Haven't read through the comments but you gotta think what's best for you... LGA 2011 will be a good system but if your just gaming on it might just be way overkill. I'd say wait for LGA 1155, if it doesn't meet your needs get a cheaper x58 setup.
You'll be waiting too long for 2011, and it'll likely be expensive and you'll have to wait some more for prices to fall.
naw x58 is overkill for consumers including gamers.
Ideal chip imo right now is the 875k, as long as you're going to be using 2 or fewer graphics cards and 2 or fewer memory banks.
The unlocked aspect of that chip lets you set the turbo multipliers to whatever your system can handle, which gives you a system that overclocks itself only when needed. My system runs at less than 2 GHz when idling and is absolutely silent, but ramps up to 4.2 when needed (with an increase in fan noise of course). That way you can have a 24/7 overclocked system without having to strain your components and waste energy when the extra speed isn't needed. You could do the same with the 980x, but that thing is >1k.
[note, the graphics and memory module restrictions are there because the 800 chips only have 16 pcie lanes, which means if there are three cards or more sharing them, performance drops off considerably. But the hit with 1 card is zero, and with 2 cards it's negligable. The memory module restriction is there because if you have all four dimm slots populated, the on-board memory controller in the chip won't be able to handle much in the way of memory overclocking, but it's no problem with only two slots populated.]
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