the 24" CRT TV my family had from the 80's in my shed, it still works perfectly, but without a set-top box, digital tuner & the fact it is 4:3 makes it obsolete.
It still functions perfectly.
My mate who owns an electronics company claimed (and this is his claim ) that Samsung are well known for using resistors & capacitors of the 'wrong' rating to ensure a device will only last a set amount of time :eek:
 
People seem to forget that AMD went from socket 754 and then to 939 soon after and again changed to AM2 which was only a extra pin. Intel kept 775 for years. I don't have a problem with it because we get all the latest features. With the tiny performance gains in recent generations pc's are lasting longer anyway so what's the problem? At least the cooler holes have been kept to the same spacing so you can reuse coolers.
 
Intel make money selling the chipset's (x99 z170 etc) to manufacturers' of motherboards so do make money of motherboard sales.

New motherboards' allow for new IO and Intel keep playing with things like voltage regulator's and memory channels requiring new sockets
 
Yeah idd, theyre free to make drastic changes to the chip when ever new technology/features come out without having to worry about old boards supporting it, so new chips come with new boards and chipsets.

Oh and ofc for the ££££$$$$$£££££
 
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$$$ really.

e.g. The z97 boards got nvme bios's but the z87 didnt, asus even said there was no technical reason other than intel refusing to allow it.

I dont consider £100 as cheap as hell to be honest, thankfully cpu's last a fair few years for most people, people even seem to upgrade for chipset features rather than the cpu's themselves e.g. pcie v3, m2 etc.
 
Caracus2k said:
Intel make money selling the chipset's (x99 z170 etc) to manufacturers' of motherboards so do make money of motherboard sales.

New motherboards' allow for new IO and Intel keep playing with things like voltage regulator's and memory channels requiring new sockets
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Exactly this.
 
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