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Socket 1155 dead already?

ANN1H1LAT0R

ANN1H1LAT0R

ANN1H1LAT0R

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So about two months ago I finally bought my new gaming PC (after being about 5 years away from PC gaming lol)

After extensive research and budget handling I went with the system in my tag. Built it and overclocked it and I am incredibly happy.

But I've been thinking. With all these new sockets coming out already and new CPU's have I made a mistake for future upgrades.

I know games get better and tech evolves quickly but I thought in a few years Id be able to drop in a new CPU and maybe go SLI or even just frop in a new GPU architecture to get games still looking their best but is the 2700K really as far as I'll ever be able to go now? Will intel ever bring out better CPU's for this socket?

Have I failed with my computer already haha
 
The Ivy range and backwards compatible PCIe 3.0 GPUs await, you're gonna be fine for quite a while mate. The 1155 socket is excellent and will command respect for years to come.
 
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Is PCIe 3.0 going to be an issue though in the future. Is it going po be like AGP was when PCIe was released?

I didn't think GPU's used the full PCIe bandwidth as it was so I was surprised about the new Radeon supporting the new standard.
 
ANN1H1LAT0R said:
Is PCIe 3.0 going to be an issue though in the future. Is it going po be like AGP was when PCIe was released?

I didn't think GPU's used the full PCIe bandwidth as it was so I was surprised about the new Radeon supporting the new standard.
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No, PCIe 3.0 is fully backwards compatible. The potential for additional performance is hardly inspiring and, to my knowledge, no released card pushes 2.0 to its limit. (including the very top dual-gpu solutions)
 
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ANN1H1LAT0R said:
I mean like when card campanies stopped AGP and just went to PCIe. Will they stop 2.0
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They will move over their cards to PCIe 3.0, yes. But unlike AGP, you can use PCIE 3.0 cards in PCIE 2.0 boards - so you won't be left with a useless board (at least not for a long time). On Anandtech when they tested the new £440 HD 7970 PCIE 3.0 card - they said that:

At the high end the results are not surprising. In our informal testing ahead of the 7970 launch we didn’t see any differences between PCIe 2 and PCIe 3 worth noting, and our formal testing backs this up. Under gaming there is absolutely no appreciable difference in performance between PCIe 3 x16 (16GB/sec) and PCIe 2 (8GB/sec).
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So basically even the fastest new generation single GPUs cards don't show any benefit going with the higher bandwidth PCIE 3.0 - as a x16 PCIE 2.0 port has plenty of bandwidth. In fact, even looking at the results for a x8 PCIE 2.0 slot with the same card, the performance penalty is small.

Moving from PCIe 2 x16 (8GB/sec) to PCIe 2 x8 (4GB/sec) does incur a generally small penalty on the 7970. However like most tests this is entirely dependent on the game itself. With games like Metro 2033 the difference is non-existent, while Battlefield 3 and Crysis only lose 2-3%, and DiRT3 suffers the most, losing 14% of its performance. DiRT3’s minimum framerates look even worse, dropping by 19%. As DiRT3 is one of our higher performing games in the first place the real world difference is not going to be that great – it’s still well above 60fps at all times – but it’s clear that in the wrong situation only having 4GB/sec of PCIe bandwidth can bottleneck a 7970.
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Yes, eventually all cards will be 3.0, but it matters not, as has been mentioned above, they will be backwards compatible with a 2.0 slot and at the moment don't lose performance when plugged into one.

By the time video cards actually require 3.0 to operate at maximum performance, it will be time for a new system anyway IMO.

EDIT: OK I was beaten to it, stupid slow fingers!
 
Well thanks for all the info guys :) Thats made me feel much better about my new system. I doubt games will struggle for a while yet anyway but I just didnt want to have to blow another 1200 quid again in a year or so lol
 
ANN1H1LAT0R said:
Well thanks for all the info guys :) Thats made me feel much better about my new system. I doubt games will struggle for a while yet anyway but I just didnt want to have to blow another 1200 quid again in a year or so lol
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The 2500k is a beast for gaming, at -most- you would want to upgrade your GPU after a while but certainly the CPU will last for years.
 
Never wait for the next, best, greatest component. With that sort of thought process, you will never purchase / build anything! You had a great pc, and still is great, don't worry about it already being 'dead'!
 
Martini1991 said:
Your primary lane with an Ivy CPU should become PCI-E 3.0.
But PCI-E 3.0 is backwards compatible anyway.
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i think i read somewhere the MB has the have a PCI-E 3.0 chip so when a Ivy CPU is used the PCI-E slot or slots will become 3.0.

With Intel's delay of PCIe 3.0 enabled chips - Ivy Bridge, in this case - and a huge demand for bandwidth, both Asrock and MSI have come forward with PCIe 3.0 motherboards. However, despite having added the necessary signaling and switching chips required to make PCIe 3.0 happen, they will still ask you to plug in an Ivy Bridge CPU to enable the full benefits of the PCIe 3.0 interface. You know, the kind of benefits that will only be available in the second quarter of 2012.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2084141/pcie-mainboards-start-tip
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my MB has a PCI-E 3.0 chip
 
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