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but wouldnt that mean if i do go for that mother board ill have to change most of my stuff and also would mean my pc would cost more cause the price were its at is perfect

just do what ur budget suggests. Personally, I'd be wary of i7...not sure how long they intend to keep i7's around. Dont leave out AMD, they got some good prices and as far as cpus go at the moment I do believe they are maxed out, applications are still catching up on quad core really.

P55 chipset i7s are only faster than the 1366 socket x58 i7's in single threaded apps,(and only when speed stepping is disabled on the older i7's) BUT not as fast as the older i7's in multi threaded apps. If you want to go tri sli in the future the x58 is the only way to go. P55 i7 are to expensive for what you get. If your talking tri channel mem stick with the x58 chipset i7920, cheaper and will OC every bit as much as the newer 1156 i7's and with more head room left at that level.
Socket 1156 i5 & i7 were released to bring a mid priced i7 to the market because they were to run duel channel mem and not tri, so as the i5/i7 has the mem controller built in to the cpu, and designed for duel channel i would be sus going with the p55 set up in tri channel.

lol sorry u dont realy understand

There is a advantage to having a memory controller on you CPU less lagg for 1 and not having a North bridge, as the graphics cards are connect directly to the FSB this said you can overclock a socket 1156 CPU futher that a socket 1366, as the only thing that u need to keep cool is the CPU and not the north bridge. 1 advantage that a socket 1366 has over a socket 1156 is that it has more pins on the cpu meaning that it needs a bigger FSB or QPI link as more infromation is going to be send to and from the CPU giving it more Gflops/s processing power ARNY is right when it comes to that a socket 1156 is faster in single threaded apps i dont knw what the advantages of having TRI channel DDR3 is over DUAL channel

Um i may be wrong but i do beleave the socket 1366 has no north bridge as such. It's memory controller is also locted on the cpu, hence the reason intel recomended 1.65v max for the memory volts. The north bridge is still on these boards but not use as it was origanally with the 775 socket boards. As for the duel v tri memory, you have greater band width with the tri channel. If you look at any of the bench test between the i7 870 and the i7 950 when tested with a game like crysis you will see the diff in the two set up's. This is were the tri channel comes in.
Oh and buy the way i understand perfectly.

K mayby i screwed thing up here for you a bit, truly i think you shud just go for a Core i7 920 and a socket 1366 and this is the last post of this thread.




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Yer sorry base we may have got off topic abit there. as illicit has pointed out ether of the current i7 set ups will be along way better than your current set up. The main diff as far as whats needed for the two sockets is as follows
socket 1156 CPU i5 or i7860 / 870, Cpu cooler to fit 1156 board, duel channel memory so 4 sticks of memory max.
socket 1366 CPU i7 920 / 950 / 975, Cpu cooler to fit 1366 board, tri channel memory so 6 sticks of memory max .
Both boards use DDR 3 memory, as for the rest of the gear you have desided on using it should all still stay the same.

ok 1 last thing is this a good PSU to get with the connections and stuff

Corsair CMPSU-950TX 950W

950W \" Corsair\" TX-950 ATX Power Supply, 140mm fan, 6 Connectors of PCI-E 6+2 pin, 12 x SATA Connectors, Universal AC input 90~264V

yep, should do the trick.

sweet thanks

ok i went to the shop today to pivk up my motherboard and the guy said that they dont sell them anymore but he said they will be getting a new mother board in it will be cheaper but better that the other one it a Gigabyte P55A UD6 here a link http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3234

ive looked it up and im sure its compatible for all the parts im getting but i wouldnt mind someone to tell me if im wrong or not and also is it actually better than the original one i was getting Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4 x58