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Yes, buying cutting edge technology always hurts, but I never regretted it when I bought my Q6600 8 years ago for a hefty cost and paid £250 for 4GB of DDR2 ram!

I never regretted getting my U320 SCSI and 15K Seagate drives either at a whopping @ £800, but they have served me well for 12 years as I had them in my old P4 days, which is why it is time for me to replace my system for new and shinny.

At the end of the day, you have to weigh up what you want to spend and when you want to spend it, there is always something better round the corner, but as I last upgraded my £2000 rig 8 years ago that's the equivalent of £250 a year, peanuts really.

I did look at details on Broadwell but have seen posts stating it will be sticking to DDR3, not sure how true this is and I'm buying a platform that will allow me to upgrade to 8 cores should I wish when it is more affordable.

Unless something dies in my new build, I won't be replacing it for another 8 years 'hopefully', so I tend to get my moneys worth even if I splash out at the initial outset.

What ever you decide to get I hope you enjoy it and it serves you well, happiness is a state of mind not a price tag!
 
Man yeah, I remember when DDR2 prices were stupid steep.

Broadwell may not be an enterprise platform. Intel always skip a couple of generations of CPUs and I can't see them replacing the 5960x that quickly because it would mean 10 or 12 cores and Intel are too precious of their cores.

Either way it'll most certainly mean a new socket and another new board...
 
Man yeah, I remember when DDR2 prices were stupid steep.
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You're not wrong! Plus I paid for those special German Cellshock chips at the time which were all the rage.

Till I peed the missus off and she threw a cuppa over my box and blew my GT9800 & Cellshock Ram so had to replace them with a GTX260 & OCZ PC9200 - but I made her pay for them so it was like a free upgrade :)
 
Thing is I have a server with dual Intel Xeon E5-2420's for any CPU based tasks and visualisation. My Mac does my video editing so my PC is mainly used for games hence I'm fairly convinced I've made the right decision.
 
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definitely if it's just a games console, you probably have.

Mines my complete work horse, music creation, gaming, multi VM, audio processing, large file copying, anything and everything.

I do currently have an old ML350 G3 Xeon server I am running Linux Mint on while I rewrite my website from the ground up - damn noisy beast, but I got it free from work when they replaced the system, and I felt like having a play with it rather than taking it down the dump.

Have to turn it off when playing games as it drowns out the screams of all the people I assassinate ;)
 
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