Fun Fact: LGA775 Processors Cling to 77 Percent Market Share
Fun Fact: LGA775 Processors Cling to 77 Percent Market Share
Posted 02/05/2010 at 9:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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With all the talk of Core i7, Core i5, Intel's upcoming six-core Gulftown, and a plethora of swank X58- and P55-based mobos bombarding the market place, are you starting to feel left out puttering along on your LGA775 build? Well, you should be -- this is Maximum PC, after all. But outside of our niche of power users, LGA775 still reigns supreme, and by no small margin.
As Fudzilla reports it, LGA775 processors are the current king of the sales hill, accounting for a whopping 77 percent of sales. The dated socket won't be able to hold onto that pace throughout 2010, but by the end of the year, Intel expects LGA775 to still account for half of all processor sales.
So who's buying into socket 1366 and building high-end Core i7 foundations? Not many. Currently the least popular Intel socket of the bunch, higher end Core i7 chips only account for a measly 1 percent of sales.
Socket LGA1156, on the other hand, claims 18 percent of all Intel shipments and its market share is expect to grow to 44 percent by the end of 2010. And of course there's the ever-popular Atom series, which surprisingly only makes up for 5 percent of all Intel CPUs so far in this first quarter.
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Velox
February 08, 2010 at 7:23pm
I have been using a Pentium D 950 3.40 GHz on a non-PCI 2.0 mobo for about 4.5 years. I have just been waiting (impaitently) for i7 mobo's with SATA II and USB 3.0.
vistageek
February 06, 2010 at 6:27pm
My Q6600 @3.2 ghz is still working great. I see no reason to upgrade.
immersive
February 05, 2010 at 10:24pm
My main gaming rig is a 680i with a C2D 6600 @ 3.3 and a GTX 275. I figure this computer is good for another 2+ years before I upgrade. I figure I may be able to skip socket 1366 and 1166. If my computer dies for some reason though, there is no way I would build another computer on a 775 mobo. I would prob step up to an AM3.
wolf17
February 05, 2010 at 8:54pm
I had that happen to me aswell. My P5n-e sli board died on me, and so I decided it was a good time to step up to i7.
"Life is about living, not stressing" - a very smart girl :)
jpmurph1
February 05, 2010 at 5:35pm
Heres a weird one, i have never owned a socket775 in november 2008 right after i7s release i rebuilt all my pcs,(upgraded a better word) so i have 3 desktops running core i7s but before that i had a pentium 4 socket 478, so i guess i dont fit into their figures
BAMT
February 05, 2010 at 1:28pm
Heh, I just upgraded my Intel Extreme board to an NVIdia 790i Ultra so I could use DDR3 2000MHz RAM with my overclocked SLACR. Also, I'm sure there are people who like the cheap $40 dual core Pentiums.
ghen
February 05, 2010 at 12:30pm
Are these intel only numbers? I just bought a Phenom II and a gigabyte AM3 motherboard to match. Intel was slightly more pricey for its performance.
gendoikari1
February 05, 2010 at 6:40pm
I think they are Intel-only.
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Keno5net
February 05, 2010 at 11:35am
It is always nice to upgrade but like David Gerrold indicated in his colum yesterday any upgrade needs to make a real discernalble difference. I am still running an old Q6600 system and I don't feel the newer platforms will give me enough improvement to warrent the price. For most things the 775 platform still preforms well enough at a much better price point and it has the advantage of being a mature platform meaning less problems and incompatabilities.
I am not supprised at all that it is still the leading seller.
aviaggio
February 05, 2010 at 9:26am
I dunno, it may be very un-Maximum PC of me, but my E8400 does everything I need to do and is going on two years. Moving up requires replacing all the internals -- motherboard, RAM, and CPU, which is a really expensive propostion. It's just not worth it to me right now. I suspect many others feel the same. You get to a point where what you have is simply fast enough.
Now if I were a hardcore gamer the story would probably be different, but I'm not.
TvMan
February 05, 2010 at 12:31pm
I feel the same way with my E8400. Is still fast enough to keep pace with most of my games and everyday tasks, and if it wasn't for dead mobo last week helping to fuel my un-neccesary want for an i7 i wouldn't be upgrading either.
arkarkwin
February 05, 2010 at 9:26am
God! if you are out there, please, save AMD so we can still buy latest intel chip with less than $300.
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