Thread: Cannot Decide Between 1156 or 1366 Chipset??

There's nothing entry level about X58 - what do you believe to be "entry level" hardware? i7 CPUs are more or less the similar price despite of socket, triple-channel RAM isn't a huge deal more luxurious than dual-channel and basically most X58 boards are all great (it's only extra attributes akin to overclocking and multiple graphics cards that place them apart). Everything else that goes into a system is the similar despite of platform.

Most triple channel RAM kits are robust sufficient to tighten the timings up anyway, plus you don't perceive much of a real-world dissimilarity with RAM speed or timings with i7 anyway - the sweet spot is 1600MHz at CAS8.

The main dissimilarity between the two is that your 1366 socket systems provide you access simply to 50% more memory (total) - the extra channel is not pertinent presentation wise at present but is in volume.

The second dissimilarity is you will be considering a 6-core processor soon for socket 1366 and there is no information of any 6-core processor coming to 1156, and I think the extra memory channel will kick in lastly and help feed 6-core + ht etc.

Don't bound on the coming up bandwagon. Unless 32nm is launched this year or very untimely next year I don’t suggest waiting. Waiting to purchase a PC is like a virus, you wait a long time for something to appear and then you perceive something else about to come out and wait for that and ultimately you end up waiting and waiting and 10 years go by and you don't buy a PC, some people really do this. Decide what you desire from what is available and out right now, do explore and purchase. There will at all times be something better the next day but that’s how it works.