Yeap, great stuff. I'd probably not notice much had I kept my trusty 2600k to be honest. With Intel focusing on mobile tech and power consumption rather than increasing raw performance, I am skipping everything until there is something that will really make me notice an upgrade in IPC from my 5Ghz 4790K. It's looking like that will be a while, which is great I guess. I do think that by this time an 8C/16T 5Ghz capable '7900K' should be out in the $350-$500 range, but with AMD basically irrelevant in the CPU space, and games not often taking advantage of more than 4 cores, that seems unlikely for at least a couple more years :/ I ran a dual hex Xeon (one of the older socket 1366 setups) for a little while, and even with 12 Cores and 24 Threads at 3Ghz, my Sandy Bridge was a better gaming setup in basically every scenario.
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