Waiting for *at least* IB/Piledriver, worth waiting for Haswell?

[Ajay]

serioulsy other than cine bench numbers no one on this forum needs 12 threads and if you do you are already running a xeon setup,admit it you are only using it for braging rights lol

Except those of us who run F@H or other highly threaded DC apps.

 

[Ajay]

As to the OP, wait till you need more compute power or features, if a new Processor/Chipset is imminent, wait a little longer, otherwise buy what you need. It does s*ck when you buy a new system and an a significant upgrade is out three months later - a mistake most of us only make once.

 

[Grooveriding]

serioulsy other than cine bench numbers no one on this forum needs 12 threads and if you do you are already running a xeon setup,admit it you are only using it for braging rights lol

I encode blu rays to x264 rips once in a while, not often. I use Winrar a whole lot, but that already felt fast enough on my i7 920 @ 4.2.

I would of been fine with 4/8, but what got me to buy 2011 is I wanted the X79 platform, not the cores. The cores just came along with it. Wasn't interested in waiting for the 4 core SB-E next year.

There are a lot of different reasons someone would wind up with a 2011 beyond being a heavy encoder.

 

[Obsoleet]

Yeah, I don't need it. This rig with formatting my SSD would probably perform even better than it does now (2 years+ without a format). We'll build a Haswell rig when that comes here, if my current one doesn't die before then in a major way.

 

[Hypertag]

It cost me less to get this 980X + x58 mobo than it would have to buy a good (i.e. equivalent in quality as my p6x58d-e) P67/Z68 mobo + 2500K.

It really was the deal of a lifetime on both the CPU and mobo fronts. Also, I've never understood how anyone could take Z68/p67 over x58. The LGA 1155 platform will never have more than 4 cores!

Well you cracked the puzzle there. You are literally the only person on the planet to figure out that LGA1155 is worthless, and glorious LGA1366 is superior because it has "cheap" six core processors ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115066 ). I guess Intel's only option now that you have solved the Gordian Knot is to recall all LGA1155 processors and motherboards and replace them with LGA 1366 processors and motherboards.