Quote Originally Posted by mikeysg View Post
If you have a 2500K/2600K or higher, don't bother. Performance gain from SB to IB isn't by much, better Integrated gfx and power consumption.....but no substantial performance gain.

Edit - That's one of the reasons why I went SB-E, so that I'd not feel a need to upgrade to IB.
The main reason wasn't for the performance gain but functionality. I was short sighted and bought a budget motherboard when I bought the 2500k. It only has 2 USB 3.0 plugs on the back and it isn't a very stable overclocker. I'm just in a strange place for upgrading. It isn't often when the CPU is fine but the motherboard is lacking. If Ivy wasn't the marginal upgrade over sandy that it proved to be, it would be much easier to justify the switch to a Z77 board.

Oh well, maybe Piledriver will be interesting