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End Of The Road for X58

If Intel continues to release new chipsets sockets with each new processor family iteration I'm probably going to punch a baby. I'm glad Ivy Bridge is supposed to be backwards-compatible on LGA1155. If only AMD's performance were a little better...

EDIT: sockets, not chipsets
 
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LOL_Wut_Axel said:
That would mean it lasted for around three-and-a-half years. That's a lot in the technology world...
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Lasted, but not relevant the whole time. Since 1366, Intel has released 1156, 1155, and soon 2011. That's four chipsetssockets in three years. Socket 775 was relevant for almost three all by itself.

EDIT: sockets, not chipsets
 
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Aflac said:
Lasted, but not relevant the whole time. Since 1366, Intel has released 1156, 1155, and soon 2011. That's four chipsets in three years. Socket 775 was relevant for almost three all by itself.
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It's been relevant for when it launched to now that it's gonna be replaced, so I guess around three years is more like it. Still a lot.

And no, LGA 1155 did not make LGA 1366 irrelevant. 1366 is still much better for servers and enthusiasts that have multi-threaded workloads.
 
Aflac said:
Lasted, but not relevant the whole time. Since 1366, Intel has released 1156, 1155, and soon 2011. That's four chipsets in three years. Socket 775 was relevant for almost three all by itself.
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It has been top of the line for it's entire life. Seems pretty relevant to me.
 
you really can't make demands like PCIe 3.0, greater-than-triple channel memory, or integrated GPU and then whine at intel for changing the socket. The socket MUST change when you demand ANY new integration.

For K7/P3/P4, all the controller hubs were off-die and the socket did not have to change. So 462 and 775 lasted quite a while. But when everything is on the CPU die, you get more pins and a bigger socket with each generation. That is the norm now, so I do not understand why this has to be explained twice a year.
 
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alyarb said:
you really can't make demands like PCIe 3.0, greater-than-triple channel memory, or integrated GPU and then whine at intel for changing the socket. The socket MUST change when you demand ANY new integration.

For K7/P3/P4, all the controller hubs were off-die and the socket did not have to change. So 462 and 775 lasted quite a while. But when everything is on the CPU die, you get more pins and a bigger socket with each generation. That is the norm now, so I do not understand why this has to be explained twice a year.
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:nods:
 
Aflac said:
Lasted, but not relevant the whole time. Since 1366, Intel has released 1156, 1155, and soon 2011. That's four chipsets in three years. Socket 775 was relevant for almost three all by itself.
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the socket was, but not the total chipset/platform

X58 has been amazing because it would be analogous to if X48 had been released at the begging of 775's reign instead of at the very end
 
I'd rather have a socket die due to advancement, than own a socket that never really lived due to poor performance. AM3, I am looking at you!
 
OCGuy said:
I'd rather have a socket die due to advancement, than own a socket that never really lived due to poor performance. AM3, I am looking at you!
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I never understood how AM3 was considered a long-lived upgrade path. Just because you could drop a CPU into a socket doesn't mean you actually would do it. Gamers with X4 wouldn't care about Thubans, and video encoding/rendering guys wouldn't consider anything AMD until Thuban, by then it is already the dead end for AM3.
 
its being discontinued a year from now? why is that fricken news? do you really think anyone is going to care by the time it stops shipping??
 
Aflac said:
If Intel continues to release new chipsets with each new processor family iteration I'm probably going to punch a baby. I'm glad Ivy Bridge is supposed to be backwards-compatible on LGA1155. If only AMD's performance were a little better...
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Hmm let's see on AM3 we had 690, 790 and 890 chipsets now with 890 rebranded as 990 and sold as AM3+.
 
Best platform I have owned, and it has had amazing longevity considering unless you are an encoder, there is still no tangible upgrade to a highly overclocked 1366 i7.
 
Given that there's no need to replace a CPU more often than four years now (especially with most games being ported from consoles), I don't see a problem.
 
zlejedi said:
Hmm let's see on AM3 we had 690, 790 and 890 chipsets now with 890 rebranded as 990 and sold as AM3+.
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sorry, in my original minirant I meant sockets, not chipsets. I am okay with chipsets advancing because that means new and better features, as long as newer processors are backwards-compatible with older sockets (see: S775, again), but new sockets means a forced motherboard upgrade if you want to upgrade your CPU. I don't like that part.

EDIT: I guess I am all kinds of stupid, I must've gotten confused and thought LGA1366 was the one being EOLed, not X58. Just ignore me here.
 
Grooveriding said:
Best platform I have owned, and it has had amazing longevity considering unless you are an encoder, there is still no tangible upgrade to a highly overclocked 1366 i7.
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I agree and I have a similar setup to yours (well, except for the third 480 and the premium power supply). I'm still feeling a crazy urge to upgrade though after sitting on this platform for so long, but upgrade to what? Z68 and X79 just aren't doing it for me (yet). I don't want to wait until Ivy Bridge. I should be happy with socket 1366's longevity, but I'm feeling very uncertain about a good upgrade path.
 
Bring back Slot1, thats all i ask. That was the easiest thing to upgrade with, and was hasslefree to the user. I guess some technical hurdle made them abandon it?

But damn it, i loved it, i was like plugging in a SNES game. 😀
 
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