X79 PCI lanes, Non-GPU PCI-e cards, and X79 vs Z77 build

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Intel announces Haswell. It then shows a processor, that is not the same as the 1155 layout. To my knowledge, they never say "socket ____ is dead," for obvious marketing reasons.

That's my point exactly!
They (Intel) never say "socket ____ is dead,"
That is why I was so curious as someone else said INTEL said that.
I can't see them ever shooting themselves in the foot with a statement like that.

One can "read between the lines' and assume they meant DEAD, but dead is a far way off for the 1155, imho.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

That's my point exactly!
They (Intel) never say "socket ____ is dead,"
That is why I was so curious as someone else said INTEL said that.
I can't see them ever shooting themselves in the foot with a statement like that.

Perhaps I have miscommunicated.

Intel will never explicitly say a socket is dead. This is because they phase chips out very slowly. Cripes, they still make socket 775 parts, but they are slowly phasing them out.

What does happen is that no new chips are released for a given socket. You haven't heard anything about 1156 or 1366 in a while, correct? This halting of new chips is the effective death of a socket. Intel will announce that there is a new processor family coming out, and demonstrate that these processors use a completely new socket.


So in the strictest terms, Intel has not announced that 1155 is "dead." What they have said is that Haswell, the next generation processors, will not use socket 1155. They will never explicitly say that 1155 is dead, but they will do everything short of that to let you know that a new socket is a staple of the next generation.

 

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And with that said, I agree with you 100%.

Perhaps I have miscommunicated.

Intel will never explicitly say a socket is dead. This is because they phase chips out very slowly. Cripes, they still make socket 775 parts, but they are slowly phasing them out.

What does happen is that no new chips are released for a given socket. You haven't heard anything about 1156 or 1366 in a while, correct? This halting of new chips is the effective death of a socket. Intel will announce that there is a new processor family coming out, and demonstrate that these processors use a completely new socket.


So in the strictest terms, Intel has not announced that 1155 is "dead." What they have said is that Haswell, the next generation processors, will not use socket 1155. They will never explicitly say that 1155 is dead, but they will do everything short of that to let you know that a new socket is a staple of the next generation.

And with that said, I agree with you 100%.
I hope I get a good, long run life out of my I-2500K just as I have gotten with all my E8400 and E8500 cpus.

 

[Cotton_Cup]

I'm sure that the i5 2500K will run as good as it gets up until 2014/2015 (well maybe with a gpu upgrade)

you should be able to milk it out some more before replacing it, and if your a gamer, in some weird cases game developers pull out of the behind with something like this

BF BC5 (LOL if this just happens in like 2014or 2015)
CPU: Intel i7 6.5Ghz, 10 Cores
Ram: 55GB Ram 6133Mhz
GPU: 20GB AMD radeon 19970 or 15gb nvidia GTX 5980

lol if that were to happen then people really need system upgrade ^_^ but so far as how things are going right now you can most likely last i5 2500k with some milking up until 2014.