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its the same socket 1151, but the pinout is different. According to intel because of different power requirements for hexacore and faster DDR4 rating.
by martin_bech 9y ago
its the same socket 1151, but the pinout is different. According to intel because of different power requirements for hexacore and faster DDR4 rating.
- r00fus 9y agoSure those are the technical reasons, but the real reason is to sell more mobos.
- undersuit 9y agoI'm sure they could have done that anyways. AMD kept backwards compatible sockets with the physically similar AM2, AM3 and AM3+, while increasing memory speeds, introducing new chipsets, and introducing their Hex cores. I would prefer the option to accidentally buy an old motherboard and have my CPU not work at optimal settings than Intel's solution where the CPU won't work at all even though it fits.