Quote Originally Posted by RouTaran View Post
What socket should i be looking at then? which is going to be around for a while and give me more options on CPU upgrades.

My last system, i went for the top of the line Socket 478s instead of the 775.
Turned out that the P4 3.0GHz processor i had was the best at the time and intel was moving on to the socket 775 so i was left with no scope for improvement as new technology came out. I dont want to make the same mistake again.

If the socket 1156 is not the way to go, what is?
Bad news on this front. Take a look an the Intel Roadmap and its hard to figure out your question. Its not as easy as it use to be to figure out where Intel is going. Each socket has at least one more CPU upgrade coming in 2010. The i7 1366 is the high-end stuff, the i5/7 1156 is the midrange and low-end stuff. Its been my experience that Intel will force you into a new socket every 2 or 3 generations anyway If I had to guess, the 1156 socket will have two new gen CPUs; the 1366 one more. If you're an OCer, go 1366.