Upgrade advice ! :)

[MickOR]

Currently building my first build , have the case coolermaster HAF x, corsair AX850 power supply, caviar black HDD, Aerocool fan controller and have the benq ew2420 on the way ,will probably end up with crossfire or sli graphics set up as well. i was about to get the sabertooth x58 board and the i7 950 but then heard about the sandy bridge release, am i right in saying that this release replaces the 1156 socket and not the 1366?, i also heard that it uses dual channel ram while the current 1366 uses 3 channel and the upcoming 1366 replacement will probably be quad channel .my question is should i buy a x58 MB and i7 950 now and upgrade in about a year to the 1366 replacement or get a 1156 replacement sandy in jan ?. Either way in a years time ill have to replace the motherboard/chip/ram anyway if upgrading to the 1366 replacement?

 

[Cookeh]

It won't "replace" any. It's just like the move from 775 to 1156 and 1366.

I would personally wait until January time when sandy bridge comes out and see how that affects current market pricing and how it performs compared to what's currently out there.

It also depends on your use, i.e. i5 is generally better than i7 for gaming, but not for encoding etc.

 

[MickOR]

I be using it for a bit of gaming and and a lot of video encoding and photoshop, guess it's best to probably wait a bit and see what happens in jan, generally when newer chips come out how has this affected the price of older chips and motherboards in the past? much of a decrease in price?

 

[95thrifles]

If your main use is encoding, then theres no point waiting, just get 1366 now, the SB still wont touch it in that department

 

[MickOR]

Cool, thanks 95thrifles

 

[Cookeh]

If your main use is encoding, then theres no point waiting, just get 1366 now, the SB still wont touch it in that department

+1.

1136 is still king there, and if you need to upgrade later down the line, gulftown (i7 980x for example) will still exist.

 

[cmndr_andi]

The s1366 will still only be top dog for encoding if you can afford the £700 i7 980X. The i7 950 will be solidly thrashed by the new sandy bridge i7 CPUs in CPU heavy applications like encoding - have a look at this preview, it also looks like it will overclock wonderfully (so long as you go for the K series CPUs).