Those pins seem to be documented in the public intel pdfs. Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family for the LGA2011-3 Socket, Thermal/Mechanical Specification and Design Guide (TMSDG): www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/core-i7-lga2011-3-tmsdg.pdf Page 52, all pins are showing on the drawings. Let see AJ1. In Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family for the LGA-2011 Socket, Datasheet, Volume 1: www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/4th-gen-core-i7-lga2011-datasheet-vol-1.pdf Page 96 we can see "AJ1 VSA PWR". So it is documented as power pin.
I'm confused. Do the Haswell-E chips have the extra pins, but the sockets don't? Are the OC Socket pins smaller, so some contacts touch more than 1 pin? Have ASUS become wizards?
D4rkR3bel5 I think there are extra pins/gold contacts in all of the intel CPU's. But some of the pins/gold contacts found on the CPU PCB are unused or not touched by any pins because of the missing pins. I think Asus then added the extra pins against the standard one's and found out what the extra pins/gold contacts from the CPU really do after adding more pins on the cpu socket..
No, they only patented the socket design that they created (by adding more pins). The CPU pins/gold contacts on the Haswell-E is untouched and stay's the same. This also means that the missing pins from the "Standard mobo cpu socket" left some gold contacts from the cpu pcb not connected/touch by any pins (hence Asus added more pins and found out it can have a good effect for Overclocking) But the patent only last for 6 months, after that other mobo manufacturers will probably have a slice of the OC socket idea.
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Great video Tom! Thanks for the explanation.
Those pins seem to be documented in the public intel pdfs.
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family for the LGA2011-3 Socket, Thermal/Mechanical Specification and Design Guide (TMSDG):
www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/core-i7-lga2011-3-tmsdg.pdf
Page 52, all pins are showing on the drawings. Let see AJ1.
In Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family for the LGA-2011 Socket, Datasheet, Volume 1:
www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/4th-gen-core-i7-lga2011-datasheet-vol-1.pdf
Page 96 we can see "AJ1 VSA PWR". So it is documented as power pin.
I'm confused. Do the Haswell-E chips have the extra pins, but the sockets don't? Are the OC Socket pins smaller, so some contacts touch more than 1 pin? Have ASUS become wizards?
"become"? Asus have always been wizards.
D4rkR3bel5 I think there are extra pins/gold contacts in all of the intel CPU's. But some of the pins/gold contacts found on the CPU PCB are unused or not touched by any pins because of the missing pins. I think Asus then added the extra pins against the standard one's and found out what the extra pins/gold contacts from the CPU really do after adding more pins on the cpu socket..
eroOtoko1 Yeah, the CPUs actually have more than 2011 pins. The extra pins are to bypass the FIVR and must be enabled.
Not only blank spots, even flat no spot areas are also filled with pins not..
Also on WS and Sabertooth X99 mobos.
If I were Asus I would put a permanent patent on this feature.
But what does it do!?
It does things!
More things!
RushedKit!
Does Intel even allow reverse engineering?
hi, do u know where i can buy the socket?
tnx a lot
You cant sadly
RushKit why? i rework 3 1151 and 5 1150 (dead a lot of main before this)...
Wait, did you just say Asus have a patent on something that to begin with belongs to Intel? Lolwut. :p
AFAIK the actual socket doesn't belong to intel.
No, they only patented the socket design that they created (by adding more pins). The CPU pins/gold contacts on the Haswell-E is untouched and stay's the same. This also means that the missing pins from the "Standard mobo cpu socket" left some gold contacts from the cpu pcb not connected/touch by any pins (hence Asus added more pins and found out it can have a good effect for Overclocking)
But the patent only last for 6 months, after that other mobo manufacturers will probably have a slice of the OC socket idea.