Well, I’m finally going to get my hands on an Intel Xeon Processor and an ASRock X58 Extreme. Yes, I’m going backwards a bit to get better performance. It feels a little weird but for the cost it’s well worth the upgrade to six cores. I could have gone with an ASRock Extreme 6 setup with an Ivy Bridge based Xeon, but the cost wouldn’t have been worth it for what… a 10 frame increase in performance? No thanks. For a little under $300 this is an excellent performance upgrade.
So in a few days I should get my new parts, and my R9 290 should be returning from MSI around the same time. Can’t wait to get rid of this unstable mobo and game with a six core Xeon.