LGA 2017-A

[BrandonTheCat]

I was shopping for a motherboard, and I came across 2 articles that talked about ASUS Releasing the X99-E WS and how it had 6 extra pins from the standard 2011 socket.

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Skylake-CPUs-Will-Debut-in-July-2015-LGA-2017-A-Socket-Already-Out-458610.shtml

 

       "The name has not been confirmed yet, but it probably will be in the near future. It stems from it being an LGA 2011-3 socket with six       extra pins.

We actually looked into this matter a few days ago, when it came to our attention that ASUS' workstation board boasts this unusual pin count.

Since then, we have learned that ASUS added them so that Xeon Haswell-EP CPUs (and, in 2015, Skylake) would also be compatible with it, in addition to Haswell-E Core i7 Extreme Edition.

The “official” reason for the socket pin count is that it adds stability, but the real one is that the mainboard would have had too short a lifespan (9 months) if the socket wasn't modified for extra support. Future-proofed as it were. Hence the so-called LGA 2017-A socket."

 

An interesting note is that the ASUS X99-E WS is the only ASUS mainboard that appears on both the company's consumer and commercial websites right now. And a commercial board cannot afford to become obsolete in just 9 months.

 

Does this seem a little bit odd? And would you think this is true? The Pinouts help with stability of overclocking right?

[X1XNobleX1X]

This has been known for a while now (Article posted 12th of September 2014), boards such as the Rampage V Extreme, X99- Deluxe and WS motherboard have more pins, to improve overclocking stability. Gigabyte has now adopted the socket as well. @BrandonTheCat

 

Quick video talking about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqhlDu4WIg

[Delusional Phil]

if that is true , is the price for LGA  2011 going down ? 

[NumLock21]

All Asus x99 boards has extra pins. They call it the oc socket.