The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

[RPGWiZaRD]

I don't even want quad channel, much more risk of a RAM stick failure with 4 sticks compared to 2 (I've dealt with too much annoying slow-death micron DDR2 failures already) and overclocking 2 RAM sticks is easier than 4. Sure the performance won't be quite as good but I don't expect the huge extra cost LGA2011 setup will be worth it in practice for the more performance/cost ratio minded person. It sounds like it might even be a bit expensier at launch than X58 was. SB sounds exciting to me but AMD's offering also does and I'm no fanboy of any company (for CPU it stands 5 AMD vs 3 Intel CPUs used so far) so it'll be interesting times ahead.