is the LGA 2011 new or old?

[Shaun98]

is the LGA 2011 socket new or old thinking of upgrading

 

[Gam3r01]

LGA 2011 is from 2011, so its an older socket.
However, LGA 2011 V3 is intels newest socket at the moment.

 

[beoza]

Socket 2011 has been around since Sandy Bridge E, the newer socket is 2011 v3. This might help a bit with compatibility questions http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-034539.htm It's worth upgrading if you need the extra PCI-E lanes and DDR4.

 

[SpaceLama]

yeah beoza is right. . also I am not sure when Skylake comes out but I think They are 1151 sockets also. But I heard they are not worth upgrading from looking at a couple of threads because they are basicllay quad cores. If you are enthusiast and want the new i7 chips of the 2011 v3 I would recommend the 5930k if you need more than 2 way sli. If not than you can go to 5920K. I don't think its worth going 8 cores 5960x unless you have the money to throw around like that. The market will probably be good for that processor in a year as its 1000 USD right now.
If you are on a budget just get a 4790K , If you want SLI more than 3 way you can get a high high end motherboard instead that provides PLX chip for extra PCI lanes from the GPU to the Chip , which than gives 16 PCI lanes to the CPU. Its what I am doing right now myself but I am having a hardtime picking one as the x99 motherboards basically have the good extra features like M.2 drives plus Sata express. And I am not sure if I should trust Asrock because I have no experience with any of Asrock products but I have been hearing that they are good, at least particularly the Z9 asrock extreme 9

 

[Shaun98]

so is it worth getting the i7-5960X with the 2011 socket or stick with a 1150 or wait untill the 1151 is out

 

[Gam3r01]

Unless you are doing some heavy rendering or the works, a simple i5 will do just fine.

 

[SpaceLama]

If you doing a build from the ground up and have the money for it sure. You will be future proof outside of gaming but its really for people who do stuff like render videos ect. You will also be future proof what ever games start really needing more than 4 cores for significant performance difference but I think that will be a long time. I am not expert though just average joe.