I have an Intel i7-930 and x58 chipset based system ... enthusiasts level. I'm thinking of giving this system to my "gamer" wife and building another for myself ... future proofed as much as possible.
I'm having some trouble finding the Intel roadmaps. It almost looks like Socket-2011 is dead? We went from x79 to z77. Has the enthusiasts desktop or extreme gamer platform been deleted from Intel's roadmap?
Maybe normal desktop is so good now, if you want more for gaming or workstation ... you move up to Xeon and workstation/server board (which I likely would not do ... I have a budget and still need to buy some more large IPS based LCDs).
What chipset should I be looking at or waiting for? Somewhere on the "tock" side of the tick-tock I think, right?
I'm thinking of a build like this ... best Intel desktop processor (maybe a clock step-down to same some bucks ... but same architecture). Best AMD video card released at time of purchase. I want at least one x16 PCIe v3.0 slot ... maybe two. Quad channel memory. Full ATX tower with closed-loop liquid cooling (maybe even liquid cool the video card).
Since I can't have a Sig. yet, I will edit and post it here:
Intel i7-930 Quad (2.8 Ghz) ~ X58 chipset ~ Asetek liquid cooler ~ 12gb ddr3-1333 tri-channel ram ~ ATI-AMD HD-5870 1gb ~ 256gb Samsung 830 SSD / 1tb WD 7200rpm HDD ~ LG-BluRay burner ~ PCIe USB 3.0 ~ 875w PS ~ Dell 24" UltraSharp u2410 LCD ~ Dell 22" LCD ~ Win-7 Ultimate 64-bit
I'm having some trouble finding the Intel roadmaps. It almost looks like Socket-2011 is dead? We went from x79 to z77. Has the enthusiasts desktop or extreme gamer platform been deleted from Intel's roadmap?
Maybe normal desktop is so good now, if you want more for gaming or workstation ... you move up to Xeon and workstation/server board (which I likely would not do ... I have a budget and still need to buy some more large IPS based LCDs).
What chipset should I be looking at or waiting for? Somewhere on the "tock" side of the tick-tock I think, right?
I'm thinking of a build like this ... best Intel desktop processor (maybe a clock step-down to same some bucks ... but same architecture). Best AMD video card released at time of purchase. I want at least one x16 PCIe v3.0 slot ... maybe two. Quad channel memory. Full ATX tower with closed-loop liquid cooling (maybe even liquid cool the video card).
Since I can't have a Sig. yet, I will edit and post it here:
Intel i7-930 Quad (2.8 Ghz) ~ X58 chipset ~ Asetek liquid cooler ~ 12gb ddr3-1333 tri-channel ram ~ ATI-AMD HD-5870 1gb ~ 256gb Samsung 830 SSD / 1tb WD 7200rpm HDD ~ LG-BluRay burner ~ PCIe USB 3.0 ~ 875w PS ~ Dell 24" UltraSharp u2410 LCD ~ Dell 22" LCD ~ Win-7 Ultimate 64-bit
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