Upgrade to a socket 1150 cpu or 1151?

[jtvang125]

Looking to upgrade from a Q8400. As you can see I'm not about having the latest and greatest but I'm planning to keep the upgrade for at least another 5 yrs or more.

I'm having trouble deciding if I should stick with a 1150 socket cpu or go with the newer 1151. I think in 5 yrs time even the 1151 socket will be replaced so I don't think going with a 1151 board now will really keep me more current.

What do you guys say?

 

[PhlashFoto]

I say socket 1151 for the DDR4 ram support that has higher capacity DIMMs later on; if for no other reason.

 

[nerp]

If you're planning on getting a motherboard anyway, get a 1151 board. Or keep waiting and watch what unfolds with the next socket release. Honestly, the difference between the current gen and next gen won't be huge. And if you don't plan on upgrading for several years after this upcoming upgrade, it really doesn't matter that much unless you want a 6- or 8-core Kaby Lake chip or whatever else is coming down the pipeline.

 

[Arachnotronic]

1151. Why buy old tech?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Why buy old tech?

Yep. Pretty foolish endeavor to buy old tech. (Unless you have a really good reason, like supporting a PC on a production line or CNC machine.)

...Says the person that was talked into buying up FM1 boards and dual-core CPUs.

Hey, if I can find a buyer, then it wasn't a worthless endeavor, but ... that can be difficult, especially if your buyers are even moderately versed in Tech.

I've used one set as a "teaching aid", to show a friend how to build a PC. If they screw something up, well, I've got a pile of them, and they were (relatively) cheap.

Cheap fun, I guess.

Edit: And for the record, with SSD and plenty of RAM, an FM1 A4-3420 OCed to 3.15Ghz, isn't much different in Win10 than my current G4400 (stock), for web browsing. Seriously.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Looking to upgrade from a Q8400. As you can see I'm not about having the latest and greatest but I'm planning to keep the upgrade for at least another 5 yrs or more.

I'm having trouble deciding if I should stick with a 1150 socket cpu or go with the newer 1151. I think in 5 yrs time even the 1151 socket will be replaced so I don't think going with a 1151 board now will really keep me more current.

What do you guys say?

What is making you consider an upgrade? What area of performance do you think is lacking?

 

[jtvang125]

What is making you consider an upgrade? What area of performance do you think is lacking?

For email, web browsing and photo editing it works just fine. But I enjoy gaming (old and new titles) so I think it's a little outdated now that I want to upgrade my gpu to a RX480. I do have the cpu oc'd to 3.5 but I think it's just so old that it'll bottleneck the new gpu. I'm also eyeing one of those new 21:9 ultra wide screen monitors to replace my ancient Dell 2405 monitor too.

 

[Zstream]

The only CPU worth getting on the 1150 platform is the Haswell v3 1231. If you can get it for $200, get it. I got mine at Microcenter for that price and would purchase again.

It depends on your GPU really, but I'd save money on the platform and get a nice SSD or PSU or whatever.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

For email, web browsing and photo editing it works just fine. But I enjoy gaming (old and new titles) so I think it's a little outdated now that I want to upgrade my gpu to a RX480. I do have the cpu oc'd to 3.5 but I think it's just so old that it'll bottleneck the new gpu. I'm also eyeing one of those new 21:9 ultra wide screen monitors to replace my ancient Dell 2405 monitor too.

Isn't that PCIe Gen 1? If so I think a full platform upgrade would be worth it. You can't go wrong with either 1150 or 1151.

 

[bsp2020]

For email, web browsing and photo editing it works just fine. But I enjoy gaming (old and new titles) so I think it's a little outdated now that I want to upgrade my gpu to a RX480. I do have the cpu oc'd to 3.5 but I think it's just so old that it'll bottleneck the new gpu. I'm also eyeing one of those new 21:9 ultra wide screen monitors to replace my ancient Dell 2405 monitor too.

I suggest that you buy the GPU and try it. You may be pleasantly surprised.

 

[techne]

I suggest that you buy the GPU and try it. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Up to a point, this is the best advice. You are going to buy the GPU anyway, so following his advice you will also buy some more time to wait for new releases and mature a decision. Just my 2 cents.

 

[gammaray]

buy the one you find on sale if it itches you to upgrade. Cos either one for gaming will gives you roughly the same fps.

 

[Yuriman]

1150 motherboards are already starting to increase in price, due to many going out of production. 1151, to my knowledge, will have two more generations of CPUs, and so you can expect at least another two and a half years of new 1151 parts.

 

[luv2liv]

does it matter if you want to stick to windows 7?
because i think only 1151 is supported by windows 10 going forward right?

 

[VirtualLarry]

does it matter if you want to stick to windows 7?
because i think only 1151 is supported by windows 10 going forward right?

I think you have that the wrong way around. Win10 supports all legacy hardware that is compatible. Windows 7 has *limited* (according to MS, at least) support for 1151. All prior platforms are fully supported by Win7.