[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen
<k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
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> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM, rosea grammostola
>> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen
>>> <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
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>>>> Probably a good choice. Intel processors are able to handle more heat
>>>> than
>>>> the ones from AMD.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info, great!
>>> How hard is it to  upgrade a processor later? I'm thinking of buying a i3
>>> now, but like to be able to upgrade to a i7 later.
>>>
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>> NO!!!!!! i3, i5 and i7 all have different pinouts. They are not
>> hardware compatible. What you build now is what you get. The most
>> you'll likely do over time is buy some more advanced i3. You'll likely
>> NEVER run an i7 in that machine, short of buying a new motherboard and
>> starting over.
>>
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> I'm pretty sure that's wrong. There are i3, i5 and i7 processors
> available for the LGA1156 socket. Most i7 processors are made
> for the LGA1366 socket though, but at least one is made for the
> LGA1156 socket. I also think all i3 and i5 processors are made
> for the LGA1156 socket.

Well, the devil is _always_ in the details and since the details come
from the MB manufacturer that's where folks have to look.

For my Rampage II Extreme it only lists the i7 as compatible. (Core i7
(LGA1366))

The DH55HC does list all three of the current Intel core designs as
compatible, but it's a different i7

(Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium (LGA1156))

so I stand corrected on that.

Of course, it's not only what the MB is designed for today, but it's
also what's available at the time you want to do the upgrade. There
might be _one_ i7-LGA1156 chip out there today, but will it be
available 18 months from when when the OP wants to do the upgrade?
I've built systems in the past where I thought I could do that only to
have Intel or AMD stop selling the upgraded chip (Core i7-LGA1156 in
this case) long before I decided to do it. I even looked around at
some sites that sell stuff that's no longer in production - they buy
the final production lots and sell to folks like us - but they wanted
so much money for the new processor that it made no sense to me to go
that way.

A good plan in the beginning but not executable when I wanted to do it later.

Cheers,
Mark