[Buchon]

I guess you are talking about the incoming Intel´s CPU that uses the new "Ivy Bridge".

They will be fabricated in 28nm, that mean more speed and the design improvements is rumored a up to 10% in speed, so guess that around 20% up in performance against a 2600K.

But the 2011 socket is build for professional applications that can take the advantage of tree-channel memory bus up to 16 GB (for example) and use Hyper-threading.

In games in general, and in IL2COD, the tree channel-memory have no difference against two-channel systems and Intel hyper-threading is rarely used (in some cases even had problems).

So, for example, you can save a few bucks dropping the tree channel-memory and Intel hyper-threading and going for a 2500k and a 1155 board, and have the same performance in games of a 2600k and a 1366 board.

So the bang for the buck choice is the 1155 socket.

There will be new Ivy Bridge CPU´s in February-march that will use the 1155 socket, and new motherboards, just now the current 1155 boards supports Ivy Bridge CPUs.

After the fiasco of Bulldozer I´m puzzled in get a 2500k now and overclock it to 4.800Mhz or wait for Ivy Bridge and get something able to do over 5.000Mhz 24/7 on air without problems.

But those six cores CPU´s are so sweet, so I guess that I´ll wait a bit more.