(30/05/2010 09:17 AM)ProperBritish Wrote:  

(30/05/2010 08:36 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(30/05/2010 08:20 AM)S7* Wrote:  Ah, the 1366-pins support full dual 16x PCI-E slots.. which is great in terms of future expansion.

On the other hand, the motherboards are indeed crazy expensive!

Do you see yourself ever using dual GPUs?

Also, socket 1366 becomes obsolete when Intel's new line comes this Q4 or next year, they're changing sockets (again).

which isn't that bad because when it comes to the point when you need a new CPU, you may as well build a new complete rig

I'm just saying it doesn't have any more of an upgrade path than socket 1156 does.  The only advantage is 3 channel RAM vs 2 channel (which has been tested to give quite negligible speed improvements), and that dual GPU thing Sensei was talking about (which is useless if you don't plan on getting dual GPU).

While 1366 is craploads more expensive than 1156, both the motherboard and RAM (you may as well upgrade your GPU NOW, with the money you save, instead of hoping for a dual GPU upgrade in the future).

Which is why both Zinga and I recommended the i7 860 over the 920.  But meh, whatever, your money not mine, I'm not going to bother wasting any more effort on this as it really isn't anything to do with me.