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Thanks for all that. So far, the two big questions are if the both of the six core chips (I need eight and ten cores like I need another hole in the head; I could do quite nicely with four cores) will support 40 PCI-e lanes (the 5820k at the low end of Haswell-e supports only 28 lanes) and whether the Win 10 restriction will apply, same as the belated one the Skylake owners had sprung on them (I had been holding out for Skylake-e since there was a possibility it would have more PCI-e lanes, more SATA ports, and better USB 3.1 Gen 2 support but MS and Intel cruelly killed that idea).
So far, other than added cores (which, again, I don't need) and a bit more speed (which, again, I don't need; I'm not a gamer), I really don't see any improvements (yet), based on the above articles, which will be of benefit to me, unlike Ivy Bridge-e had over Sandy Bridge-e, which added support for PCI-e 3.0 instead of 2.0, something that was "leaked" (or, at least, speculated) well before Ivy Bridge-e was released.