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| NNTP-Posting-Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:29:57 -0500 |
| From | "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com> |
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| Subject | Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? |
| Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:30:36 +0100 |
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"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:50b14e37$1@news.bnb-lp.com... > Intel has announced that they will stop making replaceable CPU's after > Haswell. From now on, all CPU's are supposed to be in BGA packaging, which > means you can only attach CPU's to the motherboard by soldiering them on. > You won't be seeing these in any home DIY's toolkit, so it's the end of > the road for that upgrade mechanism. > > I've been upgrading my original system since 1987, and right now there's > no original pieces remaining on it, but I can trace each of the pieces > back in a chain to the original 8088 PC-XT clone that I had bought back > then. I suppose it was meant to happen, not many people build their own > PC's anymore, and it's been cheaper to buy a full brand-new system for > many years now rather than upgrading it. > > Although this is just an Intel announcement, and AMD hasn't said it would > do the same thing, but I don't see AMD not following suit with this, it'll > help their financial situation too, and probably help them even more. > > I suppose you could keep upgrading if you buy a full new motherboard > alongside your CPU, you'd probably have to buy it with new memory also. > > Yousuf Khan Well you can always put them on a daughter board (like AMD Slot x board). I expect to see the main disk in Flash [usually] on the motherboard within five years and certainly in a slot (e.g. M-Sata or PCIe-3) Years ago disk controllers, I/O, video etc. all used to be on boards plugged into the main bus. I am currently nearing ordering up the bits for a new PC. There will not be any cards plugged in the bus. > > Intel’s Haswell Could Be Last Interchangeable Desktop Microprocessors - > Report - X-bit labs > http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20121122022244_Intel_s_Haswell_Could_Be_Last_Interchangeable_Desktop_Microprocessors_Report.html
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Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com> - 2014-07-31 20:30 +0100
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