ASUS May be using a "OC Socket" on select Z170 Motherboards

[WYP]

Rumor has it that ASUS will be using a special "OC Socket on their Z170 Skylake motherboards, which is said to improve power delivery and overclockabilty of LGA 1151 CPUs.



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[TheF34RChannel]

Thumbs up!

 

[Doomslayer]

Two thumbs up :lol:

 

[NeverBackDown]

Three thumbs up!...

I don't recall the OC socket on any board really improving anything. Now CPUs are limited more by there silicon than the boards. Funny how that's changed. Back on SandyBridge it required both a good board and some good silicon.. wasn't to long ago.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Three thumbs up!...

I don't recall the OC socket on any board really improving anything. Now CPUs are limited more by there silicon than the boards. Funny how that's changed. Back on SandyBridge it required both a good board and some good silicon.. wasn't to long ago.

It must do something, I can see them reverse engineering a socket and adding to it for no reason

That I've noticed having a P67!

 

[Kushiro]

Marketing would be a reason.

 

[Lazlo]

It must do something, I can see them reverse engineering a socket and adding to it for no reason

That I've noticed having a P67!

Why would they have to reverse egineer it. It's "just" a cpu socket. I would assume they get the exact specifications from Intel. Considering that Intel does not actually manufactures the sockets.

 

[SuB]

I thought the 'OC' Sockets were just the upgraded sockets that Intel hadn't released the spec for, for the 'tock' cycle of the socket? So instead of getting the 'tick' socket, you get like a tick.2 socket that you would normally get when they 'tock' the revision over for the other half of the release?

I always believed they were literally just some extra pins that weren't in the original spec for the socket in the tick, but intel would release the spec for when they start producing the second half of the release in the 'tock'.

(sorry, lots of tick tock but you get what I mean)

 

[MrKambo]

the 2011 Asus boards use the 'OC Socket' seems to benefit the CPU, so im down for more stuffs for more powers!

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Why would they have to reverse egineer it. It's "just" a cpu socket. I would assume they get the exact specifications from Intel. Considering that Intel does not actually manufactures the sockets.

Wasn't it in a ttl X99 video where he said Asus had to reverse engineer it because Intel wouldn't give them the details on what pin does what?

 

[Excalabur50]

I thought the 'OC' Sockets were just the upgraded sockets that Intel hadn't released the spec for, for the 'tock' cycle of the socket? So instead of getting the 'tick' socket, you get like a tick.2 socket that you would normally get when they 'tock' the revision over for the other half of the release?

I always believed they were literally just some extra pins that weren't in the original spec for the socket in the tick, but intel would release the spec for when they start producing the second half of the release in the 'tock'.

(sorry, lots of tick tock but you get what I mean)

LOLZ careful SuB you're sounding like a clock......I know I know don't wind you up but we get what you mean

 

[Lazlo]

Wasn't it in a ttl X99 video where he said Asus had to reverse engineer it because Intel wouldn't give them the details on what pin does what?

I don't know. But if you think about it. Even if they get the socket from a supplier they have to solder it to the mainboard they have designed. Therefore they have to know which pin goes where. Basically I would recon you can't design a mainboard around a socket that is a black box to you if you consider the fact that the socket basically just connect the pins of the cpu to the motherboard. As far as I know it doesn't include any active components, but I might be wrong there.