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Well, I ended up ordering parts for my new system today.

ASRock X58 Extreme
6 Gigs of 1600 DDR3
i7 920 (hopefully will be getting an i7 980X soon)

In the end it came down to upgrade path...

Thanks Ted, but I think we are talking about two different things here.

I don't plan on using the iGPU on the 670, it would be disabled. Price is not an issue because I would be getting it for...

Ted- did you guys test the i5 650,660,661 or 670? Been hearing that they can hit 4.6-5.0ghz on air.

Yeah, that is the problem. If I get the i5 670 now and it doesn't work well I could alway throw an i5 750 Quad in the Motherboard (1156) and it will be about as good as anything out at the moment.
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I will be building a new system soon. I currently run a Q9450 (3.7ghz), 4 gigs of DDR2 1066, ATI 4890, on a Win 7 64bit system.

Due to where I work my upgrade options are:

A: i5 750 for $100...