LGA 1366 Vs LGA1155

[Ralm]

Hi all again,

Im about to buy a brand new machine with the next specs:

Rampage III Extreme

Intel i7950

Gskill PI 1600Mhz DDR3 Triple channel 1.5v Cl7 (7-8-8-24)

Gigabyte GTX580

OCZ revodrive x4 80Gb + WD1002FAEX 1Tb 64Mb cache SataIII(HDD)

Corsair HX1000 (powersupply)

Coolermaster HAF-X (case)

Noctua NH-D14

(I will OC everything)

So my question is: should I wait for the new boards with LGA1155 Socket to use a i5 2500k. Losing the Tripple memmory??

The proble is that I will problably pay more too. New Stuff = Expensive. And at the momment Im at MAX MAX budget usage.

Hoping for help,

Ralm

Thanks

 

[Aurus_OC]

Hi all again,

Im about to buy a brand new machine with the next specs:

Rampage III Extreme

Intel i7950

Gskill PI 1600Mhz DDR3 Triple channel 1.5v Cl7 (7-8-8-24)

Gigabyte GTX580

OCZ revodrive x4 80Gb + WD1002FAEX 1Tb 64Mb cache SataIII(HDD)

Corsair HX1000 (powersupply)

Coolermaster HAF-X (case)

Noctua NH-D14

(I will OC everything)

So my question is: should I wait for the new boards with LGA1155 Socket to use a i5 2500k. Losing the Tripple memmory??

The proble is that I will problably pay more too. New Stuff = Expensive. And at the momment Im at MAX MAX budget usage.

Hoping for help,

Ralm

Thanks

Whether you choose 1155 or 1366 is basically up to you. Do you need triple channel ram (doing extensive photoshopping, rendering stuff like that)? If you are more into gaming and normal use dual channel memory will be just fine. Do you want to be able to overclock the baseclock of your CPU, then 1366 is for you. Overclocking on 1155 is limited to the K editions and only the turbo mode can be overclocked by adjusting the multiplier for that. Also memory overclocking is going to be quite limited with 1155 because you can't up the baseclock to something comfortable like 200. With 1366 it's possible.

However 1155 chips (the i7 950 equivalent) are cheaper, if you choose the 2500K which seems to be the chip to have for normal use and gaming. Also 1155 boards are cheaper than the 1366 ones aswell. You can get for example a Asus P8P67 Deluxe for 200€ (150 GBP).

If you want to go down the 1366 route,

Do you want to overclock using dice or extreme liquid cooling? Then the Rampage III Extreme is great. If you just want to overclock using air cooling or moderate water cooling I would suggest saving some money and take a look at the Asus Sabertooth or the Gigabyte UD3R V2. Both of those are very solid boards with great overclocking abilities and features. The i7 950 is the chip of choice, so keep that one.

Either way you are going to have one amazing system

Your powersupply, case and CPU cooler choice are great and I think everyone could recommend those.

Two last notes, in either configuration you may want to have a look at some Mushkin ram, they perform outstanding at a reasonable price. The Gskill are good aswell, but just want to give you some other suggestions. Also ditch that Revodrive for a Kingston V+ or a Corsair Force SSDs, because I doubt you are going to need the extra performance that the Revodrive offers over those two. Pretty much any SSD is going to be amazingly fast when compared to a traditional HDD.

Just my 2 cents,

 

[tinytomlogan]

Whether you choose 1155 or 1366 is basically up to you. Do you need triple channel ram (doing extensive photoshopping, rendering stuff like that)? If you are more into gaming and normal use dual channel memory will be just fine. Do you want to be able to overclock the baseclock of your CPU, then 1366 is for you. Overclocking on 1155 is limited to the K editions and only the turbo mode can be overclocked by adjusting the multiplier for that. Also memory overclocking is going to be quite limited with 1155 because you can't up the baseclock to something comfortable like 200. With 1366 it's possible.

However 1155 chips (the i7 950 equivalent) are cheaper, if you choose the 2500K which seems to be the chip to have for normal use and gaming. Also 1155 boards are cheaper than the 1366 ones aswell. You can get for example a Asus P8P67 Deluxe for 200€ (150 GBP).

If you want to go down the 1366 route,

Do you want to overclock using dice or extreme liquid cooling? Then the Rampage III Extreme is great. If you just want to overclock using air cooling or moderate water cooling I would suggest saving some money and take a look at the Asus Sabertooth or the Gigabyte UD3R V2. Both of those are very solid boards with great overclocking abilities and features. The i7 950 is the chip of choice, so keep that one.

Either way you are going to have one amazing system

Your powersupply, case and CPU cooler choice are great and I think everyone could recommend those.

Two last notes, in either configuration you may want to have a look at some Mushkin ram, they perform outstanding at a reasonable price. The Gskill are good aswell, but just want to give you some other suggestions. Also ditch that Revodrive for a Kingston V+ or a Corsair Force SSDs, because I doubt you are going to need the extra performance that the Revodrive offers over those two. Pretty much any SSD is going to be amazingly fast when compared to a traditional HDD.

Just my 2 cents,

Thats actually some very good advice, some one has been listening in class

 

[Ralm]

XD. The thing is that I will buy the stuff at reseller (is that the right term??) price. So will be cheaper. This because of the Revodrive. Honestly idont know. But is a major diference. And the point is cant I wait 2 sec more and save 40€?? yea Maybe yes. Comparing with the OCZ Vertex 2 but I found out the Corsair Force Series 120 at a way cheaper with the same performance, so probably I will go to that one.

