The end of the road for the DIY PC?

Date	2012-11-24 17:46 -0500
From	Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, comp.sys.intel, alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
Subject	The end of the road for the DIY PC?
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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

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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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
      Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2013-03-19 21:31 +0100
        Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Trent <none@dev.null.pissoff> - 2013-03-20 06:28 -0400
  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? "geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-11-24 23:09 -0500
    Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-11-25 18:47 +0000
      Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-25 22:51 -0500
  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Intel Guy <Intel@Guy.com> - 2012-11-24 23:14 -0500
  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2012-11-24 23:58 -0600
    Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? daytripper <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> - 2012-11-28 01:33 -0500
      Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2012-11-28 03:53 -0600
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          Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? "Chris S." <cside38@nospamverizon.net> - 2012-11-28 13:45 -0500
            Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-11-28 22:10 +0000
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            Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-11-29 16:58 +0000
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            Re: Re: Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? krw@att.bizzz - 2012-11-29 00:05 -0500
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  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com> - 2012-11-29 12:51 -0800
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        Re: Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Gerald Abrahamson <jerryab@visi.com> - 2012-12-02 10:55 -0600
          Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> - 2012-12-02 15:19 -0800
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  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 10:56 -0800
  Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? bruce56@topmail.co.nz - 2012-12-08 00:27 -0800
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