Just finished reading the Anandtech review myself. Time to dethrone the i7 920 and declare the i7 860 as the new king of performance/cost. For those that may need to squeeze a little more out of their budget the i5 750 looks to perform ver well too and it's almost $100 cheaper. Overall it looks like the 750 is just about equal to the 920 in performance and the 860 matches the old 940. The 750 is only about $200, while the 860 and 920 are $300. The 940 was over $500 for comparison purposes. The big cost savings though is that the new CPU's use a LGA-1156 motherboard instead of the more expensive LGA 1366. So even if you are looking at the 860 vs the 920, you'll end up with a cheaper overall system even though the CPU's are priced the same.

The advantages that the 920 has over the 860 just don't add up to much - triple channel memory is about it, and overall the 860's lower latency memory controll and improved bandwidth mean that you end up with about the same memory speed even though you only have 2 channels instead of 3. On the flip side the 860 has a better clock speed than the 920, and that generally translates into more speed anyway. If you really do want 12GB of RAM instead of 8GB, you can still find LGA 1156 motherboards that come with 6x memory slots. The only performance reason that Anand could find for the 1366 CPUs is in the very upper end of dual gfx cards. Twin 4870x2's or twin 295's will still perform better on the 1366 mobo's than they do on the 1156 mobo's.

The only real reason to buy a 920 anymore is because the LGA 1366 motherboard will support next years 6x core CPU's. So if you want to buy a more expensive 4x core system now, but have the potential option of dropping in a 6x core CPU in the future, then go ahead and spend the money. But for now we have a cheaper faster quad core setup with the 750 or 860. For the same performance that we had yesterday, we can now build a system for about $200 cheaper.

Now for AMD to releast the new 5xxx GPUs in a few days