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Originally Posted by Tesla1856
Around Nov 2013, will I be able to get an 6-core Intel (non-extreme) "K processor" on some chipset other than x79 ... that is PCIe 3.0 certified?
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yes (assuming IVB-E is out by then . . . which it is supposed to be . . .)
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Originally Posted by Tesla1856
Will i7-3930K and i7-3970K only ever run on x79?
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no, they should run on the new chipset . . . but they will still only be validated for PCIe v2.0
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Originally Posted by Tesla1856
The Xeon workstation build is a nice pipe-dream but in reality, I need to keep it more "mainstream desktop"
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You should probably forget about 6 cores.
A 4-core Haswell will beat a 6-core SB in most everything and never be far behind in anything
