Well looks about the right time for my first post here.

What's with the 1355 socket mentioned in the last few posts? I've heard something about it in the past but thought that intel got rid of it and only lga1155 and lga2011 were to made it. What's it gonna bring to the table?

Anyone have any idea what the actual "core name" is gonna be for initial 1155 sandy? I mean like what bloomfield is to nehalem or gulftown to westmere for instance.

I'm totally for sandy compared to the current i7 bloomfield lineup(9xx included) as far as you didn't already own one. I'm gonna play the waiting game here with sandy hope it's the right choice. Just the rumored prices need to end up real. The only thing I kind of dislike is the limited PCI-e lines and the dual channel memory( 6 gigs seemed more in the right spot for me than either 4 or 8 gigs available now). And I hope that bulldozer is a nice leap for AMD too. It's only gonna bring better cpus in the future for everyone.