Intel's Broadwell-E 6950X 10-core may cost $1500

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Intel's Broadwell-E 6950X 10-core may cost $1500, which is a huge increase in price compared to Intel's last generation $1000 5960X.

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Still cheap compared with a 6700k.

Ok, maybe it's not. But all CPU prices seem to have stepped up a fair bit bar 2011-3 following Skylake's launch, so seeing Broadwell-E go up too, especially with the addition of two more cores is to be expected. It will be interesting to see what other internal tweaks may come along with this generation, more PCIe lanes would be nice, 44 or 50 or so :D

JR
 
Still cheap compared with a 6700k.

Ok, maybe it's not. But all CPU prices seem to have stepped up a fair bit bar 2011-3 following Skylake's launch, so seeing Broadwell-E go up too, especially with the addition of two more cores is to be expected. It will be interesting to see what other internal tweaks may come along with this generation, more PCIe lanes would be nice, 44 or 50 or so :D

JR

TBH I was very surprised the price did not go up with the 5960X's launch.

As you said, this is not really unexpected with 2 more cores, a new process node and a new architecture.
 
Still cheap compared with a 6700k.

Actual real LOL.

As for the price? I kind of expected it really. This is what the CPU landscape looks like with no competition and it's not chuffing nice.

And people hate on AMD and wish they weren't around any more. Sheesh, I actually shudder to think what Nvidia would charge if they had the audience all to themselves.
 
Meh, I had to pay about 850 for my 5930k and my 5960x was about $1400 as I got them both at release (well release in AU anyways :D ) Not too bothered by it. If I wanted value for performance I would have definitely just gone with the mainstream i5 or maybe i7.

Funnily enough at one point in time my 5930k was worth more than I paid for it :D
 
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These will be going into X99 though so it's probably X99 V-4

nah they will go onto current boards and the new one will be called x99 refresh. Gigabyte has shown some of those at CES.
 
nah they will go onto current boards and the new one will be called x99 refresh. Gigabyte has shown some of those at CES.

The only boards Gigabyte showed off were the X170 boards which are for the Skylake Xeon CPU's, Basically Z170 but for Xeon.
 
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The only boards Gigabyte showed off were the X170 boards which are for the Skylake Xeon CPU's, Basically Z170 but for Xeon.

Wrong. X99P which will utilize full 32MB/s m. 2 and Intel thunderbolt.
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Meh, I had to pay about 850 for my 5930k and my 5960x was about $1400 as I got them both at release (well release in AU anyways :D ) Not too bothered by it. If I wanted value for performance I would have definitely just gone with the mainstream i5 or maybe i7.

Funnily enough at one point in time my 5930k was worth more than I paid for it :D

Should've sold it and just used the 5960x:p
 
My 5960x doesnt OC particularly well。hits a wall at 4.7 @ 1.47v. Not comfortable pushing that kind of power with these power phases.
 
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What is it you guys need sooo much power in one box for?

I mean, would it not make sense to have several boxes using 'back for the buck' components do the heavy lifting in parallel ?
 
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