Future proof of LGA 1151

[asian_tempation]

I've been thinking of upgrading from an AM3+ platform to the new LGA 1151 platform, but was wondering about the longevity of the socket. If I were to buy a premium $150 1151 mobo, would I be able to keep it for 5+ years and be able to keep up with the latest and greatest? Or should I just wait about a year for the other "lake" series cpus and sockets to come out?

 

[asian_tempation]

BTW I along with the 1151 mobo I would most likely be getting an I7-6700k

 

[Gam3r01]

You should have no problem going to LGA1151, its the newest socket, and has plenty of life left in it.
In addition, if you move to an i7, you shouldnt need to upgrade it for years, let alone the socket.

 

[smorizio]

intel stopped there tic/toc cycle do to brodwell and skylake almost dropping at the same time. there now doing three chips per platform. the newer kurby lake and the 200 ser motherboard just went retail and should be hitting the channel in a few weeks. there be one more cpu for the 1151 mb then intel may like they have been doing adding or removing one pin so you have to buy a newer mb if you want to keep buying there newer cpu. in real life you dont want to upgrade for at lest 3-4 cpu drops from intel. in real world speed from sandy bridge to skylake the cpu have gotten slightly faster in games and real life programs. the newer kurby lake adds a few more bells and whissles like more pci lanes for video and more usb ports (10). if you buy a good power supply and mb and cpu the cpu and mb should have a 3 year warranty on it...all it cost you is time and some money to rma the part. a lot of newer powrer supplys have 5-10 year warranties on them.

 

[Swordkd]

If you had bought Sandy Bridge when it came out, we still wouldn't be telling you to upgrade yet. The increases in performance just aren't there enough to justify it yet. Better performance is better of course, but it's not better enough to justify dropping money on a brand new Cpu/MB.

What this actually means, is a Skylake i7 and motherboard will still be good performers for years to come, even if they aren't as *fast* as the latest Intel offering. Upgrade and don't worry about it for quite a long while.

 

[asian_tempation]

THANKS! I appreciate all your comments. I'll probably upgrade around the end of summer just in case some new stuff drops and so I can make some money over the break.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Intel typically only uses the same socket for 2 generations. Now that they have abandoned their traditional tick-tock cadence of CPU releases, they may start having 3 gens on 1 socket, but I don't think anybody knows at this point. So no, you will not be able to buy the latest CPU 5 years from now and have it fit in an lga 1151 mobo. At best you could upgrade to Kaby Lake (late this year), or maybe Cannonlake in 2017.

That being said, if you buy a good lga 1151 CPU now, you won't need to upgrade for 5+ years. As far as other mobo features, there'll always be something new around the corner. For example, Intel's next gen mobos have support for upcoming XPoint memory. At some point PCIe 4.0 will be added to mobos. There's always new, higher-bandwidth connectors being released on new mobos, etc, etc. You could spend the rest of your life waiting for the next big thing to come out. But right now lga 1151 is the most future proof you can get.

 

[Randyivy]

Just from building and seeing how long your cpu lasts in terms of need of upgrading. I would say 6 years is upgrade time with new sockets. I5-3570k is still amazing for me. I'm actually buying a used 2500 for a i3-2120 upgrade on my other pc.