Dillemma

[LastShark]

Hi there everyone. Just joined your site today. Been reading this site for sometime.
I have a bit of a dilemma. I would like to build myself a new Desktop PC.
I can't decide if I should go for the LGA1155 or LGA1366 motherboard.
Can anyone enlighten me on it?
If I go for the LGA1155 then I would probably go for the 2600k Sandy Bridge CPU.
Otherwise the i7-970 if I were to go for the LGA1366.
But I don't know which to choose. I use processing power, i.e. applications not games.
Anyone with advice?

[DragonFury]

first and foremost what are your plans with the pc? gaming only with other light editing and other things, or is it going to be used as a heavy video editing/audio editing? if gaming only then the 1155 be the best choice, because all current CPU's (1155/1156/1366, quad to hex cores all give roughly the same amount of performance, verified that by myself) if you doing video/audio editing then a 1366 core i7 970 be the best choice the shear count of threads will make short work of it. I am currently running a Core i7 970 and i do lot of image converting, video editing, and such.

[LastShark]

Thanks for replying DragonFury.
I am a Software Developer, so I normally have many apps open at the same time.
So which would be ideal for me. I dont do any gaming at all.

[DragonFury]

970, if you doing a lot of different things. but it does come at a hefty price tag. if you have the money go all out