Core i7 X58 or a Core i7 P55?

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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.



Try the DP55WG. It also supports both SLI and Crossfire. It can't overclock as much as the DP55KG or DP55SB but its not bad.