I AM REALLY PISSED AT THIS! I just bought a 3770k just a couple months ago and was excited about it. I bought a brand new Motherboard with the 1155 slot specifically so I could keep up to date with the latest processor sockets in 1155. Now they come out with a new model i7 ALREADY and have ALREADY CHANGED THE SOCKET AGAIN TO 1150? It is such an asshole move and it makes buying motherboards with "longer lifespans" pointless to the enthusiast gamer............
I am pretty chill actually! 😃 I am just heavily expressing my views. In all honesty the thing that aggravates me in this business is that they play off the idea that they make all these new inventions on a yearly basis. When in actuality two things happen. The first being that they were already long aware of the "new" technology (such as Haswell) during the release of the three series processors. The second thing they do is slightly change new technology from previous technology when they can't really come up with an upgrade and sell it off as "better." The differences between some new and "old" technology are very unimportant at times and has more to do with sales. Such CONSTANTLY changing socket sizes so people have to buy new boards as well. Profit.
Then why is government (and sometimes military) computer technology on average always 10 years ahead of the civilian populations products if some improvements aren't pre-planned. Many engineers at boeing and NASA (in the family and otherwise) agree from their experiences that processing power that we receive, such as the i7's at 4.7GHz + was the same technological processing power they were at roughly ten and sometimes fifteen years ago..
I don't simply think so. But at the same time do you think a nuclear missile has the capability to pinpoint its drop within a 10 meter radius while constantly adapting to environmental variables all on its own without processing ability beyond what we currently possess in the public? I know the example is a bit extreme but its case in point.
