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1155 or 2011

LGA2011 supports 4-8cores, has quad channel memory supporting much more in total. Also more PCI-E bandwidth available.
 
Rossi~ said:
LGA2011 supports 4-8cores, has quad channel memory supporting much more in total. Also more PCI-E bandwidth available.
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All of the the above are good selling points of LGA2011. However to add:

LGA 1155 has support for trim in raid 0 with ssds (Z77 only)
LGA 1155 is usually a lot cheaper (depending on configuration) and offers near identical performance to LGA2011 in games.
LGA 2011 shines over LGA1155 when doing heavy multimedia editing (6 cores vs 4 - ignoring 3820).
LGA 1155 is EOL, there will be no more processors or updates released for it
LGA 2011 should be getting Ivy Bridge-E in Q3 2013 so will probably remain current until then and therefore provides a future upgrade path.
LGA 2011 processors (3930k and 3960x) run hotter and require better cooling than their sandy / ivy 1155 brethren.

Personally I went for 2011 as I can justify the extra oomph that the 6 core processors provide. The ability to have 32GB memory without filling up all motherboard slots also appealed to me as I often run a lot of virtual machines etc.
 
LGA 2011 should be getting Ivy Bridge-E in Q3 2013 so will probably remain current until then and therefore provides a future upgrade path.
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Now you saying that, i dont know what to do. I was planning to get the I5 3750K, then upgrade to the I7+ at a later date in the future
 
Noise bothers me, so I need temps low. Soon as I heard about the ivybridge temps I pulled the trigger on my 2500k. The 2500k / 2600k are fantastic chips that will last ages.
 
Unless you're doing some seriously CPU and memory bandwidth using stuff 2011 won't give you anything that 1155 doesn't. Quad channel memory is pure overkill for a desktop rig.
 
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