panzlock wrote:
Here come the Intel price drops;
6950X: http://www.microcenter.com/product/463389/Core_i7-6950X_Broadwell-E_30_GHz_LGA_2011-3_Boxed_Processo...
6900K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/463390/Core_i7-6900K_Broadwell-E_32_GHz_LGA_2011-3_Boxed_Processo...
6850K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/463391/Core_i7-6850K_Broadwell_36_GHz_LGA_2011-3_Boxed_Processor
6800K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/463393/Core_i7-6800K_Broadwell_34_GHz_LGA_2011-3_Boxed_Processor
5820K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/437203/Core_i7-5820K_Haswell_33_GHz_LGA_2011-3_Boxed_Processor
7700K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/472529/Core_i7-7700K_Kaby_Lake_42_GHz_LGA_1151_Boxed_Processor
6700K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/451883/Core_i7-6700K_SkyLake_40_GHz_LGA_1151_Boxed_Processor
4790K: http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_Devil's_Canyon_40_GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Process...
and so on and so forth...
Hahaahaa price drop is funny. I paid cheaper my i7-5820K 2014.
Imagine who buy Intel Xtreme? Enthusiasts who want best of best.
They don't want to pay 500$ for CPU some other model is stronger for 500$.
And Intel i7-6900K still didn't even drop on 500$.
Because everyone who buy him have weaker CPU from two for 500$.
I doubt Intel could sell even for 500$ i7-6900K except small number.
wmunn wrote:
Well, due to the incompetence and lies from Amazon, I was unable to secure a crosshair vi hero for my build. Therefore, I will be using an asrock fata1ity x370 professional instead. Hopefully everything turns out, but in the back of my mind, I will never forget what Amazon did. not cool to take a first hour, first day preorder, and not ship it on the date promised.
If I ordered that early on, and didn't get it, how many people did this happen to today? How many people will be sitting with a processor and no board to go with it?
I have no such problems, when I like something I'm ready to wait even 2-3 weeks if need.
I used on ASUS BIOS and I can't say I don't like to change, yes that's true, but I don't need to change when ASUS is available and I could wait little.
Better wait Crosshair 6. It's weird how small number of motherboards, but AMD couldn't resist any more ... and when they recognize what market think about Ryzen they hurry to launch him before time.
First plan was to customers build RIGs in end of March or April.
Performance are so good and AMD deserve and Extreme and Gene motherboard.
Even I think to back to home.
I start gaming carrier with Athlon 3200+ 64bit and ASUS ATI 9800 PRO.
In that days hardware was more durable and more simple than now, RMA was very rear compare today.
One side tell me wait Intel X299 but other part say AMD. Because I would never bought processor more expensive than Ryzen 5, usually I go on cheaper models because Intel offer nothing for 500$, 12 PCI-E lanes more and 200MHz.. they sell for 600$.
Logic say that Intel can't launch 6 core CPU stronger than AMD 1800X. That mean Intel will have only 8 and 10 cores Skylake-E better than AMD in best scenario.
Except high price, we could only estimate 700-800 or 1000 their power consumption will be twice higher than AMD. Again Intel can't reach AMD performance per watt even with Skylake-E and Kaby Lake-E and their samples are finished before Ryzen show up.
Except if Intel have backup plan and we know nothing about that and after Ryzen is launched from them we hear only silence.
And reviews who try to justify Intel with poor i7-7700K. No one will help them except i7-7700K in games locked on 2 and 4 cores.
That's like team from 3rd league beat champion from 1st and they start to blame judge because they couldn't hit goal for 90 minutes or 5 years depend how you look.
