Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC?

From	Intel Guy <Intel@Guy.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, comp.sys.intel
Subject	Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC?
Date	2012-11-24 23:14 -0500
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Yousuf Khan wrote:

> 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,

My first PC (besides a couple pocket computers) was a real IBM PC circa
1983.  I upgraded that as much as I could over the 3 years (but never
had a hard drive) and my next PC in 1987 was a 24 mhz Harris-80286-based
motherboard made (IIRC) by Western Digital - with integrated MFM (or was
it RLL?) winchester controller.  I never did own any 386-based boards -
I moved directly to various 486 boards, and skipped the Pentium-1 and
instead owned various P2 and P3 boards (slocket, 370, etc).  Was never
into AMD.

Since I use Windows 98se (fortified with KernelEx) for my primary
systems - based on 2.x ghz socket-478 Pentium and Celeron CPU's.  I have
several Asrock/Via-based socket 775 boards waiting to be used as my
next-gen systems (still plan on running win-98 on them).  I build the
PC's at $dayjob and our developers have Gigabyte socket-775 boards with
4-core CPU's, nvidia 7k or 8k video cards with dual display, and don't
really need anything more.  They run Windoze 7 (some still run XP) and
we probably will never migrate those to Windoze 8 or beyond (those guys
will retire before windoze 7 becomes obsolete).  Heck, our NNTP and HTTP
servers still run on NT4 servers running on P2-800 Gigabyte Intel 440BX
motherboards - 24/7/365 for more than 10 years now.

For the general-purpose SOHO desktop, the socket 478 was a real work
horse for years, and the socket-775 didn't really seem to hang around
for long - but I seriously doubt that the average person (soho, or
institutional / corporate) needs more CPU (not counting portable use, or
gamers).

So basically I've been out of touch with motherboards since maybe
Q3-2007, but I seriously doubt I'm missing anything for the past 5 years
except that the boards are getting more colorful and have sick-looking
heat sinks.

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The end of the road for the DIY PC? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-11-24 17:46 -0500
  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-11-24 18:16 -0500
    Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? "geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-11-24 23:18 -0500
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