Endless Wait Cycle

I thought I can finally upgrade my Conroe after 5 years...

But now they're going to release something known as "Sandy Bridge-E" in Q4 2011,

which will have 6 cores and also a new socket (i.e need to change motherboard)...

But if I wait until Q4 2011... then I might as well wait 22nm Ivy Bridge coming in early 2012, which:

"there will be support for DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1, and Intel is targeting a 30 percent graphics performance and 20 percent overall performance boost compared to Sandy Bridge. It seems that Ivy Bridge might get 16 graphics execution units (4 more than Sandy Bridge). Ivy Bridge will also support PCI Express 3.0.^"

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As you can see, it's an endless wait cycle.

Not to mention that my funds are now "frozen" by the US government... 

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