I honestly think if this is just for gaming, you're wasting your money.
I can't find a single scenario where you would want an X79 rig for gaming to be honest.
Single moitor setup at 1080p - you will hit 60 fps maximum with AMD FX/1155 CPUs easily
Single monitor setup at 2560 - GPU becomes the bottleneck before CPU
Multimonitor setup - GPU is bottleneck
3D gaming - GPU
Only instance where x79 platform makes sense for gaming is if you are doing 3way SLI/Crossfire and have 3 monitors that are 120 hz and you want 3 X 120 frames per second.
For rendering and other CPU intensive stuff its a different story...but for gaming you can save major coin by getting the AMD AM3+ platform or 1155.I'd recommend AMD to be honest due to dollar/performance ratio... Benchmarks show that newer games like Crysis 3 and Metro run as good if not better on AMD's 8 core processors and with consoles going that route, the optimizaton for AMD will only improve.
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