Intel Enthusiasts Chipset Roadmap 2013

[tynopik]

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?

yes (assuming IVB-E is out by then . . . which it is supposed to be . . .)

Will i7-3930K and i7-3970K only ever run on x79?

no, they should run on the new chipset . . . but they will still only be validated for PCIe v2.0

The Xeon workstation build is a nice pipe-dream but in reality, I need to keep it more "mainstream desktop"

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

 

[ShintaiDK]

Let me ask it this way ...

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?

Will i7-3930K and i7-3970K only ever run on x79?

Sofar x79 is the only "desktop" chipset for LGA2011. Also the PCIe 3.0 issue aint related to x79. Its related to the CPU. The SB-E Xeons that was launched later supports it.