LGA 1356... really?

[GammaLaser]

Don't know if anything changed but the E5-2600 series was to use LGA2011 and the E5-2400 series use LGA1356. Don't think any of these Xeons have been released yet though?

 

[Rvenger]

BD is AM3+ not AM3. Thats one of the things that pissed me off so much since AMD originally announced it would be AM3 compatable.

They at least tried to make it AM3, right? lol

 

[IntelUser2000]

Don't know if anything changed but the E5-2600 series was to use LGA2011 and the E5-2400 series use LGA1356. Don't think any of these Xeons have been released yet though?

The LGA1356 Xeons are very real. From what's out there though the TDPs are limited to 95W. The LGA2011 Xeons are coming in March, LGA1356 probably in a similar timeframe.

Edit: Intel seems to be positioning LGA1356 against Socket C32 Opterons and LGA2011 against Socket G34 Opterons:

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2011/..._Opteron_6200_and_4200_series_processors.html

 

[Makaveli]

agreed, s775 had a lot of ho-hum early CPUs and was ultimately defined by its plethora of chipsets, it didn't really matter that the socket lasted forever because it was more than likely you either had to or would want to upgrade the entire motherboard anyway because of a newer and vastly improved chipset. Really the platform as a whole wasn't truly noteworthy until P35, but even then there was eventually X38, P45 and X48 to entice us into continually upgrading our motherboards up until the end of s775

really it just goes to show how amazingly awesome s1366 and X58 has been and has spoiled us. I'm sure there are still plenty of extremely happy campers who decided to pull the trigger and become an early adopter of an i7 920 rig with an X58 motherboard around this time in 2008 and are still more than content with the level of performance they have to this day. Throw in the occasional DDR3 upgrades/expansions and maybe a 5800 series card at the end of 2009 and we're looking at what had to have been one of the most future-resistant platforms of all time.

Socket 939 might have had a similar run if AMD would have never bothered with s754 in the first place.

Couldn't have said it any better myself friend.

My build is from Oct 2009 and it has allowed me to totally skip the current version of SB. And I may skip IVY and go straight to haswell. And guess what my previous system was a socket 939 Opteron. The last two builds have lasted me longer than anything i've had to this day. I'm been very happy with my building strategy that i've been improving over the years.