They can change as many socket as they want, but I am gonna use my PC for at least 5 years.

If u are not into imaging/gaming/development. I cannot see a reason to upgrade PC. Even if u still need some gaming to burn some of ur time, u can go back to the classic arcade, they are just as good in game play.

Infact the only good new thing fancy me is the low power Fanless PC. Atom isnt that "fast enough" for everyday general use yet. I am still waiting for it to get faster.

i7 950 is still far from i7 980x and the latest leaked 995x

later when LGA2011 come out and become mainstream, hopefully the 1366 proc will be cheaper

the way i see it, the normal user, its better to skip a gen
I totally skipped Core 2 series and now aiming for the Core i7

Well, I say u hold onto ur CPU unless u feel that ur Phenom II X4 are fully max out that you couldnt bare any slow/lag anymore. You might not even know what AMD gonna plan for AM3+, until AMD decide to phase out socket AM3+ for good, stay what u have if u didnt max it out yet.

doesnt mean they gonna stop producing desktop CPU. They mean they are not gonna hit high end market like Intel

I was talking about someone who want to dump an expensive AM3+ motherboard for 1155, you are the one who quoted me, have u read all my post lol.

It doesn't need that many. In fact it is less efficient to have too many and number of VRMs in use will still be in the increasing order instead of using all VRMs at the same time with lower load. To some, it is nothing more than a marketing tool similar to more cores = more performance.
Your GTX460 will still consume a bit of power at idle to keep it running unlike AMD's ZeroCore, depending on the power gating feature that was implemented for that particular generation. The only benefit you'll gain is that your GTX460 will ramp up less, it will not have a usage spike which reduces power consumption but too little to even bother, most of the workload you've placed during the test is not GPU intensive in any way. You'll have to remove the GTX460 physically to actually see some actual difference in power usage.

to be honest having a separate rig like E-350 probably better than using same one if u are really pushing for power saving.

I have my 2500K + GTX570 as gaming rig while my E-350 do all the downloading stuff. E-350 platform can hit as low as 20w for the entire system.

It did work as stated as your discrete GPU will not have any spikes in usage because most of the work is done by the IGP. IF difference is small then it is within the margin of error. You can't expect miracles because the GTX460 needs power to idle as well.

If you have the money, it would be a lot better to build a separate downloading rig as stated by Boldnut. You'll save more power that way and your maintenance interval for your main rig is reduced because you no longer need to keep it up 24/7. Your main rig would definitely have a lot of fans which leads to more dust. A separate E-350 rig can run almost passively.

Lucid Virtu is not something that completely turns off the discrete GPU, it doesn't work like that. Lets just say that the discrete GPU needs about 10W to idle. Even if you switched to the IGP, the discrete GPU will still need about 10W to idle. That is why you don't see the difference till you remove the discrete GPU physically, since there is no discrete GPU to power it at idle, you get less power consumption. That is Fermi's power gating method or almost any GPU till this point will never have 0W power consumption at idle because it doesn't turn off like a light bulb.

You'll only see the power savings when you apply some GPU intensive load to the IGP. Most browsers these days got GPU acceleration and when you compare a IGP vs discrete GPU at certain load necessary to do that GPU intensive task, the IGP will sip less power. You don't measure the power savings of the IGP by comparing IGP versus discrete GPU at idle because both will be the same as mentioned in my first paragraph. You have to test it with some load.

Wait for Euro bankrupt then USD will drop again

Of course praying for that is pathetic

100-1000

4usb 3.0 and 8 usb 2.0 if in io is what i want.. Not the mid-board things

I have already mention that in io i want to have minimum 4usb 3.0 and 4usb 2.0 which the sabertooth has...
What other option is possible..
I want it to be on the back cuz standard sure got alot of of usb on board...
Get it??

Guys,

Performance wise,What the different between i7 2600k and i7 3770k??

Because i saw my friend rig's was using i7 3770k render a 3D to image in Sketchup Twilight had 5x progressive render in 5 minutes.

As for me (i7 2600k) was only capable of doing 2x - 3x time progressive render in 5 minutes.

Both had 16GB G.Skill ram different only the mobo which is Z68 V-Pro and Z77 V-Pro and He was using SSD and i m NOT... izzit that Virtu Luciq is messes up ??

So anyone can give a clue?

Do note that twilight is a 32-bit system so basically it just use 4gb ram + only and both rig was OC to 4.2ghz

Never think of that b4. But i do think what if something goes wrong to the built-in wifi. The last thing i would want is rma mobo just because wifi gone wrong..

What's the point im buying built-in wifi mobo if i just replace it when the wifi rosak?

any cheap z77 board support cf and sli ?