Exist is crafting himself a new computer

Impulse

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Nov 1, 2009
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Random story: When i bought my i7 it was an 1366 LGA, but when i asked the technition to recommend a motherboard he gave me one that was an 1156 LGA. I was not happy when i took it home to build and realised the chip was larger than the CPU slot.

Impulse is right though about the 1366 jump.

which also brings me to the problem that you currently chose a 1156 socket CPU and a 1366 mobo on your first post, these are incompatible and you will need a new mobo, a standard P55 is always a good choice since your i5 doesn't have Intel discreet graphics on-board, and any i5 with discreet graphics suffers from its gimped memory controller.