It already is! I've swapped old i7-3820 @ 4.3GHz for E5-2697v2 few months ago. Bought another 32Gigs of RAM, and now I already have PCIe 3 (long overdue). I've

It already is! I've swapped old i7-3820 @ 4.3GHz for E5-2697v2 few months ago. Bought another 32Gigs of RAM, and now I already have PCIe 3 (long overdue). I've also tried to overclock it via BCLK (100-110MHz) and gained ~300MHz. It happily compiles and runs windows in KVM with no problem (GPU over PCIe passthrough, and looking-glass yay!). Overall experience seems a lot smoother than i7, probably due to 30MB L3 and a lot more cores.