Long time coming... PC buildin' time!

[slh28]

Sounds nuts! Thinking I should hold off for a month or so then?

It's definitely not going to be a month or so. With the lack of competition from AMD there's pretty much no incentive from Intel to release IB-E any time soon especially as SB-E hasn't been out for that long and there isn't really the appetite for such high end consumer CPUs.

There's 8 core/16 thread SB-E processors out already under the Xeon name, although they have quite low clock speeds and a very high price tag.

 

[dividebyzero]

I believe slh28 is correct
Ivy Bridge-E won't debut until Q3 of next year. About six months after Haswell.


EDIT: Ninja'ed by slh28. I'd add that Sandy Bridge Xeon and SNB-E Xeon are multiplier locked for the most part ( BCLK overclocking only).

 

[LinkedKube]

Bahh.

 

[Jad Chaar]

It's definitely not going to be a month or so. With the lack of competition from AMD there's pretty much no incentive from Intel to release IB-E any time soon especially as SB-E hasn't been out for that long and there isn't really the appetite for such high end consumer CPUs.

There's 8 core/16 thread SB-E processors out already under the Xeon name, although they have quite low clock speeds and a very high price tag.

you should get a XEON PC if you are gonna have such a high pc budget