I upgraded from a Phenom II 955 BE. I had to OC that to 3.8 to get half-decent speeds on Xenoblade. But I can get full 30 frames per second on stock on my i5. That is crazy.
Congrats on your new system. Intel's products have been the choice for a lot of Dolphin users for very good performance reasons, as you've found out. We're not "fanboys" after all :p
Welcome to the club

. Got mine on launch day. Friggin awesome. Make sure you update your sig!
Congratulations

It will serve you well.
It felt like it was only yesterday I bought my own Ivy Bridge i7 3770K also around release.
I got a small itch for Haswell though now that it's only a few months away...
Mine should be here early next week. Can't wait any more

Congrats!
I'm going with the sandy and going to clock to 5, but waiting till after xmas, cant wait to play some of these demanding games at full speeds.
Grats!
I updated to 15-2500k earlier this year, and it's awesome too! 4.3GHz seems to chew away games like nothing

I'm definitely a believer now. I use to be a hardcore AMD too lol
i also have the i5 3570k but i cant oc it to 4.1 max or it's blue screen
here is my cool fan :
NH-C12P SE14