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haswell, IvyBridge-E or Sandybridge-E?

I'm looking for a new gaming PC. I will be using my ATI 7970. When haswell comes out this month should i go for that or the older 39xx Z79?

For Gaming, Haswell...

You know that the 39**'s will still be £450+ right,

Where as haswell will sit around the price of Ivybirdge £180 for the i5 and £250 for the i7..
 
X79 is not the fastest platform for gaming but it will outlive Haswell.

The thing X79 has going for it is brute power, up to 6 CPU cores, four graphics cards, quad channel memory and an upgrade path to IB-E.

If you want a rig just for gaming for a couple of years Haswell is the better choice, if you want a rig that is still viable in 4 or 5 years time X79 is the way to go. It's a bit like you still see a lot of X58 i7 920s still going strong, they were the X79 equivalent of their day.
 
I still don't like the idea of silicon space wasted on a sub standard GPU part I will never use. Its always going to be an E CPU for me and I'm looking forward to seeing what Intel will do with Ivybridge-E or perhaps the rumours are true and they are going straight to Haswell-E.
 
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