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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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