The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

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Its funny how you still say the same thing over and over again, when its wrong.

You dont need to spend 1000$ to get a unlocked cpu, plus with unlocked multis you don't need expensive mobos, hell i bet with SB even the cheapest mobos gets the same exact oc as a highend SB 1155 board. The only thing that has to be up for the task is the power circuit.

i doubt quad channel mobo will be under$400 at the very least and cheapest quad under 350 . thats 400 extra for overclocking choices other than multipliers. quad channels dont mean much performancewise and 2011 quads wouldnt be that much performance increase over 1355 quads. so yeah 400extra for 2011 overclocking.

sure hex/octacore will be huge but they will be atleasst 600+ not mainstream..