[jr2]

Why not get the i5 now and spring for the i7 a year or two later when it's price has come down due to new platforms being available?

[Grizzly]

Why not get the i5 now and spring for the i7 a year or two later when it's price has come down due to new platforms being available?

Because the minimal performance gains then will still not be worth the money.
Also, perhaps a bit of false economy applies.

[jr2]

You can usually get used ones on eBay... and you can sell your old i5.     Depends on how long you wait I guess.  Replaced a Celery with a Core 2 Duo in my sister-in-law's laptop, doubled the RAM to 4GB all for $30 using eBay.

[Fury]

I got a 980 for partly this reason as well, but the DP support on these cards is wonky with the current drivers. There are many people having DP-related issues, especially with waking from sleep. It works for me but only if I don't turn off my monitor while it's on sleep.

Sadly this is true. Whenever I use DP, Windows would use standard VGA res on cold boot, taking its sweet time to detect native res. After warm boot (restart) I could no longer get signal to monitors. I can't believe NVIDIA QA would miss these DP related issues, but they did.

Have to use DVI until these issues are sorted.

Turns out ALL my DisplayPort problems were in fact caused by faulty DisplayPort-cable. After replacing that one cable, I don't seem to have any DP-issues anymore. Monitors go and wake from sleep without issues as well.

[Sandwich]

I'm waiting to see what (if any) Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals appear here in Israel this year. They're both really American "holidays", but I think a number of local computer chains held sales for one of those last year, so I hope to cash in on something this year, especially since prices here are around 28% higher than they are on Newegg.

[CP5670]

Turns out ALL my DisplayPort problems were in fact caused by faulty DisplayPort-cable. After replacing that one cable, I don't seem to have any DP-issues anymore. Monitors go and wake from sleep without issues as well.

I've heard of that. Apparently many DP cables are not designed to the spec correctly. I'm still getting occasional, random failed wakes or blurry screens in the BIOS, although it's rare. I'll need to get a new cable.

[Klaustrophobia]

i've not ever looked into it, but why use display port over DVI? 

[Fury]

I've heard of that. Apparently many DP cables are not designed to the spec correctly. I'm still getting occasional, random failed wakes or blurry screens in the BIOS, although it's rare. I'll need to get a new cable.

I don't think this was a spec issue but more downright faulty cable. Replaced it with same brand and model and the new one works.

[CP5670]

i've not ever looked into it, but why use display port over DVI? 

In my case, my monitor only supports DP and HDMI, and only DP for 120hz. I think DP is also needed on the 4K displays to run at even 60hz.

[Fury]

I think DP is also needed on the 4K displays to run at even 60hz.

HDMI 2.0 supports up to 4096×2160p60, 1.4 up to 4096×2160p30. So you could run 4k display at its native resolution, but not at the highest supported refresh rate assuming it's over 60.

Klaustrophobia, you do realize that if you had looked it up on google or directly on wikipedia, you wouldn't have had to ask?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Advantages_over_DVI.2C_VGA_and_FPD-Link