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Yes, you bought them together, but you still bought them separately in the sense that you were not married to a particular CPU depending on the motherboard you
by bluedanieru 14y ago
Yes, you bought them together, but you still bought them separately in the sense that you were not married to a particular CPU depending on the motherboard you purchased (although it can restrict your option to varying degrees, of course). Now you are stuck.
The bigger worry is if they start to shut out third-party MB manufacturers. I don't get why the author of the article assumes they will, however.
- marshray 14y ago> Now you are stuck. Well, hopefully I will still have similar options as I would have chosen anyway. I.e., a reliable and performant combination of MB and CPU. > The bigger worry is if they start to shut out third-party MB manufacturers. I don't get why the author of the article assumes they will, however. Yeah, why would they want to harm their ecosystem partners like that? Last I checked, many of those Taiwanese firms are the same ones who were OEMing boards for the major desktop vendors.