[lesstutrey]

I say i should hunt down a gulftown, but it almost feels like i'm pretty much all the way to a good SB setup for good ram and a gulftown xtreme. Every 3d bench would be owned by the sandy, right? And even 2d is gonna end up better on a SB setup, unless i had some absurdly good gulftown, correct? But of course all that is gonna change with the new SBe.

Lets put it simple
If you were in my shoes, you have everything for SS and LN2, you have a good bloomfield already with little benching, (same batch chip CBB at like -115c if that really even means anything) and finally a board that lets you get to the chips potential, and have the money to spend on a gulftown (990 or 980.. or xeon equivs) and some gtx doms that will run cas 7 and it will cost ballpark 800$. What direction would you go with that money? And of course i know new stuff from intel about to drop so there is always the dreaded, waiting a few months and benching the tons of other, cheaper CPUs, and of course the bloomfield, step up from the q6600 everything else was submitted with.