It sort of leaves you in a bit of a pickle, some would like to upgrade now, but with Haswell round the corner, they are putting it off.
I am guessing we won't be seeing any 6 core Haswell, nor will we be seeing enthusiast motherboards such a Asus Maximus Gene's or the like straight away?
So some may well be waiting months for a CPU with roughly 10% improvement that may not be utilized in comparison to current top end offerings, then for another few months as motherboard manufacturers sell, iron out bugs, update bios, and get more competitive upon benchmarks being set by their motherboards?
Any idea of pricing, what the top Haswell CPU's will be and cost?
New games may utilize more cores, possible late news for Haswell if there are only 4 cores, but making Socket 2011 still viable, but wait, that is also being updated,next year!
I have been putting off a microATX Z77 build for months due to news of Haswell, but still know very little of what to expect, and how long it will be before we have recommended CPU's and motherboards within the forums and magazines to compare to the likes of the Maximus Gene V with a i7-3770K/i5-3570K.
Can't work out if it is worth the wait, or if I should spend money on a budget/i5 or Gene/i7 combo.