Looking at the mobos up for sale on OcUK the socket 1156 based boards are cheaper but there is not one single user review for any of them! The 1366 boards have plenty of reviews & clearly they look to be the more popular choice. So what's the deal? Is a 1156 socket board a good choice or is it better to just spend a little more & go for the 1366?
Socket 1366 V's 1156
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Ah. That would explain it then ....... I'll get me coat[timko];14923874 said:Motherboards and CPUs for the 1156 platform only got released 1.5weeks ago whilst 1366 has been around since last year. Give it a bit more time before user reviews start appearing
This board looks good to me. Mighht consider one of these as the basis for my next upgrade;
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-209-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495
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Go with 1366 as it's been tested more.
I have both and there is no real difference. Go for a decent board and buy a 750 with a good cooler. Add a bit of overclocking and your sorted.
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all depends on what you are uisng the pc for if its for gaming go for a p55 board with the 860 if you can afford too, as this will give you hiperthreading if you do a any encoding as well otherwise if you only do encoding ect then its the 920 route.
but like i all ways say buy for what you need it for not what everyone wants you to have.
but like i all ways say buy for what you need it for not what everyone wants you to have.
PC is mainly used for audio/music work so one of my main concerns is noise. I never overclock but I do like my machine to be powerfu lenough for the latest games, even if it means graphical settings have to be toned down a little. I'm not a performance junkie but I have got a soft spot for a good FPS 
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well the 860 will do you then if you fancied the p55 mobo's.
it will perform well play your games/apps without any lose,benchmarks and reviews have proven this chip to be one of the best around and will beat even an i7 920 for gaming.
if you cant afford the 860 then the 720 will be ok on gaming but you may lose on applications,it will just a take a bit longer but no big deal in my eyes.
i7 920 is more for overclockers/benchies ect and is a good chip but like you say your not into all that,hence why i say buy for what you need it and not go with what everyone else has got.
you could go for the h50 to reduce noise levels and add mabybe some decent quite fans like the erthamax fans pricey but very very quite.
hope this helps
it will perform well play your games/apps without any lose,benchmarks and reviews have proven this chip to be one of the best around and will beat even an i7 920 for gaming.
if you cant afford the 860 then the 720 will be ok on gaming but you may lose on applications,it will just a take a bit longer but no big deal in my eyes.
i7 920 is more for overclockers/benchies ect and is a good chip but like you say your not into all that,hence why i say buy for what you need it and not go with what everyone else has got.
you could go for the h50 to reduce noise levels and add mabybe some decent quite fans like the erthamax fans pricey but very very quite.
hope this helps
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What DAW are you using?
I'm sure it will once I work out what 860, 920, 720, h50 actually are/is?!
I currently use Sony Acid. I'm a huge Reason fan as well. I was looking to buy Propellerhead's Record, which integrates seemlesly with Reason & would more or less take over from Acid. But Record has no MIDI-out so I wouldn't be able to control my external gear from it! Major bummer that. I'm currently campaigning for 'MIDI-out for Record' on the Propellerheads forum
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920 is socket 1366 i7
860 is socket 1156 i7 - confusing no? lol
750 is socket 1156 i5
to be honest for your needs the i5 will be fine
h50 is corsair h50 self contained water cooler for CPU
860 is socket 1156 i7 - confusing no? lol
750 is socket 1156 i5
to be honest for your needs the i5 will be fine
h50 is corsair h50 self contained water cooler for CPU
As a general question is it not a crux only having dual channel/4 slots on the new P55 boards?
I was always under the impression that fully populating the slots adversely affected overclocking potential, and if you only used 2 of the slots wouldn't you be limited to like 4GB?
I was always under the impression that fully populating the slots adversely affected overclocking potential, and if you only used 2 of the slots wouldn't you be limited to like 4GB?
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on socket 775 then yeah using all DIMMs put extra load on the NB so you needed more volts and it did SLIGHTLY limit your max OC potential (were talking 100MHz), not entirely sure with either of the new set ups if its still the case though, as they use different memory controllers, however that being said, 4 gig is still plenty for most uses
Cheers for the explanation. i5 it would be then