WYP
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Intel's upcoming X299 CPU socket has been revealed in some new SiSoft Sandra benchmarks, alongside an i7 7740K CPU.
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Intel X299 motherboard spotted with an i7 7740K CPU
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Doomslayer
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Intel is going to come back hard lol
Excalabur50
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They wont be coming back hard if they're still stupidly overpriced
You forget people lack the intelligence to realise they are overpriced. Sales will still be made in high numbers.
I skipped X99 and stayed with my X79 setup as the CPU performance increase wasn't great enough to warrant the expenditure. Almost £1000 to get CPU, Motherboard and DDR4 Memory for a 10-15% increase in single threaded performance (3930K -> 5930K). Just didn't seem worth it.
I think I'd be on board if they lower the price of the 8 core (which I doubt they will) or the IPC gain is substantial like 25-30% over Sandy Bridge-E which is what my 3930K is.
Would be nice to get some of the newer features as-well like the M.2 slot for a 960 Pro etc
I think I'd be on board if they lower the price of the 8 core (which I doubt they will) or the IPC gain is substantial like 25-30% over Sandy Bridge-E which is what my 3930K is.
Would be nice to get some of the newer features as-well like the M.2 slot for a 960 Pro etc
Korreborg
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Doomslayer
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I'm more hype with X299 than anything else apart from Volta cause i want to see what Intel does with the X299 motherboards.
NickOmega
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People buy Apple products. Higher price = Nice/better product
I'm not sure by what measure or comparison Apple is "better", unless you're saying that people *think* it's better because it's higher priced.
TheF34RChannel
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Despite being interested in seeing what Skylake-X will do, I don't think I'll change my setup until Intel brings mainstream 6-core to the market that boost to 4.5GHz + out of the box on all cores. And make them affordable ha ha; any enthusiast platform, like X299 is well over my budget.
