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Answer» Intel rumored moving to non-upgradable desktop CPUs with Broadwell My brother told me about this the other day. Its a stupid move to make CPU/Motherboards a 1 piece upgrade. So much waste! Laptops have been pretty much this way for years, even if CPU was removable unlocking it from the socket, very few people would upgrade a CPU in a laptop. I have always liked the ability to use a motherboard through a few generations of processors, and this would kill that pro feature if both AMD and INTEL both went with this setup. My current motherboard on my main system is a Biostar MCP6PB M2+ and it has lasted through "3 CPU performance upgrades", a single core AMD Athlon AM2 CPU, an AMD Athlon II x2 Dual-core AM3, and more recently a AMD Athlon II x4 AM3 Quadcore. My system now can go with a faster CPU, but its not worth it because I am running DDR2 800Mhz RAM, and so the AM3 CPU with SUPPORT for both DDR2 and DDR3 is running on a slower memory setup, and the next upgrade should be an AM3+ to migrate my AM3 quadcore forward and have support for both DDR3 and newer CPU upgrade of the future is I decide to stick with this motherboard. *To me it seems as though the smaller board manufacturers would be cut off and a monopoly would happen between Intel and the choice board manufacturers. And it would drive sales of computers from HP etc as for do it yourself upgrades might not be that affordable and as much of a bargain to save money as they once use to be since you are no longer just upgrading the CPU, but now also the entire motherboard. So on LOWER end CPU's your looking at a cost INCREASE of at least $100 per upgrade overtop what prior upgrades use to cost because the you are having to buy the pair CPU/Motherboard as 1 unit. While I do think that the Atom processors coming on Intel motherboards make sense, I dont believe this is a smart move for the future of Intel and its customers for their entire product line. Hoping AMD will stick with upgradability as they always have, as for if they do so, gamers and people like myself who have to constantly buy newer and faster, but want the best deal for their money will be flooding over to them and their sales would thrive as Intel will only be able to sell boards that business applications would use that plan on running them for 3 to 5 years and throwing them away even though they function properly. A serious gamer would have to throw away a motherboard and CPU out every 12 to 18 months to stay up with performance if they went with Intel and this hardware merger. Lastly even though AMD is pushing APU's and i am not that excited about them as for I still like the seperation between CPU and GPU for upgradability and flexability of choice hardware combinations. I dont believe the APU is as bad as a CPU/Motherboard Merger/Monopoly! At least with the APU's you still have choices, Intel takes away your choices with this setup. I use to buy only Intel until 2003, and made the move to AMD in LATE 2003 with Athlon XP 2800+ 2.08Ghz, and pretty much stuck with them. I have bought some Intel CPU's when the prices were a bargain etc, and got a lot of Intels for free from crashed systems, but I have stuck with AMD for 90+% of my computing because the price/performance comparison has always SEEMED like the best bang for the buck as well as I really liked when they went with AM2+ and AM3+ sockets that allow for upgradability without motherboard upgrades required. At the time of buying my AM2+ motherboard in late 2008 I paid $65 on a newegg deal, a single-core AM2 CPU and motherboard. I then got a cheap AM2+ dual-core 2 years later for like $40 and then lucked out getting a quadcore AM3 for free from a friend about 18 months ago when he cooked his integrated GPU on his HP and needed to replace his motherboard and even though I told him he could keep the same CPU, he decided he wanted the Phenom II x6, so I offered to buy this quadcore for ( $50 ) ... 50% of what it retailed for online and he said you can have it free since I helped him rebuild his HP with the new motherboard and CPU. I can only hope that AMD sticks with removable CPU's! |
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