I was right away going to buy i5 - 2500k and I noticed that LGA 1155 motherboards aren't available. I do know there is some technical problem but when are they coming back? and what is the problem/error?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379241,00.asp
Should answer your questions.
Intel are shipping Sandy Bridge again about now, but it'll be a few weeks before major stores get stock of the motherboards with the fault-free chipset
A local computer guy told me that he has got a 1155 mobo, should I buy from him?Heard every thing from mid March to mid April. Probably around the same time Bulldozer hits the market.
I have a PATA dvd drive, I am not really sure what is SATA II and III, I think he has the older version of the mobo, so should I buy. He also has i5 760, but the difference in the price of 2500k and 760 isn't much but there is a large diff in performance.^ Ask him if it's the new version, or the old version with the bug in the SATA ports. Or, just ask him when he got it in stock...the fixed versions have only just started shipping, so if it's more than a few weeks it's the old one.
If it is the old one, the only problem s that the SATA II ports can burn out. If you just use the SATA III ports, you won't have any problems. That's feasible for the standard 1HDD/1DVD setup...more if it's one of those boards with extra (more than 2) SATA III ports. You should also be able to get it fix by the manufacturer for free. So really it's not that big of a deal.