Both platforms are the current most up to date setups that Intel offers. Both are future-proofed and will be upgradeable. Both have new CPUs coming out for them in the future, and a new platform will not be here anytime soon, likely until late 2012 when Intel comes out with their 22nm CPUs, and even then they may still use the same sockets.
But they're for different markets. 1156 is the cheaper mainstream variant, 1366 is the more expensive performance variant.
liquidsnake718 :
Well referring to quality, GAMERS, and avid builders dont seem to buy Intel motherboards as much as lets say XFX, ASUS or MSI mb's but Intel has great quality and a solid company, decent support to back it up as well as the name to go with the processors. So do you...
yeah micro center like to keep good deals hidden at times. Best way to see what micro center truly has (from what i learn) is in google. type in search bar
Micro center: (cpu here)
For (cpu here) type in what you want like core i7 920, 860, ect.
great you P55 fans now have the option for a h55 and h57 ready motherboard for BD and Hd content onboard....yay..... the X58 should come out with an H58 or something soon then............... gain with usb 3.0..... hehe