About the topic. The 1155 socket processors version hasnt reach Portugal yet. I dont really know the price to compare.

About the motherboard to LGA1366, what you think about the Asus P6X58D Premium? (is less50€ that the rampage)

Well dunno, I saw tom video about the processors and all Ive got tho say is: OMG =) But we need to think that was an extreme OC, if I have it I will stay at 4.6Ghz.

 

[Ralm]

I didnt got part about memory in 1155 socket. You cant take advantage of the 1600Mhz for example???

(Im a totally newbie in OC)

 

[Aurus_OC]

XD. The thing is that I will buy the stuff at reseller (is that the right term??) price. So will be cheaper. This because of the Revodrive. Honestly idont know. But is a major diference. And the point is cant I wait 2 sec more and save 40€?? yea Maybe yes. Comparing with the OCZ Vertex 2 but I found out the Corsair Force Series 120 at a way cheaper with the same performance, so probably I will go to that one.

About the topic. The 1155 socket processors version hasnt reach Portugal yet. I dont really know the price to compare.

About the motherboard to LGA1366, what you think about the Asus P6X58D Premium? (is less50€ that the rampage)

Well dunno, I saw tom video about the processors and all Ive got tho say is: OMG =) But we need to think that was an extreme OC, if I have it I will stay at 4.6Ghz.

I guess manufacturer would be the right term but I get what you are saying

Considering the revo drive. As far as I know the Revodrive is pretty much several SSDs in a Raid 0 configuration in 2.5" format. The advantage would be the gained speed from putting them in Raid 0. The disadvantage will be that the drive will be degrade in speed over time, because the garbage collection in Raid configs is not quite where it should be yet. So in your case the Corsair Force will be the best buy imho.

The socket 1155 processors aren't available for sale until the 9th of January (tomorrow) anyways, so they are going to be available everywhere shortly after that. Considering performance you can check out the Review on the 2300, 2500 K and 2600 K here at OC3D. But in a nutshell the result is that the 2500K (210€ in Germany) beats the 950 in most applications at stock as well as overclocked. The 1155 CPUs (only the K editions) can be overclocked to 4.6 GHZ at no sweat really easy. They won't get immensly hot either, especially with the NH-D14 on it. For Motherboard there are many good boards to choose from. For myself I bought the Asus P8P67 Deluxe, which was around 190€. The Asus P8P67 Evo, aswell as the Gigabyte UD4P look like great boards to me aswell. They are all sub 200€ boards. The Asus P8P67 Deluxe being the most expensive.

From what you are saying you are not going to need triple channel ram or the baseclock overclocking that 1366 offers that much, so I would recommend going with 1155 as soon as it is available in Portugal. It's not available in Germany yet either, however I preordered all my stuff.

The Asus P6X58D Premium is a great board aswell, however I would honestly go with the ASUS Sabertooth if you still decide to go down the 1366 route for whatever reason. The Sabertooth is a much newer board and beats the P6X58D in a lot of tests.

Concerning memory, you will be able to take advantage of 1600MHz ram with Socket 1155 aswell. The supported options are 1333,1600,1866,2133 Mhz if I am correct. However you are not going to able to overclock the memory that much, but that's not going to be a big problem in my view. This is because you cannot overclock the baseclock of the 1155 in the way you are able to on 1366. A 200 Baseclock,, which gave you a good result tie in for your ram, will not be possible on 1155. Memory on 1155 will run in dual channel mode, which means you are using two of the same sticks. 1366 supports triple channel mode, meaning you are using 3 sticks for triple channel. But in games right now the difference in frames per second really comes from the graphics card and to some part from the processor. The 2500K and a Nvidia GTX 580 are a great combo for gaming or pretty much everything else.

But in the end it is your decision and it would be great to know what you are using your computer for, because that will clear some stuff up.

 

[Ya93sin]

i heard ivy bridge (22nm cpu lineup) from intel later this year/early 2012 will be backwards compatible with the LGA1155 socket, so if you are thinking long term, 1155 will work out cheaper.

 

[Aurus_OC]

i heard ivy bridge (22nm cpu lineup) from intel later this year/early 2012 will be backwards compatible with the LGA1155 socket, so if you are thinking long term, 1155 will work out cheaper.

Don't take that for granted, because I don't think there are any confirmed informations yet, but that would be pretty cool.

 

[Ya93sin]

yeah im not sure about it, and it would be interesting bearing in mind ivy bridge is going down to 22nm.perhaps they plan to keep 1155 for a little while

 

[Ralm]

But in the end it is your decision and it would be great to know what you are using your computer for, because that will clear some stuff up.

Well I will use for gamming, Photoshop and Premier editing (Not very intensive at all, is not main usage).

 

[Kazarm]

i heard ivy bridge (22nm cpu lineup) from intel later this year/early 2012 will be backwards compatible with the LGA1155 socket, so if you are thinking long term, 1155 will work out cheaper.

Don't take that for granted, because I don't think there are any confirmed informations yet, but that would be pretty cool.

yeah im not sure about it, and it would be interesting bearing in mind ivy bridge is going down to 22nm.perhaps they plan to keep 1155 for a little while

According to Fuad It will be the same socket, but you cannot use your old motherboard with the new CPU.

 

[timby]

Thats actually some very good advice, some one has been listening in class

Hey Tom I thought that new Gigabyte MB allowed you to OC using BCLK? See, I watch your vids....