I have á i7 2600K in a bench setup for test and I’m impressed with its performance so far (considering that it costs about 1/3 of the i7 980x).
Compeered to á i7 980x setup, my 2600K was just 25 sec slower running the “Sony Vegas Rendertest-2010” (both systems over clocked, my total time was 129 sec).
6 minute tandem renders in just over 2 minutes, the source being from á Sony CX106E in AVCHD using a lot of cross fades, 4 sections of 33% slow motion, and two sections with superimposed animated text.
I can deal with the chipset issue until it’s resolved, for now I will use the two 6GB/s SATA’s and the E-SATA that are supposed to be safe to use.