My son is building his first Gaming computer.

He bought an ASUS P9X79 WS which is a LGA 2011 but, his I7 Processor is a 4770K LGA1150

He has a GTX 780 ACX he's gonna run.

Should we sell/replace the Processor or the Board?

Im having trouble finding a reason strong enough to go either way.

Which is newer - going to be viable longer ect.

Thank you for your help & expertise.

That motherboard is a bit overkill unless he's planning on using multiple GPUs. The hook for that board seems to be the fact that you can use 4 way SLI which is insane. If he's not planning on spending crazy amounts on graphics cards I would return the MOBO. One of these would be more than enough for him.

LGA 1150 and 2011 are basically at the same stage in their life cycles so it's a trade off between either one, although there seems to be more modern boards available for 1150.

If you really want to future proof the computer you should get a 2011-v3 processor and board. But then you'll be spending quite a premium cause it's brand new tech and it only takes DDR4 memory which is also really expensive right now due to low availability/novelty of the tech.

I would lean towards a new mobo, since I'm taking a guess and assuming that's a pretty decent processor (I have the 3770K).

But really whatever is more cost effective so long as you can get a decent processor for 2011. Last I checked 1150 Mobo's were more cost effective.

4770k is way more than enough, just use that.

New MOBO.

Keep the i7, sell the mobo. Mobo will be cheaper to replace and the i7 is very good.

Yeah, unless you somehow need more than 32gb ram or two video cards in SLI mode 2011 is overkill. 1150 motherboards are generally cheaper too.

2011 is also triple channel memory so it works with different configurations than 1150. (3x identical chips pr set for 2011, 2x for 1150)

If you want to spend more for the latest tech change the cpu, if you want the cheaper older tech change the motherboard.

Yes return that $300+ mobo.

2011 is an enthusiast platform.

Don't buy it, unless you know exactly why you are buying it, because you most likely have no use for it.

quad channel actually, which would translate over to dual channel pretty well.

That motherboard costs 335 bucks on Newegg. Tell your son not to be a wasteful idiot. Tell him to look up logicalincrements.com and PCpartpicker.com, because he obviously isn't up to the task himself.