2011 vs 1155 socket help

[slogue77]

Hi , is it worth getting 2011 socket board over a 1155 ... when is Asus going bring a 2011 ROG socket & CPU for the Ivory bridge...

I have everything i need to build my new gaming comp excepted to motherboard and CPU ... should i wait for a 2011 or just buy a 1155 ?

[lenehan]

Socket 2011 will have Ivy Bridge-E coming in Q4. I read from an article.

[HiVizMan]

The two sockets are two distinctly different product ranges as you know. The LGA 2011 is the enthusiast line and the LGA 1155 is the mainstream product.

So I might have misunderstood what you were asking OP. There are already top end ROG products for the IvyBridge processors they are the Maximus V boards. The IV was for SandyBridge and the V is for IvyBridge. Hope that helps. If I have not understood my bad and please point me to what it is you are wanting to know.

[slogue77]

HiVizMan wrote:
The two sockets are two distinctly different product ranges as you know. The LGA 2011 is the enthusiast line and the LGA 1155 is the mainstream product.

So I might have misunderstood what you were asking OP. There are already top end ROG products for the IvyBridge processors they are the Maximus V boards. The IV was for SandyBridge and the V is for IvyBridge. Hope that helps. If I have not understood my bad and please point me to what it is you are wanting to know.

Cool, that does help... Being the LGA 2011 a enthusiast board what makes it better then a Maximus V Extreme , i thought you could not get more enthusiast then that for a motherboard , thats sexy as ...

so the only difference is the speed of the socket between them ... would you really notice the difference ?

[HiVizMan]

Ah I now understand, and you are not alone in being a little confused. Intel do themselves no favours with their socket design practices.

Here goes. Intel do something called Tic Toc design. They have two different design, R&D teams. One team works on enthusiast and the other on mainstream. They have very different target markets, and therefore the product (CPU's) are very different too. So LGA 2011 does not have an IGP option, as that is not an enthusisast feature. Yet IvyBridge (LGA 1155) does as it is mainstream. Now the enthusiast products tend to have more cores when compared to the mainstream. So far so good. Here comes the bit that is confusing to many.

Intel did a fantastic job of producing a mainstream processor that basically outperforms the enthusiast product. Yip that started before SandyBridge actually but certainly SB was a key moment. Now IvyBridge has the carried on that tradition.

So no, LGA2011 is not really quicker, it is just different. Quicker (frequency) of the core is not really that important as a comparative with CPU's if you think about stuff. But we still use that marker because we are used to it.

If you are a gamer then Ivy is the way to go. Most of the time a gamer is not going to use 4 VGA's, Ivy allows 3. Most of the time a gamer is not going to need 128GB or ram, Ivy lets you use 32GB.

Me I would go Ivy time and time again. The Maximus V series of motherboard have all the tweaking features of the RIVE board and a couple that are unique too. The MVE, MVG and MVF boards are the pinnacle of ASUS R&D as it stands.

Hope this helps

[slogue77]

HiVizMan wrote:
Ah I now understand, and you are not alone in being a little confused. Intel do themselves no favours with their socket design practices.

Here goes. Intel do something called Tic Toc design. They have two different design, R&D teams. One team works on enthusiast and the other on mainstream. They have very different target markets, and therefore the product (CPU's) are very different too. So LGA 2011 does not have an IGP option, as that is not an enthusisast feature. Yet IvyBridge (LGA 1155) does as it is mainstream. Now the enthusiast products tend to have more cores when compared to the mainstream. So far so good. Here comes the bit that is confusing to many.

Intel did a fantastic job of producing a mainstream processor that basically outperforms the enthusiast product. Yip that started before SandyBridge actually but certainly SB was a key moment. Now IvyBridge has the carried on that tradition.

So no, LGA2011 is not really quicker, it is just different. Quicker (frequency) of the core is not really that important as a comparative with CPU's if you think about stuff. But we still use that marker because we are used to it.

If you are a gamer then Ivy is the way to go. Most of the time a gamer is not going to use 4 VGA's, Ivy allows 3. Most of the time a gamer is not going to need 128GB or ram, Ivy lets you use 32GB.

Me I would go Ivy time and time again. The Maximus V series of motherboard have all the tweaking features of the RIVE board and a couple that are unique too. The MVE, MVG and MVF boards are the pinnacle of ASUS R&D as it stands.

Hope this helps

Yeah cheers mate , thx for the lesson ... 🙂