Intel 18-core i9-7980XE CPU leaks

They will most certainly have to be cheapER than before. Whether or not that constitutes as cheap we will see. It's very good for every one though. It shows that Ryzen is good enough to have them sweating and finally they are releasing more cores. Either way I would not be interested, what I would like to see is all 16 threads of my Ivy Xeon being used. If and when that happens and if I see any sort of CPU bottlenecking I will probably go for a 16 core Ryzen.

Again, not so bothered about the clock speed because I would rather see core support. The devs have a long way to go ! right now we're pretty much on 4 for gaming. So my CPU is hardly being touched.

Plus I think there will also be a price war. Maybe not an immediate one, but once AMD get their fab machines running and spitting out those 16 core CPUs they will get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. It's been a really long time since a CPU with that many cores has been mass produced by AMD. And their last ones weren't anything special either.

So yeah, I think I'm pretty much good for now. I will wait to see my 5820k, Xeon and 6 core Phenom 2 get some support, then when the dust has settled and the prices drop I will probably go big Ryzen.

Hopefully once AMD really get going with Ryzen and the yields improve it will also bring with it an improvement in quality and clockspeeds.

About the only thing keeping intel in the game at the moment is their CPUs can overclock higher, if AMD can take that advantage away then prices will really start falling.
 
The one thing that irks me is that if you want the full 44 PCI-E lanes you have to step up to the 10 Core processor, which I feel will be well north of $1,000.
 
Hopefully once AMD really get going with Ryzen and the yields improve it will also bring with it an improvement in quality and clockspeeds.

About the only thing keeping intel in the game at the moment is their CPUs can overclock higher, if AMD can take that advantage away then prices will really start falling.

In some games an 8 core Ryzen at 4ghz will beat a 7700k at 5ghz. It's much closer now in performance with all this optimization going on since launch
 
In some games an 8 core Ryzen at 4ghz will beat a 7700k at 5ghz. It's much closer now in performance with all this optimization going on since launch

What I am thinking regarding all of this is that it's good to see higher counted core CPUs release. But it's also prices that needs to be matched and not feel like a kick in the balls, as well as you felt like you just got robbed off your bank account.

Which is something that I haven't considered till today really, now that I've had some rough months, I'm 95% about price/performance and budget mind oriented really.

But also, one thing that I've lately considered, specially since backing up the recently launched Kickstarter of the Dan Cases A4 SFX v2 case, is TDP.

Many cores etc is all good, but TDP's must improve as well. I mean, really here, for decades Intel has been releasing 4c/8t CPUs, with almost identical TDPs?... I mean, for real? And then AMD comes and puts their high end at 95W and their lower 1700 at mere 65W?.

Now I'm not that educated in thermals etc, but in my eyes, that is improvements. Specially considering for SSF builds, which are becoming increasingly more popular.
 
Many cores etc is all good, but TDP's must improve as well. I mean, really here, for decades Intel has been releasing 4c/8t CPUs, with almost identical TDPs?... I mean, for real? And then AMD comes and puts their high end at 95W and their lower 1700 at mere 65W?.

Now I'm not that educated in thermals etc, but in my eyes, that is improvements. Specially considering for SSF builds, which are becoming increasingly more popular.
Don't eat up those TDP numbers raw, they are not actually the real-world numbers the CPUs use, at all :)

I've got the V1 of the Dan A4SFX, I run a 2600K at stock, it's painful after having it @ 4.5Ghz with water for 6 years - TDP has suddenly become very important to me too!
 
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