• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    As a person that generally buys either mid-tier stuff or the flagship products from a couple years ago, it got pretty fucking ridiculous to have to figure out which socket made sense for any given intel chip. The apparently arbitrary naming convention didn’t help.

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      It wasn’t arbitrary, they named them after the number of pins. Which is fine but kinda confusing for your average consumer

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        Which is a pretty arbitrary naming convention since the number of pins in a socket doesn’t really tell you anything especially when that naming convention does NOT get applied to the processors that plug into them.