Quote Originally Posted by jstanthr View Post
IMO go with the ivy bridge, the sandy bridge has a chance of stuttering depending on your HDD/SSD setup, it's primarily due to the way the SATA bus interfaces with the PCIE lanes that are available, Ivy bridge is a lot more futrure proof as well.
Can you substantiate this claim? I'm using a i7-2600 which is a sandy bridge cpu, never had any problem with stuttering.