I don't see this happening unless people stop building intel PC's, there is to much extra money to be made by intel selling a variety of LGA CPU's, there are approximately 42 different CPU's for LGA 1155 and intel is cashing in on that, if it was not profitable intel would not have that many options.
There are all kinds of people out there and some like me would not upgrade as often if they only sold soldered i5 2500k with a high end board because I buy low cost boards with high end CPUs. The combinations for different people is staggering and intel wins over the motherboard manufactures for not using BGA desktop.
This is a example, so there is approximately 42 intel LGA 1155 and they work with approximately 22 different Z77 boards from Asus, So 42x22 is 924 combinations we have now and intel and Asus has a combination for any use or want and price.
People that build there own PC's and channel groups is big, look at all the motherboard manufacturers that are supporting them selves with there share of the market with variety of motherboard combinations, it is staggering for DIY.
What I cant believe is the DIY motherboard manufactures sell enough variety now to stay in DIY business, however it's a big world with lots of people.
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