How do intel motherboards and socket work?

[AndreiArgeanu]

I've always had a dilema with intel chipsets and sockets as for me they never seemed easy to understand compared to AMD chipsets and board which to me make much more sense.

Like for example 3rd gen intel processors support fclga1151 but so do 7th gen intel processors, so how would I know the difference. It's difficult to describe what I don't know to be honest.

But like for AMD I know that AM3 and AM3+ boards support like most fx cpus, AM4 boards support most ryzen cpu's depending on chipset.

 

Basically I need an explanation on how the intel sockets and chipsets are different and what not because I can't seem to get it.

 

Edit: also what is the compaitibility like which generation intel processors work with which chipsets

[Jurrunio]

Think of 8th gen, 9th gen and 300 series chipset boards from Intel as using "LGA1151v2". As for Celerons and Pentiums with different naming schemes than the Core series, check if they are Coffee Lake / Coffee Lake Refresh (LGA1151v2) or not.

 

In that sense Ryzen's naming scheme is even worse for their APUs. 2nd gen APU is based on 1st gen Ryzen, 3rd gen APU is not Zen 2.

[Fasauceome]

10 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Like for example 3rd gen intel processors support fclga1151

They actually are on LGA 1155. The generations go by pairs, but the last 2 generational pairs have had the same socket

 

core 2 series, early pentiums: 775

first gen core series (i7 860, i5 720, etc): 1156

second and third gen (i7 2600k, i5 3570K, etc): 1155

fourth and nigh unreleased fifth gen (i7 4770k, i7 5775C, etc): 1150

sixth and seventh gen (i5 6600K, i3 7350K, etc): 1151

eighth and ninth gen (i7 8086K, i9 9900K, etc): 1151 v2

 

then there are HEDT following a similar pattern, from LGA 771 (sorta) to 1366 to 2011 to 2011-3 to 2066, so they reused sockets in both HEDT and consumer. they should have had an 1151-3 to follow the same pattern as their prior reuse of a socket.

[AndreiArgeanu]

6 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

They actually are on LGA 1155. The generations go by pairs, but the last 2 generational pairs have had the same socket

 

core 2 series, early pentiums: 775

first gen core series (i7 860, i5 720, etc): 1156

second and third gen (i7 2600k, i5 3570K, etc): 1155

fourth and nigh unreleased fifth gen (i7 4770k, i7 5775C, etc): 1150

sixth and seventh gen (i5 6600K, i3 7350K, etc): 1151

eighth and ninth gen (i7 8086K, i9 9900K, etc): 1151 v2

 

then there are HEDT following a similar pattern, from LGA 771 (sorta) to 1366 to 2011 to 2011-3 to 2066, so they reused sockets in both HEDT and consumer. they should have had an 1151-3 to follow the same pattern as their prior reuse of a socket.

Oh, okay doesn't seem that complicated now. Thanks for the explanation, I highly appreciate it.