Falcon said:
beware the intel newness… my cpu was newness when i got it as well as the socket it set on (LGA775 was new back then) and it wasn’t worth the newness… /me wishes he went AMD and AGP
AMD changes sockets almost every year now and (typically) each generation is non-backwards compatible. At least with Intel you know that 4 year old P4 processor is still going to work in a 680i board.