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What's with all the LGA1366 snobbery?
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LMAO! LGA1156 a dead end!? It's going to be Intel's mainstream platform for a good couple of years or more!
If anything, LGA1366 is more of a dead end for the home user as it'll quite possibly be positioned at the very high end and few processors will be made available for it.
The home user is unlikely to need more than a 4ghz i7 920 before lga1156 is dead and gone though, so I'm not sure that argument holds water either.
AM3 strikes me as the way to go for future upgrades, if only because amd have a good history of back compatibility and intel have a pretty woeful one.
AM3 strikes me as the way to go for future upgrades, if only because amd have a good history of back compatibility and intel have a pretty woeful one.
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the i9 will fit it, so that will force the i7 prices down so i cant see that argument myself.
as for it being used as a mainstream socket doesnt mean they will continue to make faster/better cpus, just means they will replace their current 775 with the i3/i5 chips. know one, not even intel, know exactly whats going to happen in the future, only do predictions, so if everyone rushes out and gets 1366 systems are you telling me intel wont change their angel and start orientating towards that market. so nieve to think that just because the i3/i5 will be what in most off the shelf pcs its going to be the most developed of the systems.
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but will that not lower the price as they will be dead/surpassed technology?
i can see the advantages of both, i just cant see the argument that because the i3/i5 chips will be more mainstream that means the 1366 chips will be un-upgradable for home users.
What happens with EOL chips is that prices tend to actually go up, as there's no supply versus some demand.
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i guess, but will this not mean the i9 chips will drop to fill the void?
No what happens is that the £700 chip becomes the £400 chip, the £400 chip becomes the £200 chip and the £200 chip disappears.
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but does that not mean when the £200 chip (say the i7 920) dissapears, the £400 chip will then drop to £200 to replace it, making way for a new £700 chip? therefore the argument of the 1366 chip not being something a home user will be able to obtain once the 920 dissapears is false?
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Hi, where can I see a comparison of the power consumption of the i7, i5 and a 45nm C2D?
Right now I'm running an e5300 (passive cooled), and I was wondering how much benefit upgrading will bring in the real world.
Mainstream yes, not enthusiast.
Crossfire/SLI on 1156 is slightly gimped at only half the bandwidth and AM3/1366 will also soon be fighting over the 6 core performance crown while 1156 goes without, a lack of any real upgrade options is very much dead end in my view I never said that the platform will be short lived.
AM3/1366 are both enthusiast platforms and will have a lot more to offer in terms of upgrades further down the line, eventually you will probably be able to get a better Phenom for AM3 than what will be available for 1156.
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If it's out of reach with a £200 920, it's just as much out of reach with a £200 950. Intel has no plans to release any processors on 1366 that'll be cheaper than the 920, indeed they might not even release a replacement for the 920 as there's a clear overlap with the equivalent 1156 i7 CPUs at this price and performance.
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ok, i kind of get that, but i am a normal home user and i managed to afford an i7 920, which im sure 99% of people could IF they could justify the need for one, but as it stands, most people use their pcs primerily for gaming and therefore, with the games at the stage they are, dont require anything higher than a 775/i3/i5 setup. so to say
indicating that only high end chips will be available and out of everyones, apart from server/businness user, price range is a very missleading argument, and pretty much going against what the original post was about 1366 snobbery, and leaning towards 1156 snobbery. now this isnt a personal attack on anyone, so please dont suspend or ban me for this, i just want to get my point that i cant see why either are really dead end sockets, i see them both doing very well for home users, depending on the users own personal use of the computer.
You really think sandy bridge will use EITHER of these sockets? Dream on.
I would be surprised if it didn't use one or even both of these sockets to be honest. It'll use DDR3, so there's no specific need for it to change socket from what's available now.
Whether a commercially available MB bought now will run one is a different matter - but again Intel have been pretty decent with the power regulation specs to provide for a future chip generation so there's no specific reason to think not.
