Hopefully all of us already know what tick-tock is, thank you very much. My argument was that since Intel's going to probably be implementing MCM in Broadwell (a tick), it barely even matters anymore whether the upgrade's a tick or a tock, in terms of actual performance. And it's funny that you don't seem to care about Skylake vs Skymont since you've shown some weird attachment to the word tock, no matter how justified it may or may not be (marketing at work).
But it sounds like you've made a decision, so congratulations. I still think holding out when you have a computer that can't do what you want it to when Intel's basically coming out with a new upgrade every year is pretty much insanity, but to each their own. For what it's worth, I see MCM making a much larger impact than whatever energy-saving techniques Intel implements in Haswell (although I could be wrong).
EDIT: Allow me to show you a graph to illustrate this. The biggest upgrade to Intel chips in recent history was the change from Northbridge to Platform Controller Hub (PCH). Most laymen know this as the "C2D to iX" switch. Now, Ivy Bridge still runs off this chipset arch (Panther Point, a type of PCH), and we're pretty sure Haswell will as well (rumored code name: Lynx Point). However, when we get the Broadwell "tick", the die size will be shrunken to 14nm. At this point, what Intel will possibly and probably do is switch to a new chipset arch (different than microarch), known as Multi Chip Module (MCM), a change that is too advanced to implement at 22nm. This is the change that I see possibly as big as the C2D to iX switch, and in my opinion, the one to watch out for.
http://www.nordichardware.com/image...et/Broadwell_MCM/fullimages/Broadwell_MCM.png
