LGA 1156 is a very dead platform then?

[DanceswithUnix]

Seem to have landed a freebie i3 and RAM (yay!), but the motherboard is for a server so thought I would see if I could get a cheap and better targeted for my use consumer one. Guess I now know why it was being thrown out, quick poll of the usual suspects threw up nothing.

Guess any 1156 motherboards have to be picked up from ebay these days?

[shaithis]

Indeed they do, I would be surprised if you found any shop selling them....or if you did there would probably be a large premium for the (very) old stock. 1155 released early 2011 and 1156 was phased out almost overnight.

[DanceswithUnix]

Indeed they do, I would be surprised if you found any shop selling them....or if you did there would probably be a large premium for the (very) old stock. 1155 released early 2011 and 1156 was phased out almost overnight.

Yeah, as a cheapskate I am used to buying AMD kit. You can still get a Socket-A board on ebuyer should you really want one (can't imagine why). Was just a bit of a shock to find nothing rather than just limited choice.

Hope I can get this board working then, complete with two network ports and lack of stuff like integrated sound. Think I have an old sound card somewhere though.

[Judge888]

Pretty standard practice with Intel, however 1156 was phased out very quickly! Not to mention its uptake wasnt huge so the second hand availabilty of it isnt quite so good as the previous 775 socket was.

[scaryjim]

... You can still get a Socket-A board on ebuyer should you really want one (can't imagine why). ...

Because the mighty Duron 900 is still a great processor

Actually, last time I built up a machine with one (was testing some mobos I'd bought to put resale bundles together), it was fine for desktop & word processing. Then I tried to watch an episode of Time Team on 4OD. It made a slide show look fluid

But yeah, s1156 is basically ebay or refurb sellers now. I suppose you might find the odd industrial board around (although it sounds like you've already got one of those!) - and it's maybe worth checking CEX too. 1156 had a really short life span as it was kind of a stop-gap while Intel moved from northbridge to on-die controllers - 1156 was the transition sovcket where they put the northbridge on-package but not on-die. I strongly suspect they could've kept 1156 for all of the next 4 generations of parts, mind you, but where would the obscene profit be in that

[ik9000]

Because the mighty Duron 900 is still a great processor

Actually, last time I built up a machine with one (was testing some mobos I'd bought to put resale bundles together), it was fine for desktop & word processing. Then I tried to watch an episode of Time Team on 4OD. It made a slide show look fluid

But yeah, s1156 is basically ebay or refurb sellers now. I suppose you might find the odd industrial board around (although it sounds like you've already got one of those!) - and it's maybe worth checking CEX too. 1156 had a really short life span as it was kind of a stop-gap while Intel moved from northbridge to on-die controllers - 1156 was the transition sovcket where they put the northbridge on-package but not on-die. I strongly suspect they could've kept 1156 for all of the next 4 generations of parts, mind you, but where would the obscene profit be in that

they totally could have. There have been working demos of a 1155 chip running on 1156 with some jiggery pokery tech stuff inbetween and vice versa. It was purely Intel being gits.

[scaryjim]

ISTR this is true of a number of chipset/socket combinations, and it's not just Intel at fault. For instance, I'm pretty ASRock did an AM2 board based off an old s939 ATI chipset back in the day, and I know there were some AM3 socket motherboards based on the old AM2 NForce 430 chipsets. And of course there's the whole furore about the only partial compatibility of AM2/2+/3/3+, and the rapidly ditched FM1 platform where there was no obvious need to change the socket between Llano and Trinity.

Of course, Intel have been particularly profligate with CPU sockets since they canned s775 - I count 5 different sockets in that time - but AMD certainly aren't blameless, and we're likely to see more changes in the next year or so as chipsets start moving over to DDR4 memory and AMD try to get their high-end desktop strategy back on course after a somewhat fallow period.

[hb904460]

Quick check on skinflint shows a few models:

http://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=mbp4_1156

[DanceswithUnix]

ISTR this is true of a number of chipset/socket combinations, and it's not just Intel at fault. For instance, I'm pretty ASRock did an AM2 board based off an old s939 ATI chipset back in the day, and I know there were some AM3 socket motherboards based on the old AM2 NForce 430 chipsets. And of course there's the whole furore about the only partial compatibility of AM2/2+/3/3+, and the rapidly ditched FM1 platform where there was no obvious need to change the socket between Llano and Trinity.

Of course, Intel have been particularly profligate with CPU sockets since they canned s775 - I count 5 different sockets in that time - but AMD certainly aren't blameless, and we're likely to see more changes in the next year or so as chipsets start moving over to DDR4 memory and AMD try to get their high-end desktop strategy back on course after a somewhat fallow period.

I wasn't having a go at Intel (for once), just surprised that parts had gone rare and expensive. To me, anything with DDR3 is modern

[LenMargaux]

LGA 1156? That's like years ago. But I still see some local stores selling it here.

[Wow MR Wolf]

LGA 1156 is still alive? Wow didn't think they would be still selling them at some places.

[DanceswithUnix]

LGA 1156 is still alive? Wow didn't think they would be still selling them at some places.

There will always be a market for people who for some reason or other have to keep an old machine going.

I managed to get an LGA 1155 Xeon though, motherboards are really cheap still for those