This feels like the only time a CPU was actually non-fuckuppable.

Why can't we come up with a better, more user-friendly socketing system?

>try not being a spaz with sensitive electronics

How about having things that have less points of failure?

>>105692004 (OP)
Yeah but then they can't solder in the pins and make it non-upgradable.

>>105692004 (OP)
>complaining about problems that don't exist
welcome to /g/ - Technology

but they did
in the days of DIP chips you could plug them in the wrong way around, but i haven't seen a ZIF socket cpu that could be inserted the wrong orientation due to asymmetrical pin layouts

>>105692112
The problem is the pins themselves are made to be easily damageable. They're small and sensitive to lateral forces.

>>105692288
sure, but that was only an issue with 386/486 chips, after DIP so they were square, but before ZIF so they required you press them in. those i can understand. but ZIF? LGA? i don't see it. if it doesn't drop in flat on it's own it's the wrong way around, no need to use any force (it's literally in the name for ZIF: Zero Insertion Force)
pic related, a 486 socket, is one i could agree with you on. looking at it again it doesn't appear to be asymmetrical either, i don't remember them being able to go in the wrong way, but i never got them the wrong way so i suppose i just never noticed. they're pretty clearly labelled which way around they go, and anyone who's spent hundreds on a new cpu is going to be extra careful with it

>>105692004 (OP)
let me guess
you fucked up a CPU socket because your autistic brain wasn't paying attention

>>105692344
those bent pins could easily be fixed without issues.
>>105692503
that kind of stuff happens more often the what you think.
>you let lose the CPU falling into the socket, all pins bent up.
>your thermal paste dried up well now when you remove the cpu you will need a new motherboard because the pins bent over fully.
is not even funny how fragile current sockets are.

>>105692004 (OP)
everything used to be so simple

>>105692004 (OP)
Epyc sockets are pretty good.

>>105692004 (OP)
Come home, white man.

why dont we have optical connectors. we just need an array of microleds that blink in binary with optical receptors reacting to it.
what if you had some radioactive material that when excited with current let of some photons and visevera when hit with photons cause a current.
infact we should be using trinary or quadrary signaling with light in different spectrum like pam4

>>105693858
>why dont we have optical connectors
more points of failure
more expensive

because trace lengths and cooling. we're already at the point where we can't have socketed ram anymore.

>>105692004 (OP)
Slockets sucked. You could only have a shitty little fan on the CPU. No one missed them. Heat-spreaderless Athlons and PIII would have also been something you would have cried about, since someone like you would have busted your CPU die while installing it.

>>105692612
>your thermal paste dried up well now when you remove the cpu you will need a new motherboard because the pins bent over fully
What the fuck are you talking about? Thermal paste doesn't go on the pins. Also none of the even remotely decent and remotely modern pastes dry up in any reasonable amount of time, not even Arctic Silver from 10+ years ago or something.

>>105695677
Why wouldn't you be able to have whatever huge ass fan attahed on top of the heatsink if you wanted? It's not like the TDP was over 25 watts or something anyways, most often the flow from the PSU was enough to cool it anyways. If you bought the boxed piece of shit with riveted-in minimal heatsink and jet engine -like fan, your bad.

>>105692004 (OP)
the threadripper sled thing fixes 99% of the issue with lga

>>105692004 (OP)
slot type cpus suffer from practical limitations on pin count, you look at a ddr ram stick and it has 288 pins, sockets these days are on the 1200+ range, so imagine how long such a slot would be

>>105695989
Just put the ram slots on the back side of the CPU carrier then.

>>105692004 (OP)
I've installed a dozen CPUS of all types, and even pulled an AMD PGA cpu out while trying to remove the cooler, yet I've never bent a single pin.
You have to be legitimately tarded to bend pins.
Now soldering 0402 SMD components, THAT needs a steady hand.

>>105693858
We do, it's called Toslink.

>>105692004 (OP)
Jews hate simplicity. They want everything complex so that they can monetize on it.
That is why they are hiring pajeets that will make everything shit and then ask you to pay more for a less shitty experience.