LGA 1155 or LGA 1366

LGA 1366 is a dead end. LGA 1155 is still current.

^ That. there are a ton more differences, but that's all you need to know.

will there be a new chipset imminent? or should I be content with 1155 for now? I want to 'future proof' my system...whatever is the most modern tech is what I aim to achieve

There will be a new socket with Haswell (LGA 1150) in Q2 2013, but LGA 1155 will be current until then. The point, I guess, is that you can't really "future proof" right now.

1155 is a future proof as you can get right now. Unfortunately, intel is at a point in their development cycle that we will 'probably' see a new socket introduced for the next big cpu rollout - although nothing's been made official to the public about that.

Guess I stand corrected. 1150 will be the new socket for Haswell it seems.

If that's true, how have I been reading about LGA 1150 then? I suppose it's not "publicly" official, but everywhere I read says LGA 1150 for Haswell.

Just read your edit. Alright, that clears it up, I guess, lol.

As I said later in my post. I stand corrected.

Yeah, I posted before I saw the edit, lol.

Oh the fun of rapid fire messaging.

I appreciate the pointers, I just want something that will last me for 5-6 years...would a z77 UDH5 ASUS motherboard paired with i7-3770k do the trick?

oh lol noob error on my part   and awesome...I really hope to squeeze as much out of this first build as possible

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