Crazy how it's now officially 2011, Sandy Bridge is going to be released and BD hopefully in a few months. Wow. BD better come out swinging, because if Intel's 2500K & 2600K trade blows with the 980x, imagine what their higher-end 2011 processors will do. At this point it would be kind of stupid to buy 1156, 1366, AM3 processors if you are building a new system based around a $200-$300 CPU.