So I am currently running a Phenom 2 720be, (tri core at 2.8ghz) on a Asus 990x board. I brought this motherboard to be ready for bulldozer. Kinda got bored and fed up with waiting for amd to produce a next generation CPU that is worth buying. Bulldozer just seems to consume too much power and lack oomph compared to Intel's equivalent.
So I am now looking at replacing with the following :
Intel i5 3570 @ £177
And Asus maximus V motherboard
Not had a intel CPU since my old core duo E6300, is the above a good match. I use SSDs , USB 3. I see the Intel chip sets are a lot better than amds current ones with regard to speeds on USB 3 and SSDs


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And you lose nothing from waiting - Ivy Bridge isn't going to go up in price suddenly, and if AMD manage to pull something special out of the bag with Vishera for the desktop, it might even go down.