Socket 1366 is obsolete

[s3rv3r]

Conclusion

Let's keep it simple: the Socket 1366 platform is obsolete. The turbo modes are very limiting and the three channel memory setup gives only a slight advantage. Of course, Socket 1366 CPUs don't come cheap either. The quite new i5 CPU is much easier to overclock and it's not that hard to achieve higher memory speeds.

Considering system cost, then the P55 platform is the clear winner. We have already proven that Hyperthreading/SMT is more or less a marketing gimmick. It works only with very few applications and in highly optimized applications such as x264 or games, it decreases performance. That's also the reason why we did not consider to use the i7-800 CPU series for this review.

Looking for the best performance money can buy, we recommend the i5-750 CPU. If you need SLI or Crossfire, shop for boards with an additional NF200 chip to get the most out of your two graphics cards, otherwise the P55 does just fine.


Source:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16729/1/

[JohnZS]

Le Fud!
What a load of old nonsense.. it's far from obsolete!

[HKPolice]

[Helloworld_98]

have you compared prices of P55 vs X58 in the UK?

X58 is a good bit cheaper if you go for an i7 CPU, and even 920 vs 750 is close in price.

1366 isn't going anywhere soon, the market is already far more established than 1156, and most people would rather get a new CPU than a whole new PC because you save a few $100 or $1000.

[highoctane]

Well I better sell my 1366 parts before they depreciate due to obsolescence and upgrade to i5!!

[JohnZS]

Well I better sell my 1366 parts before they depreciate due to obsolescence and upgrade to i5!!

Better still, go Socket 775 and Pentium 4....... you know you want to

[Wiggy McShades]

my 920 setup cost only 100 more and it will support 6 core cpu's in the future, has more pci-e lanes, and tri channel memory. but the i5 is much better.

[JohnZS]

Perhaps they aught to do a hybrid socket board with 1156 and 1366 that way you could have an i5 now... and then plonk in an i9 further down the line

[IronWarrior]

Eliot Kucharik is a idiot, enough said.

[Katanai]

I don't know why you people insist on posting garbage from that site.

That's the only thing I hate about this forum, ing fruitzilla shins.

We don't really care what those retards dreamed up last night and posted on their ty site.

Just stop clogging this forum with stupid like this!!!

If I would have a say, I would ban all you bots and shins...

[p2501]

Behold, they mentioned the word _review_ in this narrative of an alphabet-soup-reading-session gone horribly wrong.

Fud.

[RejZoR]

LGA1366 boards can run 2x PCIe 16x. That is X58. One of the reasons why i decided for more expensive platform. So it doesn't really matter where is my GFX card and where my PCIe soundcard... Besides, 4 cores and 8 threads is pure pwnage no matter how you turn it.

[Mabyboi]

if 1366 is obsolete, so are the 5870 and 5970.

/thread.

[Lokinhow]

Oh my god

It's a joke...it must be a joke

[DavyBoy]

Oh my.. utter nonsence!!!

[[XC] gomeler]

What a load of tosh. Why in the hell would you post such dribble? Must work for the garbage weavers..

not sure if this thread should be killed off or closed, we'll see if another mod can be more decisive.

[kiwi]

Well, he probably meant obsolete for the average consumer.

1156 is cheaper but offers pretty much same performance CPC and consumes less W. So why buy 1366?

1366 is good only if you go for absolute WR or will buy gulftown XE. There should be cheaper 1366 xeons but they wont be as cheap i5 anyway. Besides we have yet to see how well i5 32nm perform and overclock (oh well, we know already 4.5-4.7 on air is possible)

[grimREEFER]

saying hyperthreading is worse for x264 has to just be a lie. maybe on the first pass it is, but overall, it must make thing much faster.

and of course, as others have mentioned, it's insanely ironic to call the platform with corei9 coming up the outdated one.

[Blacky]

then i9's are obsolete!

[generics_user]

bad article bad conclusion

i7 is the way to go and if you don't have enough money for that (or if you are a gamer and dont want to burn that much money for almost no benefit in gaming) AMD is a better choice as they have a better more future proof platform with real pcielanes instead of this nf200 crap

[Bei Fei]

For the average user the i5 is enough, but for e-peen and raw power the i7 is best.

[highoctane]

then i9's are obsolete!

RIGHT, whats up with that, the shizzle is obsolete before it even hits retail!!!

[Reznik Akime]

It's not obsolete. It's just a bit more than what most need at the moment. This guy is supposed to be a journalist?

[RejZoR]

saying hyperthreading is worse for x264 has to just be a lie. maybe on the first pass it is, but overall, it must make thing much faster.

and of course, as others have mentioned, it's insanely ironic to call the platform with corei9 coming up the outdated one.

HyperThreading was bad on P4 chips because of long pipelines and small cache size. But today, pipelines are much shorter and cache size significantly larger.
Gains are quite noticeable, especially in programs that support several threads.

[Hornet331]

Conclusion

Let's keep it simple: the Socket 1366 platform is obsolete. The turbo modes are very limiting and the three channel memory setup gives only a slight advantage. Of course, Socket 1366 CPUs don't come cheap either. The quite new i5 CPU is much easier to overclock and it's not that hard to achieve higher memory speeds.

Considering system cost, then the P55 platform is the clear winner. We have already proven that Hyperthreading/SMT is more or less a marketing gimmick. It works only with very few applications and in highly optimized applications such as x264 or games, it decreases performance. That's also the reason why we did not consider to use the i7-800 CPU series for this review.

Looking for the best performance money can buy, we recommend the i5-750 CPU. If you need SLI or Crossfire, shop for boards with an additional NF200 chip to get the most out of your two graphics cards, otherwise the P55 does just fine.


Source:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16729/1/

this for fuad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkWH8DB7b0