Jstn7477 Perhaps Intel has been trying to nerf LGA 115x after the first two generations when it rocked. Not many people seem to buy their poopy HEDT platform because it's now two generations outdated and the mainstream platform is still "too good" I guess. If a Haswell HEDT platform were out, I would have gladly purchased one over my 1150 setup.

....ok....We know that Intel had thermal issues with SB-e. The proof of this being the 2 lasered off cores on each die.We know IB experimented with thermal paste, rather than solder. IB had a tendency to run hotter than SB.Intel isn't that kind of stupid. They chose to use the more expensive solder, because their experiment with paste failed. Of course, they could have discovered this 6 months into the IB 1155 life cycle, and put out an IB-e chip then. Apparently it took another 18 month for Intel to deem it necessary.Let's not go there. The nerfing of x79 was painful enough. The fact that the z87 PCH is better than the x79 in almost everything (yeah, less PCI-e lanes, but that's it) is severely depressing. You tend to get that though when you use a PCH that is based upon 4 year old technology when in came out (Patsburg was 65nm technology as far as I remember).Also, look back a few days. Haswell-e is slated for release in late 2014. Broadwell will already have moved into the consumer market prior to Haswell-e entering the market.Edit:Thinking about this a bit more, it dawns on me. You've got about a 10% increase in CPU performance from SB to IB. You've got another approximately 10% increase from IB to Haswell (they were focusing on the GPU after all). You've therefore got about a 21% increase from SB to Haswell. The amount of overclocking you can do can narrow what gap significantly, assuming that Haswell isn't decked out in DDR4 and the like.The difference between SB 1155 and Haswell 1150 is largely just a much upgraded PCH and IGP. The 2011 variants of these technologies forgo the IGP for more cores, so you're looking at minor gains in the CPU. The real difference is the PCH, which has been retained from SB-e to IB-e. Maybe Haswell will fix this, but as it stands the x79 disappointment stains anything a modest CPU performance increase can provide.