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Originally Posted by Dylanren99 
It's took several days and nights of reading, but I've got from post #1 to #2439.I am sooooo jealous of your build, and thought my planed build was overkill.
Anyway just a question, why did you not go with ivy bridge.
Good luck with finishing this build and I am more than defiantly subed to this wonderful build log
It's took several days and nights of reading, but I've got from post #1 to #2439.I am sooooo jealous of your build, and thought my planed build was overkill.
Anyway just a question, why did you not go with ivy bridge.
Good luck with finishing this build and I am more than defiantly subed to this wonderful build log
thanks Dylanren99! I feel kinda bad for people finding the build log recently...because it takes a lot of time to get caught up with it. Guess that's what happens when you take 6 months to finish.
As far "why not Ivy Bridge", when I was making my decision...it was either Ivy or Sandy-E. Sandy-E was just the bigger and badder processor. More cores, more PCI lanes, quad channel memory, more L3 cache, etc.
But the real reason to choose Sandy-E at the time, was I thought it was pretty clear that the LGA2011 socket was going to have more upgrade paths in the future. So...when Ivy-E is readily available (sometime Q3 2013 I believe is the target date)...I could choose to put one of those in my LGA2011 board. I don't think there will be any significant or appealing upgrade paths for an 1155 board.
Rock on brother! Rock on! 
Also want to congratulate you and JennG on the engagement. 
I've been married to the wifey 23 years now and I am loving it. 
but your attention to detail and almost fanaticism with this color scheme are inspiring. Even for those of us on a much (much much) smaller budget. Keep it up. 
