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No Sandy Bridge yet - what now?
Am itching to do a build (the 1st) and was going to do one with a Sandy Bridge CPU to compare with my son's AMD "Beast".
Now it seems waiting till April for the board to be fixed but just want to get on with something.
Any ideas on an Intel CPU that comes reasonably close to the SB specs -i5 2500 (and price) so I can get going. I know that it will probably mean having to get a decent graphics card but that's life eh?
Just an average user wanting to build something with a bit of grunt and perhaps a bit of overkill to experiment with. I would also like to have something that isn't going to be obsolete and difficult to get parts for say in the next 2-3 years.