Quote Originally Posted by Warsaw View Post
You missed the point. I'm not talking about performance. I'm talking about longevity. Socket 1156 has always been an evolutionary dead end and doesn't provide any of the benefits that 1366 does apart from supporting Hyperthreading in its CPUs. Socket 1366, however, is going to be gone in a few months as Socket 2011 takes its place.

My point is that he won't be able to upgrade later for a reasonably (well, as reasonable as Intel gets) unless he uses Socket 1155, 2011, maybe 1366, or AM3. I don't know about you, but when I build a PC I make sure that I can upgrade it in the future for as little as possible.
With my experience of upgrading and i and alot of people i know have done it for a long, long time. Is that most upgrades are done in chunks.

For instance i bouht my q6600 so it would last me for a long long time and i'd be able to upgrade ect when i needed to, however when it came down to it, the chipsets had changed and it was useless, by buying mid range or high end shit most people are expecting 2-3 years outta their PC these days, which isn't as big an ask as it used to be. i know i got a hell of alot of miles outta my old 8800GTX. so much that even when i upgraded the main shit (CPU, Ram Mo board) in a single upgrade i kept the 8800 for another year afterwards before moving on.

Things like GPU's and HD's get upgraded sporadically, But as for Motherboard, CPU and ram Dont, they tend to be tied together pretty much.