A little more accuracy is warranted. The new chip will not excel or will not compete with core i7 . Core i7 will continue as top dog.

The SSD's do not perform noticeably better than the older tech drives nor are they more durable.

 I typically use a Gigabyte X58 motherboard and assign 4 virtual core in conjunction with the standalone 4 nominal cores for an intuitive processor based 8 core performance value without overclocking.