greenmedic88 said:
No mention was made of socket 1136. You said X58. That means LGA1366. LGA 1366 will be compatible with future Core i9 Gulftown 6 core CPUs based on Westmere as well as workstation Xeon DP 6 core CPUs. Currently, i7 920 CPUs can be bought for as little as $199 and is well-established as an excellent overclocker. It should be more than fine for the next 2-3 years for the vast majority of users. Yes, but the i7 9xx were Intel's only sub-$1000 line of 1366 chips. There will be no more, as in no possibility for an upgrade except to Xeon DP or Gulftown which will be very expensive, much more than $200/300. 1156 is for the consumer grade motherboards and systems. The triple channel memory of LGA 1366 is preferable for memory intensive applications outside of gaming, assuming the system is also being used for high end application productivity. Yes, but there's no indication the OP will be using it for anything but gaming. If you read reviews, the 1366 memory setup gains 2-5% at most, and that only in the most intensive applications. The most important question to ask for the build is if it's just a gaming machine, or if it's to be used for productivity and/or memory/CPU intensive productivity apps like video encoding/editing, 3D rendering software, etc. Contrary to popular belief, PCs can be and are used for more than just playing games. I know that! If the OP had said it was a workstation my view would have been to recommend an i5 or i7. Or a hexcore Opteron, for that matter. If it's just a gaming machine, more of that $2k would be better spent on a 2560x1440 or multi display set up with the appropriate multi-GPU VGA solution. Agreed. Hence my recommendation of an X4 720/945 and the best GPU you can afford. I'm not getting into AMD processors, not that they aren't cost/performance effective. You can't start making product recommendations only knowing one half of the picture, especially when claiming Intel's socket has more upgrade potential. |
