Say goodbye to CPU upgrading and life as we know it!

[OuBoet]

Good afternoon gents and ladies,

I hope everyone is sitting down. Intel is planning to solder their cpu's to motherboards again starting with Broadwell (intel's 14nm cpu after haswell that launches next year). I was so shocked to read it that no FPGA or form factor any more but BGA (ball grid array). The article will be much clearer than my eclectic chicken scratch so please read further there. What do you guys think about this?

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/26/i...cs-go-with-it/

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel...e-309212.shtml

[Crzwaco]

So intel only or AMD as well?

[Glordit]

So, we'll see a 10% increase of performance like most intel CPU releases.

[JP'S]

Then I'm switching over to amd as much as I hate there cpu's this is just pushing it no cpu upgrades? Lawl good joke intel

[OuBoet]

Looks like AMD will become THE enthusiast platform!

[Isengard]

Well to be fair, every time Intel launches a new line they change the bloody socket so you need a new motherboard anyway.

[Cobalt]

There seems to be little mention of AMD. They also make CPUs. Surely they will continue to compete and in that way form partnerships with other mobo companies like Asus.

How is the enthusiast market dead if amd still makes non socketed CPUs

The article reads a tad dramatically

[Glordit]

Well to be fair, every time Intel launches a new line they change the bloody socket so you need a new motherboard anyway.

Yes yes, let stake a look LGA775, LGA1156, LGA1155... Just in recent times alone.

[TBlaar]

I've never upgraded JUST a chip, I always get the main 3 components (mb, cpu, ram) so not sure if this is a bad thing... In fact, now when your PC is full of shit, you can pretty much say "here my cpuboard is not working" and there's no blame game of "it's the mb, OR it's the cpu" from the respe4ctive manufacturers.

[The Joker]

Yes yes, let stake a look LGA775, LGA1156, LGA1155... Just in recent times alone.

add to that 1366, 2011.

This is all complete rubbish an anyway, Don't worry guys, this isn't happening any time soon and if it does it'll only affect the OEM and small office machine markets.