Tech_TTT :
we want top of the line ARM CPU board PLEASE
You'll do a bit better with one of these:
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G145457216438
Still A53 cores, I know, but a fair bit faster than the Pi 3 and similarly priced.
http://www.96boards.org/products/
These are more expensive, but you can get:
■8x A53:
http://www.96boards.org/product/hikey/
■2x A72 + 4x A53 + 4x A53:
http://www.96boards.org/product/mediatek-x20/
■4x A57 in the form of AMD's Opteron A1100:
http://www.96boards.org/product/cello/
AMD is supposed to release the K12, this year. No clue what socket it'll use. If it's big enough, maybe Naples'. Otherwise, it'd be cool if they went with AM4.
Anyway, I gave up on ARM, for the time being. I just bought an ASRock J4205-ITX to replace my Pi-based micro-server.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J4205-ITX/index.us.asp
Sure, it burns more power than a Pi, but I can use a mainstream distro, I have a wide selection of cases (though I'd rather it were NUC/mini-STX form factor), and the graphics are fully-supported via both opensource and binary blob driver stacks. As for performance, it seems comparable to a similarly-clocked Core2 quad.
Maybe its replacement will be an ARM-based mini-ITX (or mini-STX). I thought it'd have happened by now, but I guess I was off by a couple years.