Building A New Gaming Rig

[tupperware]

There are reasons you might go with a 1366 over 1155, but if you don't know what they are, you probably don't need it.

Tri Channel.. ? Couldn't be too much more than that really, not with 2011 anyway.

 

[arglebargle]

Tri Channel, and stability.

Mostly coming from a professional audio viewpoint. Audio is one of the areas where you can really push the limits on your computer set up. Earlier this year there were all sorts of problems with various 1155motherboards performing quite erratically with large audio setups. These sorts of things are not as extensively tested in advance.

Leading edge setups can get you leading edge problems.

Again, if you aren't already in the field, you probably don't have to consider that decision.

 

[tupperware]

Tri Channel, and stability.

Mostly coming from a professional audio viewpoint. Audio is one of the areas where you can really push the limits on your computer set up. Earlier this year there were all sorts of problems with various 1155motherboards performing quite erratically with large audio setups. These sorts of things are not as extensively tested in advance.

Leading edge setups can get you leading edge problems.

Again, if you aren't already in the field, you probably don't have to consider that decision.

Ah but that's a pretty niche thing, hardly worth advocating it over 1155/2011. The only real benefit I could think of inherent to the platform was Tri Channel. I guess you basically said that though

EDIT: I got the first batch of boards that went out, which are affected by: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,12112.html

I haven't sent it back in yet though, haven't noticed a problem yet.

 

[Jenky]

Tri Channel, and stability.

Mostly coming from a professional audio viewpoint. Audio is one of the areas where you can really push the limits on your computer set up. Earlier this year there were all sorts of problems with various 1155motherboards performing quite erratically with large audio setups. These sorts of things are not as extensively tested in advance.

Leading edge setups can get you leading edge problems.

Again, if you aren't already in the field, you probably don't have to consider that decision.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are probably talking about PCIe bandwidth and lanes to the CPU. That's where LGA 1366 would excel over LGA 1155. LGA 2011 has 40 pcie 3.0 lanes which is even better.

lga 1155 = 16 pcie lanes
lga 1366 = 32 pcie lanes
lga 2011 = 40 pcie lanes

 

[Jenky]

Ah but that's a pretty niche thing, hardly worth advocating it over 1155/2011. The only real benefit I could think of inherent to the platform was Tri Channel. I guess you basically said that though

Yeah, gpus aren't anywhere near saturating pcie 2.0 yet. There's hardly a difference between running them in 16x/16x vs 8x/8x mode.

 

[Jenky]

Ah but that's a pretty niche thing, hardly worth advocating it over 1155/2011. The only real benefit I could think of inherent to the platform was Tri Channel. I guess you basically said that though

EDIT: I got the first batch of boards that went out, which are affected by: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,12112.html

I haven't sent it back in yet though, haven't noticed a problem yet.

Dude! Haha, that was a year ago. Most companies will offer a b3 revision (That's what ASUS calls it) of your motherboard that corrects that problem.

 

[tupperware]

Yeah, gpus aren't anywhere near saturating pcie 2.0 yet. There's hardly a difference between running them in 16x/16x vs 8x/8x mode.

Yep, exactly.

Interesting article: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...s/49646-amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb-review-21.html

 

[tupperware]

Dude! Haha, that was a year ago. Most companies will offer a b3 revision (That's what ASUS calls it) of your motherboard that corrects that problem.

Yeah I know, I was just piggybacking along with what he was saying about bleeding edge and bleeding edge problems.

 

[arglebargle]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are probably talking about PCIe bandwidth and lanes to the CPU. That's where LGA 1366 would excel over LGA 1155. LGA 2011 has 40 pcie 3.0 lanes which is even better.

lga 1155 = 16 pcie lanes
lga 1366 = 32 pcie lanes
lga 2011 = 40 pcie lanes

Yes. 2011 will doubtless end up being better. But a whole bunch of early adopters had problems with audio on the 1155 platform. Though some of that was on poor implementation by the MB builders. It even varied by bios on the exact same MB.

Stability (from an older platform) is real useful in a field where you can't always go back and get that great performance again.

It is definitely a very small niche, and not of import to 99% of the computer buying public. I do some audio, so I paid attention to this when researching upgrading. The level of audio muscle you get with an
i7 processor over the equivalent core2quad (or anything else) is pretty impressive though. Well worth the upgrade, imo. I'd personally just wait til the new chipset shakes out some before leaping in.

 

[StevenOtero]

Thank you for all of the replies, I'll be sure to post what I eventually order.