<i>So LGA1155 is a Land Grid Array Socket with 1,155 pins.</i><p>Their scheme may be somewhat internally consistent (until they change it again next year). The information it conveys remains completely useless.<p>Nobody cares about the number of pins on a socket or which &quot;generation&quot; a CPU belongs to.<p>We want to know which CPU is compatible to which socket, and how CPUs compare on their key metrics.<p>So here&#x27;s a useful naming scheme: Sockets should be called S1, S2, S3 [...]<p>CPUs should be called: S1-8-40W-PM15000<p>That would be an 8 core CPU for Socket S1 that draws 40W and scores PassMark 15000.<p>If Intel &amp; co insist on making us sift through hostile numeric identifiers then they should at least make them <i>useful</i>.