Should CPU/Sockets be colour coded?

[Blain]

Maybe instead of rectangular CPUs Intel should make them slightly trapezium shaped.

no

 

[bononos]

no

Why not, its idiot proof.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Or maybe, just maybe, some people will never pay attention regardless and always find a way to break something.

Buying a motherboard and a CPU with matching socket names isn't that hard. If you've already failed that simple first part, well...

 

[Blain]

Why not, its idiot proof.

Besides the fabrication problems, if people need shapes to stay on track, they shouldn't even be opening a case.

 

[jihe]

Besides the fabrication problems, if people need shapes to stay on track, they shouldn't even be opening a case.

I don't think fabrication will be much of a problem, you just flip the adjacent trapeziums and they line up perfectly in a straight line. It's just how they cut up the pcb.

 

[NTMBK]

There was some cool tech on show which enabled non-rectangular dies, or dies of multiple different shapes and sizes on one wafer: http://semiaccurate.com/2015/05/18/disco-makes-hexagonal-non-regular-chips-possible/ I think the hexagonal dies were the coolest.

 

[bigboxes]

Not for the first time I've seen someone horribly mangled the pins in their 115X motherboard by trying to force an incompatible CPU in. Now that Intel has been producing CPU's with extremely similar pin counts, (not to mention the horrible 2011, 2011-1, 2011-3 sockets), should Intel/Motherboard produces use colours so that red CPUs go into red sockets, blue into blue, etc?

I advise you to skip building your own pc. Buy a Dell.

 

[jihe]

There was some cool tech on show which enabled non-rectangular dies, or dies of multiple different shapes and sizes on one wafer: http://semiaccurate.com/2015/05/18/disco-makes-hexagonal-non-regular-chips-possible/ I think the hexagonal dies were the coolest.

The shape of the die doesn't really matter as it'll be soldered onto the substrate anyway. It's just how they cut up the substrate, which is trivial to implement.

 

[Blain]

The answer to your queries are still... No to color & trapezoid shape.

The color and shape of CPU sockets addresses only one component of a PC.
There are many other points at which an idiot could screw up a build.
Not to denigrate pre-built buyers (everyone has their own reasons for purchasing), but idiots should not be building computers, they should be buying them from Dell, Lenovo, Apple, etc.

 

[jihe]

The answer to your queries are still... No to color & trapezoid shape.

The color and shape of CPU sockets addresses only one component of a PC.
There are many other points at which an idiot could screw up a build.
Not to denigrate pre-built buyers (everyone has their own reasons for purchasing), but idiots should not be building computers, they should be buying them from Dell, Lenovo, Apple, etc.

Yes but most other stuff ups won't destroy their motherboard.

 

[Rakehellion]

Plenty of Internet in Latam countries and Africa. If people got a PC, they are very likely to have internet access as well one way or the other. You be surprised how far ahead some African countries for example is on stuff like mobile payments.

75% of household in America have home internet. In some countries it's more like 5%. Most people in India don't even have indoor plumbing.

 

[MrTeal]

75% of household in America have home internet. In some countries it's more like 5%. Most people in India don't even have indoor plumbing.

Again though, how many of those people without internet and indoor plumbing in India are building their own computers?