future-proof intel?

[Kye]

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041018_115001.html

Intel will continue using the LGA775 packaging with Smithfield processors.

since the smithfield cpus will happily be on LGA775, and smithfield CPUs being the "new", and also will be around intil the end probably 2007...does this mean anyone with a :GA775 motherboard is sorted for life?

 

[floppybootstomp]

To futureproof, surely a system should be 64 Bit? I didn't see any mention of that in the article.

 

[Quadophile]

When it comes to computers nothing is future proof Go back in history and you will know why!

Besides, anything you buy today no matter how advanced becomes obsolete while you are negotiating for it.

 

[muckshifter]

does this mean anyone with a :GA775 motherboard is sorted for life?

Yes indeed ... sorted, for the life of the motherboard ... until the next new thing comes along.

Sorry Kye, we just know how the "sales blurb" goes ... AMD nicked a feather out of Intel's cap and Intel are the one playing "catch-up" ... it looks to me as though it's going to take them (Intel) a couple of years to succeed.

Just my honest opinion.

 

[ChristopherP]

software will get so advanced that LGA775 will become obsolete and they will move onto socket "X" and there will be a hoohaa about woohoo socket "X" then... i dont even need to say it.

everything will become obsolete

 

[muckshifter]

everything will become obsolete

I hope not I just grow older with time.

 

[Quadophile]

I hope not I just grow older with time.

If you take the Ice Age man into consideration we sure are not obsolete after all these years.

Can you think of a processor or a mobo from today few thousand years later being discovered? I bet no one would recognise it