At first I was kinda expecting Sandy Bridge to perform the same as the first generation i7's, but it beats the 980x in half of the tests which is quite impressive but not impressive enough for me to replace my X58/1366 setup, waiting for 2011 or 1356 or whatever is next. But still, its quite a decent product from Intel, the i7 2600K quite a beast of a CPU. I wonder if Intel will drop the 980x price though.