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Go 2011, it will last you a long time. most will tell you to go 1155, but you want something that will last.
.....People using first gen quad cores that they bought 5 years ago... People using first gen i series quad cores they bought how ever long ago... They are both upgrading at around the same time so argument is invalid.
Q6600, i7 920, some folks still have these and planing on keeping them till they want a true gen upgrade. Hell i still got my i7 940 with 285 sli setup and its still doing the rounds.
Yes thats my point... You just said that 2011 would out last 1155/1150 but it won't they will die at the same point.
Thats my preoccupation as well. 2011 is around for a while now and has 2 year-old features. Great platform, great CPU's, we know the 4960 will fit this socket, but appart from the potential for 6 cores if you have the money, there are no other benefits. When next gen sata and DDR4 comes out, all of current and older gen hardware will be "old".
Speaking for myself, I got an i7 930 at 4Ghz and I will upgrade to haswell if everything looks okey in terms of OC and features, otherwise I might wait even longer.
It depends what purpose you're buying for, but old and obsolete are completely different things. I seriously doubt that the arrival of DDR4 will suddenly render all DDR3 systems completely useless. X58 SATA2 and PCIe 2, can you honestly say that the arrival of SATA3 and PCIe 3 made your system useless? I'm on i7 920 and I don't feel like that at all tbh.
It depends what purpose you're buying for, but old and obsolete are completely different things. I seriously doubt that the arrival of DDR4 will suddenly render all DDR3 systems completely useless. X58 SATA2 and PCIe 2, can you honestly say that the arrival of SATA3 and PCIe 3 made your system useless? I'm on i7 920 and I don't feel like that at all tbh.
If your considering x79, then the marginal higher price point doesn't worry you.
Therefore buy x79.
IT IS AWESOME.
Upgrade options galore from a 3820 and true tri/quad capability!
Simples.
It may be older, and not have newer features...but do you really care for some of the new features coming out?
What features exactly are missing from x79 motherboards that an ivybridge would have?
Hold the phone... There's no PCI-E 3.0 on X79?
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WHAT?!![]()
I am now confused![]()
Perhaps I wasn't overly generous with the information.
Nvidia do not provide supported pci3 for their graphic cards on the x79 platform. You can enable it, but apparently it isn't great, those with electonics knowledge talk of problems and 'signal hangs'. I've enabled it, but with my setup I wouldn't be able to tell the difference...you really need tri to benefit.
Plenty of info on it over on the rog forum.
Seems a bit odd that there is no official support...