Title pretty much sums it up. I'm not sure if this topic has been brought up before. I always wondered why chip companies gone from using a socket based processor (socker 5,7) to a slot based one ...

However, when counting the pins, you will realize that the 2011, 2011-1 and 2011-3 actually have different pin counts. As far as I understand, all these sockets fit physically with the CPUs, i.e. you ...