PP, I have to disagree with that. I find it funny the way people think of each platform we had in the past. For example, lot of people say that X58 was an enthusiast platform, while P67/Z68 is mainstream. I actually like P67/Z68 way more than the X58, and personally I do not need extreme tweaking options that the X58 chipset provided in the BIOS. X79 is suppose to be the next enthusiast platform, hence the naming Sandy Bridge E (Enthusiast). X79 should provide the user with very similar tweaking options that X58 did, but with a few more twists here an there. You will also have 6-core processors, and high-performance memory controller, going from a dual-channel from the P67/Z68 to a quad-channel DDR3-1333MHz memory controller. Either way, i do not always look at the enthusiast category as the most tweakable platform , but also at its performance. From what I've heard, performance should be slightly higher than what X58 had on the six-core chips and the SB-E chips should have the same architecture as the current SB processors but without the integrated graphics portion, therefore providing almost the same possible overclocking potential if the cooling is right. Those CPUs should be higher TDP so more cooling will be needed to get the chips to run at what current SB chips are running at.