We know. That's why you are now going through your second GPU in a relatively short time frame, right?
As for me, I'm thinking of just going Z68 now, and here's why:
By the time performance requirements for software has made any Sandy-Bridge /SNB-E CPUs as obsolete as my Athlon 64 3200+, we will have progressed at least TWO enthusiast generations from now (X99?). Combine that with the fact that SNB-E is not appreciably better than SNB unless you do extreme productivity, the high cost of motherboards, and the fact that SNB already has 8 logical cores, and there is nothing for it. I can wait two weeks for C2 stepping, but X79 is just as dead as Z68. Or, I can buy now and be just as well off. I sincerely doubt IVB will be much better than SNB, and it for sure will have a greater impact on the mobile landscape than on the desktop.
I would like to have the ability to just throw 4 more DIMMs into my computer to increase RAM and I would like the full x16 width PCI-E lanes, but with Intel giving us the stick, there's nothing for it. They are hell-bent on two-year platform refreshes, now demolishing any hope you have at investing in an enthusiast platform. I doubt we'll ever see another LGA 775 or X58.
Then there's price, but price isn't really in play here.
Thoughts?
E: The PCI-E 2.0 8x nature of multi-card configs on Z68 is also a known bottleneck to high end video cards. Rectified by dropping an IVB CPU into the slot to enable PCI-E 3.0, but that's a stupid upgrade if you already have SNB. X79 is PCI-E 3.0 capable out of the gate.
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