No newer platform is expected. It is widely anticipated that Intel will continue to use the existing X79 chipset until Haswell-E and its platform update are released--probably next year. The initial reports that there was an X99 chipset in the works for IB-E are almost certainly in error.
Motherboard manufacturers may choose to refresh their lineups, but any additional I/O ports would be by way of third party components as opposed to native functionality. I don't believe there's any compelling reason to upgrade from SB-E to IB-E. If I do (running a 3930k at 4.5GHz now), it'll only be because I want to. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jin-Wei Tioh Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Greg 4930K At 11:37 PM 6/25/2013, you wrote: >I was hoping to upgrade my sandy-e to ivy-e but don't know if it will >be worth it. I'm OC'd to 4.2Ghz (3930K). >Any thoughts? Unless you want the newer platform (more USB3, etc.), probably not since the IPC gain is ~3% (though a little higher in some corner cases). It would be interesting to see how an Ivy with solder TIM will overclock. -- Jin-Wei Tioh http://jwtioh.bluesonic.net "Death is just God's way of dropping Carrier Detect"
