If you ignore the Core i7 8xx series yes, that would be the case. And even though they haven't said much about that series lately, with OEM adoption being pretty high for the i7 8xx chips, I seriously doubt there won't be more chips in that line. Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Elliot B. Posted February 26, CentralDogma Like Loading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options I think is more worthy investment for a long run.
The performance gap between this socket and decreases exponentially if you are able to buy a K series socket processor and overclock it. This socket is the most powerful in terms of efficiency per core. However, the hexacore options for the Socket will overtake this socket any day when performing most tasks.
Pros of the Socket Best price to performance ratio Integrated graphics option H Series Chipset Most efficient use of cores New socket that will last for a while Supports modern video cards and technologies and will for some time.
It seems like not long ago that Intel just released Socket to the public. This socket was the prior mainstream socket. With the advent of Socket Sandybridge , this socket is now being phased out. You will be at the end of the road. Pros of Socket Good performance Steadily decreasing in price Good lineup of options. Cons of Socket Being phased out already!
You will get good performance nonetheless. This socket should only be considered by those of you who limit yourself to tasks such as watching videos on youtube, performing light gaming or gaming on medium settings. Even if you want to do some photo shop, video editing, 3d animation, etc. The same can be said about Socket If you already have socket and want to upgrade, then wait till Socket comes out and lowers the price of the other sockets.
If you have socket , then you will find a great performance increase when jumping to or Deciding between and ? The price savings is more than worth it. Especially considering is a dying socket. Get a K series CPU and overclock it.
To find the some of the best deals, shop through Newegg and Amazon. Remember to look at other user reviews as well. You can read our article comparing Intel's most relevant sockets now. You can read Intel Socket vs vs vs here. Too bad that currently Rev. Only XFire so far? Come on already! And how many video cards did you plan on having? Wannab Good question. I should have answered that in the article. If you can wait then I highly suggest you do.
One of the best features of the socket sandybridge is its per-core efficiency. There's a LOT more bandwidth in a machine. But the chips are a touch anemic compared to the flavor unless you spend a lot of money. You should only go i7 if you know you want something it offers. I doubt very much that you'd have a reliable system if you bumped the clock that much on a Lynnfield. It's not very flexible. Pretty simply, I'm in the "ordinary computer users" category as given above.
I'm likely never going to have more than one high-bandwidth device, so the lack of PCI-e lanes is fine for me. Accordingly, the ability to upgrade to a SIX core processor is really unnecessary, and if my previous rigs bear any indication of my upgrade pattern, the CPU is rarely, if ever, targeted for upgrade. Combined with the reduced heat and power consumption, i5 or i7 on P55 would be pretty much a match for my needs- a desktop, not a workstation.
As for the cost differential, it's not that significant now, but I imagine P55 boards will drop in price fairly soon though that makes the timing even less applicable to my situation. All that stated, there's an argument to be made for me being a bit of an idiot for buying an X58 system in the first place when an AM3 system would cover all needs and then some I just read that if you have ANY PCIe card in the second slot on a P55 motherboard, even if it's a 1x sound card or wifi card I have one of those it drops the video card down to 8x.
Can anyone confirm? The CPU can do 1 x16 or 2 x8. I don't speak from a position of authority, but if a board has 2 physical x16 slots that are electrically x8 from the CPU controller and you put any card in that slot instead of the 8 other slots that could be supported on the board from the p55 chipset then yes, I'd guess that both x16 CPU slots would downgrade to x8 if either was x16 in the first place.
Maybe in the future it could be significant. Anandtech showed some performance hits, but true, most games didn't seem to notice. That's how X handled it. Not sure why this is considered a surprise What about regular 'ol PCI? Yea, but the p55 has shit bandwidth. Fortunately, that's not the way most applications work. Chipset manufacturers are a lot like network designers.
There's no reason to, as it's something that "won't happen. I purchased X58 and I7 , happily runing at 3. Also, what about USB 3. And it just so turns out, the bandwidth between that northbridge down to the southbridge is So we're not losing anything by moving to the LGA world. Whether or not Intel should have made the DMI connection faster than what it's replacing instead of going the same speed, that's another question entirely. I can't. I don't expect a USB 3. The LGA socket is the "performance" segment platform, shared with the dual-socket server platform.
The LGA socket is the "mainstream" socket for single-socket desktops and servers. This is a highly integrated platform, where the reduction in the number of DDR3 channels from three to two as well as a reduction in the number of PCI Express Graphics lanes from 36 to 16 allows the PCI Express controller to be integrated onto the processor socket itself.
This leaves us with CPU dies and northbridge both completely on the processor socket; the only link to off-socket core logic is DMI, to what is now effectively just the southbridge P A note about the upcoming Westmere generation processor codenamed Clarkdale. This will also use LGA , but will come with integrated graphics. The dies are linked using QuickPath.
So you effectively have the processor and northbridge on discrete dies linked via an interconnect QuickPath , where the northbridge now on the CPU package connects to the southbridge.
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