i3-2120 today and ivy in 6 months or i5-2500k and ivy in a year?

2500K

Why? The resale value of the 2500K isn't going to be declining by all that much in a year. WIth the release of the 2700 and the upcoming socket 2011 to replace the dated 1366 there will be some decline but nothing substantial. When you are done with the 2500K E-Bay, Craigslist and many other avenues are open to you so that you can recoup about 80% of your investment and be happy that someone that couldn't afford one at full price was able to because of you. Having to go a 6 months with the dual core i3 just doesn't make sense to me. Of course I am a bit partial because I own and have heard so much about the 2500K. Selling the 2500K will defray the cost of the new Ivy bridge. In addition to that you give the market some time to reveal flaws and allow for any corrections that might need to be done. This isn't going to be a tick like the Sandy bridge and while there may be a increase in performance max I don't see it as being anything close to epic. A 22nm polish job and not a overhaul it will be. To be perfectly frank I don't see a need to upgrade again. Maybe stay with the 2500K I mean this is VERY crude but this http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-ivy-brid... doesn't really thrill me. The number's don't look impressive to me. I am thinking that you are a bit more informed than I so is there going to be something epic that you would advise me to upgrade to Ivy?

Operating System

MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz 31 °C

Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM

8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-25)

Motherboard

MSI P67A-G43 (MS-7673) (SOCKET 0) 35 °C

Graphics

DELL 1704FPV (1280x1024@60Hz)

COMPAQ FS7600 (1024x768@85Hz)

1280MB GeForce GTX 570 Classified (EVGA) 36 °C

Hard Drives

78GB Western Digital WDC WD800JD-00MSA1 ATA Device (SATA) 31 °C

977GB Seagate ST31000528AS ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C

Optical Drives

ATAPI iHAS124 Y ATA Device

Audio

Realtek High Definition Audio

I googled up the Ivy Bridge Processors and I saw the same thing. In fact, the jump from Lynnfield to Sandy Bridge is bigger than the Jump from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. well, that's just an ES chip. the final version may be a bit better.

I would just spend a little more on a Core i5. If you don't need to overclock then get a non-K model. $50 more get you at least an Core i5-2400.

The ivy bridge processors are 5% faster clock for clock... so I would go with the 2500k

2500k toady.