Here's my situation.
I need a computer that can Virtual Machine at least 5 computers/servers without any major strain on the Physical and Virtual Machines. I'm setting up a virtual business environment for me to go bananas on (Going into IT security and what not, so there will be instances where I'm bombarding this machine). Think of it like a controlled environment.
I also want to play games.
So, with that in mind (Money isn't a huge factor, but obviously if I can save it, I'll save it.) do I get the 990x which is a bajillion dollars, but has 12 total cores (6 physical, 6 virtual) or go Sandybridge, which is ultimately faster, but less cores able to dedicate towards the VMs.
Running the VMs is almost, if not a little bit more of a priority than running games at OMGWTF graphics.
I'm just not sure. I'm leaning towards the 990x, however I really don't want to spend $1k on a processor that will be blown away by ivybridge whenever it decides to come out.
Also take into consideration, that a lot of the stronger motherboards out there are 1366 slot type.