Future dominant socket 1366, 1156 or ...

This question will interest many gamers who plan to invest a lot in an high end motherboard.
Considering future upgradability, and taking in account that future mainstream motherboards will be based on the socket 1366 (currently includes the "i7 920" and the coming "i9 gulftown" ) or socket 1156 (includes the "i7 860" and the i5), which socket will be the dominant?
Can anyone throw some light on this issue? Where Intel is heading?

the new intel socket is already pending.

I hadn't heard a thing about a new socket....

1366 for the high-end, 1156 for everyone else. If you look at Intel's history, usually the current motherboard (not socket), would be incompatible 1 or 2 years from now.

Example:
Socket 478, when the P4 with HT was released, you'd need a Canterwood/875 chipset to use it.

Socket 775, you couldn't use the Quad's on the 945 chipsets even though they were also 775.


So really, I wouldn't be worried, probably after i9 on the 1366, the next processor would probably be 'electrically' incompatible with the 1366 boards of today.

well back. well first thing is that i though it was an lga 1566, well it's lga 1567. 2nd is that this will be a sever socket. although most of the web site i looked at i never heard of before so they could be wrong or right.