How does my gaming pc look?

no. 1366 is dead. 1155 is still pretty new, as they are still releasing for it, and Ivy will tide it over to socket LGA2011 that is slated to take over LGA1366. they are still manufacturing the CPUs already released for 1366, but no more will be released.
 
Yeah I would have come here and asked first, but I was on a very tight time frame. I'm glad to hear my computer is a beast, but I really hope they will make a newer, better LGA 1366 CPU so I don't have to upgrade my motherboard. Are they done with LGA 1366? Or will they make a newer CPU that's compatible to LGA 1366 in the future?
 
Intel does not care much for backwards compatibility. At all, actually. Each new series of CPU's has a new socket.

The G1 Killer board is discontinued, sadly. Intel also does not reduce prices on their old CPU's, they just make new CPU's with better pricing. That's why Core 2 Quads and 1366 and 1156 CPU's are still expensive. They don't discount their old ranges.

Have you got this system already? I'd be doing different things for a $1100 system. First thing would be ordering the parts and building it myself :P
 
Ohh, ok. Well damn it. I think in a year or so I'm going to upgrade my motherboard to LGA 1155, or whatever the newest socket is, and same with my processor. But until then my current set-up will play games fine right? I'm also going to upgrade my power supply when i upgrade my cpu and motherboard to a very reliable 1000w+ power supply. Does that sound like a good idea to you Wolfe? In a year or so?
 
everything except the PSU. I would replace that as soon as possible.
As for the upgrade route, that sounds about right. By that time games will be more demanding and you will probably need a 2500 or FX6100 to play everything maxed, so its a good plan.
 
those are processors. more precisely it would be Core i5-2500k and AMD FX6100 (yet to be released).
the first one is on the 1155 socket and the second is on the AM3+ socket.
 
Ok tyvm Wolfe. Now I know a lot more about my build. I'm still happy with what I purchased because it's going to run WoW, BF3, Modern Warfare 2, and all my other games perfectly, but in a year or so when I've gathered the money I'm going to take your advice and upgrade to the newest socket CPU and Motherboard (I prefer Intel not AMD). As for the PSU, as soon as I have the money I'm going to have to replace that, and replacing the power supply is always so much fun :eek::eek: Thank you so much for your help Wolfe.
 
as far as the cpu, although it is a dead socket, that should still be fast enough to last you several years before you will be able to get a actual performance difference you will notice not the benchmarks only boost.
 
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