Hey Jet, what would be an ideal north bridge for a lga 1155 ivy bridge i7?
Or even an i5, there's not too much of a significant performance difference other than the integrated video built in; which won't matter since I'd be getting a discrete video card.
I go back to these tables each time I look at boards, and I love the lga 1155 for right now. (as of 2 months ago when I last looked (ancient in technology terms I know) the best price/performance were on quad core i5's and i7's and the 1155 socket.
that being said:
the z68 would be great.
or the q77, those two support the most technologies.
personally I'd probably go with the z68, they're cheaper, more common and don't have all the protection tools embedded in them, which can get severely annoying, even if you disable them in the bios.
edit: I believe in both the i5 and the i7's the "k" versions are overclockable, and iirc the i5 2500k will smoke a lot of i7's, there's a few others that keep up with it better and probably would disagree as my information may be a bit dated.
there's also some ivy bridge cpu's out now, which would probably give better performance, but I really haven't looked.
good site I guess if you want to strain your eyes for awhile:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html