Socket LGA 1156 or socket H, which we will talk about in the article, screenshot from the site tradegroup.com.ua Socket LGA 1156 or socket H, which we will talk about in the article, screenshot from the site tradegroup.com.ua

Hi all! The 775 socket or socket T can rightfully be considered a legendary creation from Intel. Even in 2021, it continues to be popular, despite all the criticism coming from advanced users and specialists. You need to understand that this socket is obsolete, but you can’t argue with the statistics; assemblies on the 775 continue to work properly in many organizations, apartments and houses. Today I wanted to talk about the next generation socket 1156.

Intel stopped officially supporting LGA 1156 processors back in 2012. It was very quickly replaced by LGA 1155, which was able to gain its popularity. Assemblies on socket 1155 can still please even many “gamers” with their capabilities. And what about 1156, all the glory passed him by.

Specifications of LGA 1156 motherboard and i3-550 processor Specifications of LGA 1156 motherboard and i3-550 processor

I have several retail outlets where we sell used assemblies. components. It turns out to be assembled on different platforms, the main share of sales goes to socket 775 and socket 1155. I already wrote an article on the channel about sales of assemblies for socket 775 in 2021. If anyone is interested, go ahead, read and leave your comments for discussion. For understanding, build on LGA 775 with quad-core Quad and Xeon processors. We do not consider “weaker” processors with two cores.

Example of a budget build on socket 1156 Example of a budget build on socket 1156

We don’t manage to do assemblies on socket 1156 often, as we run into the problem of a lack of components. And when something appears and we collect it, it sells very hard. They will pick up the assembly on socket 775 or 1155 faster. Despite the price of such an assembly is not much higher than on 775, but the performance is higher,

Why this happens, I have identified several main reasons; if anyone has anything to add, please write in the comments.

Firstly , this socket is little popular and recognizable. Many buyers have not even heard of the existence of such a socket and are distrustful. No matter how funny it may sound, it is true.

Secondly , there are few offers on the secondary market. Especially in small cities, it is problematic to “upgrade” your system on socket 1156. It is difficult to choose a “better” processor, although the pricing policy is affordable. On the platforms “Avito”, “Yula” or “Yandex Ads” the offers are meager. Processors are several times cheaper than 1155 socket ones. There is a solution; you can purchase a processor for socket 1156 on the AliExpress trading platform, there are many available offers there.

Thirdly . Supports motherboards with 2 channels of DDR3 RAM. For more advanced users this may be a significant factor.

Fourthly . If you approach the choice more “thoughtfully”, then it is better to pay a little more and buy something on the 1155 socket, about which it is hard to say that it is obsolete and it is still too early to write it off.

So it turns out that the successor of socket 775 remained on the sidelines, socket 1156 became a transitional link. You can even give a trivial example with operating systems, Windows Vista or Windows 8, whose fate became similar. I have already written articles about these OSs on the channel, if anyone is interested, read them.

Why didn’t everyone like Windows Vista?

Windows 8 repeated the fate of Windows Vista, but did not leave a bad impression

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