What would a re-unified AMD/Intel Socket design look like on paper??

[MadRat]

What would a re-unified AMD/Intel Socket look like on paper?

Perhaps a poll would best be in order, but I'd rather hear rampant speculation. Dream up your best AMD/Intel unified socket designs!

 

[carlosd]

Nevermind.

 

[SickBeast]

AMD has at least 4 sockets right now, and intel has at least 3. Unifying them all into a single socket would be impossible AFAIK. On top of that, they like having different sockets. It's their way of trying to control the world around them.

If I had to predict one...it would have tons of holes for pins so that they could just disable the ones they didn't want to use.

The whole socket thing really irritates me to be honest. Look at wall sockets for electricity. They have been around for decades, and maybe even longer. There *must* be a way to create a standardized CPU socket.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

For the record

intel has at least 8 sockets

P3 and older celeron (socket 370) (yes you can still buy these new)
Pentium M (modified socket 478)
P4 (socket 423,478 and lga775)
Xeon (socket 603 and 604)
Itanium/Itanium2. (don't know if they both use the same interface or not to tell you the truth)

AMD only has 4 sockets.

Athlon 32 bit series (socket A)
Athlon 64 bit series (socket 940,939, and 754)

There's really no way to unify socket design, it'd be like every car in the world having to use the same size wheels and tires.

Don't forget about Socket 423 for the P4...

I thought about that, but you can't buy them new anymore as far as I know, but I added it to the list none the same

 

[MDE]

Don't forget about Socket 423 for the P4...

 

[Acanthus]

Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot A...

 

[jhu]

well, it would look like a plastic thing with holes in it for the cpu pins.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot A...

they aren't being produced at all anymore afaik

 

[imported_smilingcrow]

Intel?s LGA 775 has thrown the spanner in the works of this wild idea. It?s just too different a design to be integrated with previous generation sockets.

There are some very good articles on why Intel moved to LGA 775 on the Inqurier?s website. The link below is to part 4, but if you look at the top of the page it has links to the other parts. It?s well worth a read if you want to understand Intel?s thinking behind this move. The move makes a lot of sense to me after reading the articles.

Intel's LGA 775: There's no conspiracy, folks