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What's with all the LGA1366 snobbery?

Jokester said:
If it's out of reach with a £200 920, it's just as much out of reach with a £200 950. Intel has no plans to release any processors on 1366 that'll be cheaper than the 920, indeed they might not even release a replacement for the 920 as there's a clear overlap with the equivalent 1156 i7 CPUs at this price and performance.
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Exactly. I see no logical reason for Intel to release anything new under £300-400 for LGA1366 as it's an enthusiast platform. Where's the business sense in them releasing cheap processors for this socket so that enthusiasts can just overclock them rather than buying a more expensive processor to start with?
 
WILD9 said:
Do we even know for certain that no 1156 6 core chips are coming or is it still just assumed that they aren't because of that leaked intel roadmap a while back?
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I'm sure they will in due course as all new tech filters down to the "mainstream", it'll just be launched at the high end on LGA1366 with a price to match.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there dreaming about a hexa-core equivalent of the i7 920 at a similar price point who are going to be very disappointed :)
 
Vertigo1 said:
I'm sure they will in due course as all new tech filters down to the "mainstream", it'll just be launched at the high end on LGA1366 with a price to match.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there dreaming about a hexa-core equivalent of the i7 920 at a similar price point who are going to be very disappointed :)
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only time will tell, but i have a feeling someone might also be dreaming that you will be seeing 6 core 1156 will be out anytime soon at a price that will be in your sub £300 price range.
 
Psypher5 said:
i like to know if its worth "downgrading" but i need the raw performance of the i7.

Id love an itx system, but theres no x58 ones except shuttle.
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You won't get your socket 1366 ITX.

But I will get my socket 1156 ITX :)

Why?

Two memory slots instead of three.

No Northbridge nuking the board space.

Cooler running processors.

It's absolutely perfect for ITX.

1156 has been out a few months and the ITX boards cometh. THEY COMETH!


Mind you, I'm actually doing a 775 ITX til they cometh out a dam sight more so we can have a look at them :p


Get a nice spec 1156 socket ITX board, one of the 55**/54**/53** low profile cards and either a i3 or another i5 750 and that's a smashing little ITX :)
 
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I have a 1366 socket board and tbh, I don't have anything against the 1156, especially now they are getting cheaper and the cheaper cpus are coming out. It was only when the boards were the same price I didn't see much point in them. :)
 
Hotwired said:
You won't get your socket 1366 ITX.

But I will get my socket 1156 ITX :)

Why?

Two memory slots instead of three.

No Northbridge nuking the board space.

Cooler running processors.

It's absolutely perfect for ITX.

1156 has been out a few months and the ITX boards cometh. THEY COMETH!


Mind you, I'm actually doing a 775 ITX til they cometh out a dam sight more so we can have a look at them :p


Get a nice spec 1156 socket ITX board, one of the 55**/54**/53** low profile cards and either a i3 or another i5 750 and that's a smashing little ITX :)
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so your telling me a shuttle x58, on sale on ocuk now, is a lie? :P and their newly announced mitx x58 j3 series isnt possible ;) ? (which can hold other its mobos, and supports xfire/sli. but i can see it costing a bomb. :(

I need the i7 though, for processing speed. Rendering etc
 
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from this thread in my opinion there seems to be more 1156 snobery than 1366, as its the people in favor of 1156 that are putting down the 1366 sockets. just my opinion but thats how i see it.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Nope. As I just said, Lynnfield is arguably far better if power consumption is important and/or you're not planning to overclock much or at all.

With all due respect, it's this "you only buy 1156 if you can't afford 1366" elitist mentality which seems far too prevalent.
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He said that 1156 is cheaper and 1366 is faster and you counter with no, 1156 has better power consumption. Well, that means it's cheaper to buy and cheaper to use; 1366 is still faster.

There is no elitist mentality in that comment, just cold hard facts.
 
Yes l run a i7 (see sig), came in to a little bit of money so built the best PC l could for about £1200 but end up spending approx £1400. As l'm retired so this PC has to last me a few years, have just upgraded the GFX card from a 4890 TO 5870 and thats it finished.

Personally not bothered what build, make of PC they have as the amount of money dictates what you can afford to build. Would not have built this system if l had not come into money, l would still be runing a Q6600 rig and l only got that because all the family chipped in. Might of went AM3 or i5 if they had been out, as l see it theres snobbery coming from both i5 and i7 owner's both crying "mines better than yours" who cares!!!!
 
JonJ678 said:
The home user is unlikely to need more than a 4ghz i7 920 before lga1156 is dead and gone though, so I'm not sure that argument holds water either.
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You're right but it's not really about needs, nobody in this thread really needs a quad core but they will try to justify it "oh but I do some encoding" etc. regardless it's a luxury not a necessity, as 6 core will be.

What it boils down to is this is an enthusiast forum and enthusiasts want the best there is to offer which is why LGA1156 simply does not appeal to them, yes it's a good platform for those who do not upgrade often, but it's not going to offer much in the way of upgrades compared to LGA1366 and AM3 (which as enthusiast platforms are both at the cutting edge).
 
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mmj_uk said:
You're right but it's not really about needs, nobody in this thread really needs a quad core but they will try to justify it "oh but I do some encoding" etc. regardless it's a luxury not a necessity, as 6 core will be.
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I do need it. Id rather not sit here for 2 weeks rendering when something does it in half the time. my i7 renders nearly double the speed my q6600 used too, so good upgrade imo.
 
mmj_uk said:
You're right but it's not really about needs, nobody in this thread really needs a quad core but they will try to justify it "oh but I do some encoding" etc. regardless it's a luxury not a necessity, as 6 core will be.
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thats not entirely true. some people on here use their pc for work, therefore if you can get a job done in half the time it means you can get twice as much done, allowing the ability to do more jobs in one day, and lower labour charges.
and in essance, im sure a lot of people uses on here that only do web browsing and basic office applications would still get away with a single core cpu, meaning the 1156 is pointless for them too.
 
I think that was intels fault, as one the old platform LGA775, you could fit 90% of the range of cpus available, now you can't as the mainstream/gamer chipset and high performance platforms are on different sockets.

and I think thats were this "snobbishness" is coming from, cos they see the i7 X58 as premium hardware over the p55/I5, it wouldn't happen if they kept them both on the same socket

unlike AMD
 
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yeh like some1 said earlier, I think itz cos enthusiasts like to go for the faster platform, even though certain features like triple channel ram don't make much of an impact in most things
 
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