I might as well just wait for the Ivy Bridge then. I looked up the release date and it's estimated at March 2012, so that's not too far off. I don't do any rendering or graphics design, just gaming, but I would like to have a great gaming rig.
I'm not "swimming in money" so can't afford the top of the line CPU's, but I am saving money right now by living at home, so have some extra cash right now to splurge.
Aye. That's probably what I'm doing as well :)!
New graphics card generation coming out early 2012 as well (at least from AMD, Nvidia is a bit later).
An alternative is waiting even a bit further for Ivy Bridge which is basically Sandy Bridge with improvements and 22 nanometer chip which likely will result in less power consumption (which also means lower temperatures).
Sandy Bridge-E is mostly targeted for higher end CPU intensive applications which doesn't really include gaming. They are quite expensive and the current 6-core ones performs more or less equally vs the 2600k in games, yes you'll get slightly better performance, but for the extra FPS vs the extra price it is simply not worth it unless you swim in money.. They are more aimed towards customers who are heavy into video and 3D rendering and similar CPU heavy tasks. For gaming the GPU is the bottle neck.
We have yet to see how the 4Core SB-E will perform and what price it ends up getting. My guess is that it won't be much of an upgrade from 2600k (for gaming purposes) at all. I'm more interested in how Ivy Bridge will look, even though it's not a major update from Sandy Bridge the new 22nm chip may bring new opportunities for overclocking and such :).
As for RAM, it's so cheap nowadays that I have to agree with you on rather too much than too little. You can run 4x4 on dual channel mobos as well.
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Aye. That's probably what I'm doing as well :)!
New graphics card generation coming out early 2012 as well (at least from AMD, Nvidia is a bit later).
Sandy Bridge-E is mostly targeted for higher end CPU intensive applications which doesn't really include gaming. They are quite expensive and the current 6-core ones performs more or less equally vs the 2600k in games, yes you'll get slightly better performance, but for the extra FPS vs the extra price it is simply not worth it unless you swim in money.. They are more aimed towards customers who are heavy into video and 3D rendering and similar CPU heavy tasks. For gaming the GPU is the bottle neck.
We have yet to see how the 4Core SB-E will perform and what price it ends up getting. My guess is that it won't be much of an upgrade from 2600k (for gaming purposes) at all. I'm more interested in how Ivy Bridge will look, even though it's not a major update from Sandy Bridge the new 22nm chip may bring new opportunities for overclocking and such :).
As for RAM, it's so cheap nowadays that I have to agree with you on rather too much than too little. You can run 4x4 on dual channel mobos as well.