http://www.techspot.com/news/46432-intels-...ked-slides.html

Forget the techs and see and compare how it works , the primary program is FSX .

Dont think there will be much change in performance in the new 22nm ivybridge cpu's and with intel's wisdom we need yet another whole new mother board. Remember when we changed from 65nm core 2's to 45nm'core2's. Not much changed except lower power consumption and a whole raft of new cut down low cost cpu's with stuff all cashe. I am only 4months into a 2500K and i havnt even reallt treched its legs yet. Think I will hold out for a whole new generation.

Then again, there will be MS "Flight" to deal with in the not too distant future.

Flight won't do much better least in compare to addon,s , pre FSX many promises in how PCs would preform went down the toilet , all this talk and rush for speed is only any good if your NOT to use the system for FS .

One bonus about Ivy Bridge is that it will introduce PCI-E 3 (faster graphics cards); well once the new PCI-E 3 cards come out that is. Some motherboards coming out now will support it with the new CPUs.

Yes the Gigabyte Z68 covers 22nm but I doub that PCI-Express 3.0 will do anything for FSX. The 2.0 bandwidth is now where near saturated so the 3.0 version I expect wont do much. Not untill we have a sim that renders with a GPU anyway.

Yip the bandwidth , why compare or mention , end off the day most people systems are only to get the best , 20/30 FPS on a very top PC for FSX is all you will get .

No changes for me for a few years, got FSX running well on an i7 2500k system, so like others, I will wait for a completely new generation before upgrading. If it was just a case of changing the chip, then I might be possibly interested, but having to change the motherboard etc. again is just a non-starter for me. If money was no object, then it would be different.

FSX is working well, with most of the sliders maxed out, so I will give the next processors a miss.

smooth landings.