[Buckeye]

Sadly there is no competition between Intel and AMD anymore, for many years now. AMD will be coming out with 36 core Opty's tho, maybe... soon... who knows.

For me Socket 2011 R3 is where its at. The V3 CPU's are pure monsters with all the cores they run. Even that is soon to change with 20 core CPU's and Kinghts Landing with 240ish cores.

I haven't mess with desktop stuff in ages and only just received a Supermicro C7X99-OCE and 5960x here, my first single socket system in some time now. This is going to be a workstation, will be nice to actually OC again, if I can figure this board out LOL.

I am not sure what the dif. between 1150/1155/1156 platforms is either LOL.

Well we went for a long time OCing chips the hard way which was fun, but the drive for overclocking evolved into what Intel came up with to even the playing field.

IMO everything changed when Sandy Bridge came out. I remember hearing reports of 5ghz on air and I went suuuure, I will have to see it to believe it. Well we know how that story went. After that everything changed... for the better ? I think so, I was running a SS Phase changed system on a QX9770 or QX9650 and getting 4.6ghz I think it was and thought man this is a beast.