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Answer» So, Intel latest generation is 5th right?
The short answer to your questions is mostly NO. Intel is always MAKING new designs and it seems Intel has left the idea of incremental upgrades behind. Each new idea comes with a new socket. About the 5th generation: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/5th-gen-core-processor-family.html The link above is mostly just PR and provides no clue as to have hard nit will be for the motherboard makes to keep up with the new design. Officially, Intel's 5th generation is Broadwell however this is currently only available on Mobile and I am not aware of any plans to release desktop broadwell chips, so the next generation of Intel desktop chips is going to be Skylake.In regards to this question: Quote 2/Is there a motherboard which supports both socket 775 and the newest Intel CPU socket? AMD's are the only platform that I know of that currently design sockets that allow for older and newer such as the AM2+ which would take older AM2, AM2+, or newer AM3 CPU's. The latest AM3+ on AMD's product line can run a new 8-core or an old AM3 CPU. Its one of the reasons why I prefer AMD is because you can stretch the life of a CPU and Motherboard. There are pros and cons to stretching the life of a CPU and motherboard. Cons are mainly a bottleneck of using an old board with a new CPU in which there is a bottleneck such as with the PCI Express being older 1.0 BUS if not new enough to be 2.0, as well as using DDR2 memory with an AM3 CPU and yet you would get better performance if you had a new motherboard with DDR3 memory since the memory controller on the AMD CPU's support DDR2 and DDR3 on the AM3 CPUs to allow for the newer AM3 to work with an older AM2+ motherboard maxed out with 800Mhz DDR2. Con of using an older CPU with a new motherboard is mainly the fact that the CPU may be weak, so while you might now have USB3 and PCI Express 3.0, the CPU is now the bottleneck to performance. The pros being mainly an upgrade can be PERFORMED at a fraction of the cost by reuse of old parts for a newer build or newer CPU to stretch the life of the old motherboard. With exception to going back 20+ years ago with Intel's Interposer which allowed some systems running 486's to get upgraded to first gen Pentiums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive This is probably the main REASON why Intel dropped extending the life of motherboards. Quote Intel dropped the brand, as it failed to appeal to corporate buyers, and discouraged new system sales.DaveLembke, You made your point well. Here is a relevant video What AMD has over Intel Both Intel and AMD both have their advantages. This topic was someone asking about Intel CPUs, they said nothing about AMD, let's not go totally off topic here...Right. It was mentioned that AMD has tried to have one socket for different CPUs. Back to topic. Say one were to ban Intel motherboard with the i3 of family. Can one then upgrade to an i5 of that family with the same motherboard? Or the i7? Just asking Assuming they are on the same socket type then yes. For example, if I bought a new i3 4130 I could then replace it with an i7 4790k if I wanted to since they are from the same generation. Likewise I could replace an i3 2120 with a newer i7 3770k because, despite the different generations, the sockets are the same (You may need to update the BIOS). However, I would not be able to take a machine with an i3 2120 and replace it with an i7 4790k because the sockets are different. Intel generally change their socket every two generations. |
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