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Originally Posted by blackbalt89 
Or the people who are concerned with 5.5GHz on air with low temps, or native PCI-e 3.0 and USB 3.0 without the use of add-in cards/chips or buying a $300 X79 board to use with their marginally lower priced i7 3820 with locked multi.
77w TDP is just the icing on the cake my friend.
Or the people who are concerned with 5.5GHz on air with low temps, or native PCI-e 3.0 and USB 3.0 without the use of add-in cards/chips or buying a $300 X79 board to use with their marginally lower priced i7 3820 with locked multi.
77w TDP is just the icing on the cake my friend.
overclocking wont change much as the frequency limit is decided by the architecture, yes mayb 10%-15% over sandy bridge but I doubt it.
ivy bridge still has a short pipeline just like sandy bridge so it wont scale to high frequency, it will be able to reach better frequencies up until a certain point before consumption get crazy, not to mention intel limiting the overclock on the cpu like with sandy bridge.
second thing dont expect intel to compete with itself, they are selling their x79 for 1000 dollar and noway in hell they will let you have ivy bridge for 200$ with better performance. only the ivy bridge extreme will achieve what you are talking about.
pci-e 3.0 is pointless at this point, and makes absolutely no difference in performance today, maybe in a few years yes but not today
usb3.0 being native also doesnt make such a huge difference than having an add in usb3.0, or usb3.0 built in with the mobo
in other words, if you have core2 or nehelem then yes ivy bridge is a good upgrade, but if you have sandy bridge its totally not worth it
