Sure makes sense… My usual approach is to upgrade once a 2x performance improvement becomes available. I am currently using an i7 2600 (4 core ~3.4 Ghz) which happily overclocks to ~4.5Ghz x 4 = 18Ghz. The 5960 will clock around 30Ghz assuming a conservative 1.25 overclock ratio (base clock frequency of 8 core is slower than 4/6 core siblings) so it all ends up around the 2x range. I might wait for a rev of an x99 board through as I am sure there will be issues for some time. In any event I am targeting December '14 for my upgrade.