For a new rig, LGA775 is a NO. Period.
My usual job to play the devil:
What if someone wants a cheap
Intel Rig. We forgot that the i5 motherboards are still expensive, and the i5 processor is still in the >10K range.
LGA775 still offers a whole plethora of cheap motherboards and cheap Pentium D and C2Ds...................!
Let us not KILL this platform so easily, hell --- Intel has not. i5 and P55 is not the answer to a mid/low budget Intel platform, no ways it is.
For this post we recommended i5 and greater than this, cause Arnab's budget was such. Let us not 'shove' new/expensive technology down information seekers throat.
PERIOD.