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new sockets coming up?

subbytna

subbytna

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Are 1366 and 1156 going to be going by the wayside soon? If so what's the new socket goign to be and what CPU will it be used in?
 
subbytna said:
what sort of CPU will it take??
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New ones that come out next year. The sockets will not be compatable with each other. 1156 goes in Q1 2011 and will be replaced with 1155, followed by 1366 going in Q3 and replaced with 1356. Current i3/i5/i7 cpu's will not work in the new sockets.
 
pastymuncher said:
New ones that come out next year. The sockets will not be compatable with each other. 1156 goes in Q1 2011 and will be replaced with 1155, followed by 1366 going in Q3 and replaced with 1356. Current i3/i5/i7 cpu's will not work in the new sockets.
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I hear the socket replacing 1366 (in terms of market segment) will be the LGA 2011. 4 memory channels and 40 PCIe lanes supposedly, should be fun.

X58/s1366 won't be EOL until Autumn 2011, as you say. So the i7 chips still have some life left in them. For people looking for new gaming system, I don't think they should wait for these new sockets/CPUs. The current generation is more than enough for our gaming needs, everything is being held back by graphics (which are not exactly slow).
 
There's always something to wait for.

While they release the 1155 chips we'll hear more about the next gen chips for the next year :/


Current chips are fine, it is the graphics which are the "weak" point.
 
i think its kinda of ironic 1366 was the first by a year and will be the last by almost a year. They might've well not bothered with 1156 if it was destined to last for only 18 months...
 
It does seem strange practice to have the mobo makers etc get things up for such a short sales life.

But I'm not seeing any terrible consequences for anyone who bought into it. Apart from those with a CPU-but-not-mobo upgrade fetish.
 
Intel will replace:

LGA 1156 by new 1155
1366 will be replace by new 2011 "Socket R"

that why Intel are making new CPU from late this year and start from 2011 as AMD are development new AMD Fusion CPU
 
Hotwired said:
It does seem strange practice to have the mobo makers etc get things up for such a short sales life.

But I'm not seeing any terrible consequences for anyone who bought into it. Apart from those with a CPU-but-not-mobo upgrade fetish.
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It seems inefficient, but intel and amd don't want to base their new CPU's around an old chipset. Better to design a new chipset to go with each new batch of processors, than to design new processors which are limited by old tech.
 
I dont really see the frequent socket changes a problem anyway, there are generally other improvements that go on during life of a CPU. For example USB, Firewire, and SATA are all frequently upgraded, and unless you fill your PC with a bunch of PCI-E cards, a new cpu and motherboard will generally release a whole bunch of new features.
 
Corasik said:
I dont really see the frequent socket changes a problem anyway, there are generally other improvements that go on during life of a CPU. For example USB, Firewire, and SATA are all frequently upgraded, and unless you fill your PC with a bunch of PCI-E cards, a new cpu and motherboard will generally release a whole bunch of new features.
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does not compute unless frequently is every 2-3+years
 
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