New socket to replace LGA1366 due in 2011

Typhoon said:
I suspect the Hex core 1366's will still be ahead of the quad Sandy Bridges. It will only be upgrading for upgradings sake. May as well wait for a 8 core Haswell instead.
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I take it you don`t have high hopes for Intel's Sandy Bridge and think it will probably be something similar in performance or slightly slower than Intel's Gulftown??? The reason why i`m asking is because you do know Sandy Bridge will be the processor battling it out with AMD's new Bulldozer processors next year, so you would expect it to give a decent performance gane over what's out already.

Intel's Sandy Bridge better fast as the comments on the internet about AMD's new Bulldozer suggests that it's gonna be one hell of a fast prosessor.
 
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Dont see the fuss tbh, each time one wants too upgrade just do the whole lot cpu/mobo/ram ;)

Even if someone does buy the 1366/Core i7 setup even towards the end of the year its still powerful for a very long time and will proberly best AMDs 6 cores coming up;)
 
Typhoon said:
I suspect the Hex core 1366's will still be ahead of the quad Sandy Bridges. It will only be upgrading for upgradings sake. May as well wait for a 8 core Haswell instead.
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being so close to 2011 and due an upgrade thats exactly wot i thought too, intel are going to pwn me in the ass just like they did when x58 first came out, anyone remember how expensive the motherboards was at launch? it took a while to get the £150 x58's we have now which would push my upgrade futher into mid 2011 :( i cant even drop in a Q6600 as i need 1066mhz ram as well... sigh.the only option i had apart from this was AMD which i was stoked about until i read the crysis benchmarks which said it has platform issues as they had worse performance than the quad phenom and got 0 fps increase going from 5870 to 5970? WTH?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-890fx,2613-9.html

unless they release this 32nm gulftown on x58 with decent prices im really quite stuffed tbh, no chance if buy an i7 now as within 5 months they will be old tech, a buit like buying a Q6600 when the i7 was 5 months off.


it does look sweet though quad channel ram is 8GB 4x2GB ddr3? pci-e 3.0 as well dammit ><
 
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Rofflay, if you buy an i7 now you won't be cpu limited for quite some time to come. Maybe 2 or 3 gpu iterations? By then cheap Gulftowns should be available...
 
I am happy with my i7 920 especially since I just mainly play games watch movies etc. So don't think I will be upgrading until my system dies on me which with the way Intel moves I don't think I will be buying there top end sockets any more and just wait on the mainstream which I maybe should have done this time around and went 1156 instead of 1366.

However considering my usage AM3 looks tempting on my next upgrade.
 
I don't see what all the fuss is about.

My 4 GHz 920 is faster than the AMD 6 core chips. I can drop in a 6 core i7 down the line and will have more than enough cpu power for 18 months if not longer.

Fact is there is just no point in waiting for new tech.You buy for now as by the time the new chips and mobo's come out and you buy... a few months later new chips will be out anyway.

And so the cycle continues...

The 6 core AMD's are here and the Old 920 D0 beats it across the board:D

:p
 
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I was going to look at i7 920 as well for my next upgrade but now more then ever I'm looking at AMD for a new chip...first time I've thought that in a long time. They just beat INTEL in the bang for buck stake every time.

Apart from e-penis and benchmarks - few if any would notice any difference in having an AMD chip in their PC as opposed to INTEL anyway...imo
 
I must admit, I'm not too worried with technology these days. Hardware performance is very quickly outstripping what most people run on it.

I've only just updated my machine after 9 years of not touching a single thing apart from a second hand GeForce 9600 to replace a broken graphics card. The machine is from the LGA775 socket series (3.0GHz Pentium D) and is still running now being used as a file server at home.

To be honest, there's never a good or bad time to design a PC. You just pick a moment, get what you know will handle what you want and go with it.

However I must admit even with all this in my head, I'm still upset at how quick Intel move on the chipsets. I've never been that big an advocate of AMD but I must admit they tend to hold on to their chipsets for longer periods.
 
Ph4lanx said:
I must admit, I'm not too worried with technology these days. Hardware performance is very quickly outstripping what most people run on it.

I've only just updated my machine after 9 years of not touching a single thing apart from a second hand GeForce 9600 to replace a broken graphics card. The machine is from the LGA775 socket series (3.0GHz Pentium D) and is still running now being used as a file server at home.

To be honest, there's never a good or bad time to design a PC. You just pick a moment, get what you know will handle what you want and go with it.

However I must admit even with all this in my head, I'm still upset at how quick Intel move on the chipsets. I've never been that big an advocate of AMD but I must admit they tend to hold on to their chipsets for longer periods.
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exactly - people complaining about them changing their sockets after a few years are probably upgrading their pc far too often.

ive had an e6600 now for ages, since near they were launched. it does everything fine, i can game, burn dvd's, do anything i want with it. i have resisted upgrading to quad core, then to the i7 platform.

the e6600 isnt even the fastest core 2 duo, so even if i did need more power, i could stay on the same chipset and go for something with over 3ghz.

i will however hold out for another year or two, see whats the best bang for buck then go for that.
 
Yep, people forget that intel will happily do whatever will make them the most money, if you're the sort of person that *must* have the latest kit then yes you'll probably end up complaining that they change stuff too often, for everyone else it's not really an issue.
 
easyrider said:
I don't see what all the fuss is about.

My 4 GHz 920 is faster than the AMD 6 core chips. I can drop in a 6 core i7 down the line and will have more than enough cpu power for 18 months if not longer.

Fact is there is just no point in waiting for new tech.You buy for now as by the time the new chips and mobo's come out and you buy... a few months later new chips will be out anyway.

And so the cycle continues...

The 6 core AMD's are here and the Old 920 D0 beats it across the board:D

:p
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Are you comparing heavily overclocked to stock?



Rofflay said:
i cant even drop in a Q6600 as i need 1066mhz ram as well
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What? Q6600 will work with 800 as well!
 
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I'm highly sceptical the X68 will turn out out to be the Sandy bridge chipset. For one thing the end of 2011 is a bloody long way away, and with AMD already releasing chipsets with SATA600 and undoubtably USB3.0 soon, Intel won't want to be that far behind.

Plus if you look at say the S775 platform it went through 3 generations of chipset before being phased out. LGA1366 has had 1 chipset so far and that's already been out for a long time and lacks the essential upcoming SATA600/USB3.0 standard.

It's my guess X68 will be launched this year, and essentially be the same as X58, only with SATA600, USB 3.0 and most likely a smaller process as I think X58 is still made on the old 65nm process and they are sure to want to knock it down to 45/32nm soon as they're comfortable doing so.
 
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