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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.