Quote Originally Posted by HKPolice View Post
I have a feeling Ivy Bridge will kill Sandy Bridge-E in games and definitely in raw clockspeed. Probably going to skip this platform just because of the stupid dimm and mosfet layout.
Highly unlikely, with no Ivy bridge EE on the board Intel will just stick on a locked top multiplier and have done with. As for games, without a clock advantage, how exactly is Ivy bridge going to beat a CPU with more cache same architecture and twice the memory bandwidth?

Dimm layout isn't that big a issue, it's just the easiest way to have all the traces a similar length. Anyway on a platform that high end you'd probably have a case with a top mounted fan anyway.