Well, I am so glad to have started this thread.
I did too. You already have a very fast setup. 4559 at 3.0 ghz on Passmark, plus, you have a 25% overclock. That should put it at around 5700, or so. An i975 is going to run around 7000, or you could go with a 1550 dollar 5590 Xeon. That would get you 7200.
It appears that the way to go is the 1366 socket. Since you have run such a high overclock,
about 8 gigs of premium 2200 ram, some sort of trick cooler, all seem like reasonable suggestions. I wonder if you'll notice any of this, given you already have a very fast setup.
I suggested a motherboard that is dual 1366 capable. You could start with one Xeon, and, if that doesn't work for you, go for another. The only way to really get a big speed jump for you is going to be going to dual processors, or, perhaps the 6 core processors when they come out.
The new AMD dual, and 6 core processors might be worth looking at as well.
Handurin really answered your question gave you a road map:
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You may want to go the path of 1336 and lean towards the 32nm Gulftown when it becomes readily available. Gulftown should be out the first half of 2010 unless if it gets delayed. The name will rumored to be Intel Core i9 giving you 6 cores and 12 execution threads with 50% more L3 cache over current i7 CPUs.
Will there be other Gulftown CPUs besides the Core i7 980EX? The Intel Extreme CPUs are usually ~$1K.
I don't really get why you are bummed the processor is a 1000 dollars, when you set a 2000
dollar budget for ram, cpu, and motherboard.
Also, you gave very little information on the function this computer is going to do.
David has been complaining that Intel hasn't come up with anything faster for awhile as well.
Merc's advice is sound, in that it appears the 1366 will be upgradeable down the road, though the motherboard makers may or may not include support for the 6 core chips.
The problem I see is if you follow his advice, you are almost going sideways. You are already faster then the i7 920 speed (5589), though they are supposed to be easily overclockable.
I don't really see a budget replacement setup that is going to be faster then what you have.
This was and is an excellent thread, mainly thanks to Handurin, and his posts on Intels'
plans for the next year or so. REALLY HELPFUL HANDURIN. THANK YOU.