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Upgrading from a P4 2.4C

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Crimson Tear

Limp Gawd
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So it's finally time for me to upgrade. Here is my thread in the General Hardware section about my plan.

My question to you is, what processor should I be going for? Xenon 3440, i7 920, or i7 860. I know that the Xenon and 860 are LGA 1156 and the 920 is LGA 1366. What I don't understand are the benefits of each socket or why the i7 core series is split between two sockets.

I'll be using this computer as a movie storage and playback rig, with occasional gaming, encoding, and Photoshopping. I don't really need that much CPU horsepower, but since these three processors are pretty closely priced, I wanted to see what you all have to say about them.
 
Yeah, the socket thing had me a little baffled at first too...

My understanding is that the 860 has the entire northbridge on-die, so it connects directly to the PCIe bus and the southbridge; the 920, on the other hand, still needs an off-die northbridge (sans memory controller), which it connects to via a QPI link. There's also the matter of three memory channels on the 920 vs. two on the 860. Different interfaces, different sockets.

As for which you should get, I have no idea...
 
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