LGA1151 vs FCLGA1151

[Festus32]

can you use the LGA1151 with the new coffee lake processers 

[Oshino Shinobu]

They're the same thing. FCLGA (Flip-Chip Land Grid Array) is the full name (the full acronym) for LGA. 

 

I guess a three letter acronyms sound and look better to consumers so they just use LGA most of the time. 

[Trulop]

5 minutes ago, Festus32 said:

can you use the LGA1151 with the new coffee lake processers 

Are you asking if you can use pre-existing LGA 1151 board with the new cpu's? if so then no. The new Coffee Lake CPU's can only be used on Z370 Chipset motherboards and are not backwards compatible with Z170/270 Motherboards unfortunately =/

[Festus32]

Just now, Trulop said:

Are you asking if you can use pre-existing LGA 1151 board with the new cpu's? if so then no. The new Coffee Lake CPU's can only be used on Z370 Chipset motherboards and are not backwards compatible with Z170/270 Motherboards unfortunately =/

Isn't that annoying thank you though.

[Trulop]

2 minutes ago, Festus32 said:

Isn't that annoying thank you though.

the problem is due to a bit of a change up in the layout of pins i think. They basically shot themselves in the foot a bit with how many people wont be willing toss away a Z170/270 board they just bought for the previous generation chips, just to buy a new one a year later. A bit unfortunate, but it had to be done to get the performance out of the new CPU's to make them an actual upgrade from prior chips.

[Festus32]

Just now, Trulop said:

the problem is due to a bit of a change up in the layout of pins i think. They basically shot themselves in the foot a bit with how many people wont be willing toss away a Z170/270 board they just bought for the previous generation chips, just to buy a new one a year later. A bit unfortunate, but it had to be done to get the performance out of the new CPU's to make them an actual upgrade from prior chips.

Fair enough.

[asand1]

1 hour ago, Trulop said:

the problem is due to a bit of a change up in the layout of pins i think. They basically shot themselves in the foot a bit with how many people wont be willing toss away a Z170/270 board they just bought for the previous generation chips, just to buy a new one a year later. A bit unfortunate, but it had to be done to get the performance out of the new CPU's to make them an actual upgrade from prior chips.

Who upgrades every year? That's just crazy. 

[Festus32]

1 hour ago, asand1 said:

Who upgrades every year? That's just crazy. 

That's the point he was trying to make it is stupid to upgrade every year, "you have to upgrade every day."

 

[Manster47]

So we cannot use the h110m mobo with i5 8400 ?

[Kasun.FET18]

On 11/19/2017 at 4:46 AM, Manster47 said:

So we cannot use the h110m mobo with i5 8400 ?

That's bad cos I was lookin forward to it!!