Why are there no motherboards that are designed for both Intel and AMD CPU chips?
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Mar 15, 20269368 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've been looking at motherboards for quite a while and noticed that they all belong to either one chipset family or the other. The chips themselves look identical to my inexperienced eyes, each lacking a few "legs" in different positions. So, why are there no motherboards that are compatible for b…
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Because the use fundamentally different bus architectures; see HyperTransport and QuickPath Interconnect for the details. Physical similarities in the arrangement of pins, etc, are mostly down to the physical realities of building a CPU dictating mu…
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