Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
Forced upgrade stuff has always been around. Besides, more pins are physically needed for some newer processors.
But i think its more to that. i5's 1156 mobo's are cheap and several mobo makes would be quite unhappy with that. A socket change will force the customer to get a new mobo resulting in profit to the mobo maker. So you have profits coming from 1156 mobo and 1155 mobo.

Ahhh maybe its not so but now-a-days everything seems like a conspiracy to me