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[H]F Junkie
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I think a much better bang for the buck is a dual LGA2011. The e5-2660/2665/2670's are under $100 now and the e5-2680 is just over. 2 gives you 16 cores, 32 threads 9sandy bridge) with room to upgrade to ivy when they get cheap. You can then move to 12 core/24 thread PER CPU down the road....An i5 2500K is just at the point of no reason to upgrade for gaming. Just wait. Either the 7700K will deliver a reason for a gaming upgrade, or ebay prices on older CPUs will be lower.
No one said it, but IMO the "best bang" on Intel is still a couple of Xeons X56xx inside an EVGA SR-2 mobo: 12c/24t at 4.4GHz OC.