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est:
You act like the 775 is a dying platform, but it is going to be around for a while yet.  Intel are shit-canning the LGA1366 socket in favour of another that hasn't been released yet, so it'll take a while to gain traction.  Intel cpus are still superior to AMD's for the time being, so why wouldn't someone choose a 775 board?

MrBlu:
To get a AM3 X2, you'd have to spend $100 on the CPU, another $100 on the motherboard, and ANOTHER $100 on decent DDR3 RAM to gain a marginal performance increase over a $75 LGA 775 board, a $120 CPU, and about $30 to $40 on some DDR2 RAM.

Pass.

Reed:

--- Quote from: est on 21 Jun 2009, 01:42 ---You act like the 775 is a dying platform, but it is going to be around for a while yet.  Intel are shit-canning the LGA1366 socket in favour of another that hasn't been released yet, so it'll take a while to gain traction.  Intel cpus are still superior to AMD's for the time being, so why wouldn't someone choose a 775 board?

--- End quote ---

LGA 1156 is coming out later this year. I really doubt that they will release another batch of LGA 775 CPU's. There are phenom II's that match C2D and C2Q's at every price point except for the extreme editions. AM3 will be around for the next few years, with plenty more phenom II's in the pipleine.

And Mr. Blu, you can get a gigabyte AM3 for about $80, so there really isn't much of a price difference considering the upgrade potential for an AM3 board compared to an LGA 775

Nodaisho:
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:? <--- My head.

Looks like I'll just be getting a motherboard, then, and saving for a processor (unless it would be better to get 3 gigs RAM and use a 3.4ghz/1mb/800FSB P4 processor for even longer). Would the one I linked be a good choice, or is there something else I should get that will last longer before obsolescence?

est:
btw, I was incorrect when I said earlier that the LGA1366 was being nixed.  It's the current batch of i7's that are being nixed.  The 1156 and 1366 sockets are gonna be the things used by the upcoming i3, i5 and future i7s later this year.

I guess that my main problem is that I don't understand why anyone would use AMD cpus at the moment.  I know someone's got to buy them or else we'll wind up with Intel in an even more dominant position, but that person is not gonna be me.

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