"LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No Joke" ?

[gandolf]

Interesting!
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1049/

And
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17617

[Sheograth]

According to anandtech the sockets dont "break" that easily.

[Sheograth]

and they guy who wrote that at overclockers.com just seems bitter about something...maybe his cat died?

[Kunaak]

from what I seen of the sockets myself, they just dont give the same level of confidence that thier 478 counterparts use to.
they aren't as fragile as to say 20 removals of the CPU and it's dead, but it's definatly not as robust as regular CPU's.

given alittle caution, and common sense I dont see why a LGA socket couldn't last for years...

but personally, I would rather have just seen them use pinned CPU's from the start.

the 10% limit can be easily bypassed, just avoid the 915 and 925 boards.
they are pretty much a joke anyways, a good 875T seems to be the best solution, unless you want PCI EX.

but the good news is, both Nvidia, ATI, and Via are all designing thier own chipsets for the 775, hopefully one of them are better then these crappy 900 series motherboards.

[bypolar]

The fact is is the socket is easly damaged by user insertion of the processer.

This has no meaning for OEM users but the Enthusiast it might have a a draw back on the 20th or so Processer replacement.


I for one have only kept a board for no more than 5 processers any how so it seems like no big deal.

[Sheograth]

im bout to buy a 3.4E, and considering its the only 775 procesor ill own (and for a while) I will probably be installing it once, and leaving it there till I get a new mobo or new processor.

[Xassius]

from what I seen of the sockets myself, they just dont give the same level of confidence that thier 478 counterparts use to.
they aren't as fragile as to say 20 removals of the CPU and it's dead, but it's definatly not as robust as regular CPU's.

given alittle caution, and common sense I dont see why a LGA socket couldn't last for years...

but personally, I would rather have just seen them use pinned CPU's from the start.

the 10% limit can be easily bypassed, just avoid the 915 and 925 boards.
they are pretty much a joke anyways, a good 875T seems to be the best solution, unless you want PCI EX.

but the good news is, both Nvidia, ATI, and Via are all designing thier own chipsets for the 775, hopefully one of them are better then these crappy 900 series motherboards.

What?!?!?!? DDR2 + i925xe = super uberness

335+ FSB on my p5ad2-e easily. DDR2 pwns :)

[Kanavit]

yeah, i am old school. I loved having pins on the cpu. it's been that way forever. it so hard to accept big changes im not use to. The new 64-bit xeons still use pinned sockets afaik, and so does the Dothan. so , the new LGA 775 pinless design may seem unecessary to me. Maybe this will help intel save money on bent pins, because now they are alot more of them!

[Sheograth]

now if the pins get bent, the mobo manufacturer is gonna have to deal with the RMA instead of Intel.

[Xassius]

now if the pins get bent, the mobo manufacturer is gonna have to deal with the RMA instead of Intel.

rather RMA a 200 dollar mobo than a 600 dollar cpu

[Xerxes]

except the big ones like asus charge $60 to fix a 775 socket if it has bent pins. Intel is the only one i know of that will replace 775 boards that have bent pins under warranty at no extra charge.