Any overclocking advantages to LGA processors?

[SlingXShot]

Land Grid Array - Prescott

So these things have no pins? Does it mean, no such thing as pin melting?

Any other advantages?

 

[TC]

Pin melting - never heard of that one unless somebody hooked it up to a welding machine. LGA will have advantages no doubt. Shorter circuit paths to the core will help signal integrity at higher clock rates.

 

[SlingXShot]

Pin melting - never heard of that one unless somebody hooked it up to a welding machine. LGA will have advantages no doubt. Shorter circuit paths to the core will help signal integrity at higher clock rates.

Yeah with high enuf voltage, the pins will melt. Actually read this problem in this messege board, a year ago or so.

 

[Maxvla]

the length of contact won't change all that much TC. i believe the pins are contacted from the side in the socket currently. I would assume they would contact from the bottom on the LGA setup.

as far as anything else.. there's really not anything to suggest any improvements from just the socket/pin style change. If anything the new fangled socket (multiple pieces) will mean more complex heatsink attachment. I also doubt very much if any existing heatsinks will work at all on these new sockets. Intel is really good about that.

 

[Lancelot]

The current ZIF-sockets are electrical-wise VERY good sockets. The CPU pins are mechanically pinched/queezed around by the contacts inside the socket. From what I've seen, LGA are just sort of touch-contacts. The CPU is supposed to be placed on the socket and some kind of (cooling?) plate pressures the CPU onto the socket. Electrically that sounds buggy to me but Intel prolly has it worked out 100%

 

[BLooD]

lol well at least there will be no more bent pins, like i did the other day couldnt focus on the little sod to figure out which way it was bent