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Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X Flagship Processor To Rock 10 Cores

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P.B said:
Won't this still limit its over locking and be pointless towards games ?
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Well I don't suppose anyone would use the flagship for gaming, I'd certainly imagine its aimed at content creation and those of us who like to do compute intensive tasks for BOINC Projects etc... Team 10 (OcUK) recently finished 2nd in the DENIS Challenge and I'd certainly consider changing out my 5930k for this.
 
I suppose the thing to see come bench results will be whether its worth the money compared to say a 14 or 16 Core Xeon that you could drop into your X99 for less money (non-retail ofc). I'm purely focusing on compute output though, before anyone mentions gaming. I'm sure no one in their right mind would buy this for a purely gaming stand point.

Manufacture was rumoured to start Q1 2016 anyone seen otherwise? I found an article at cpu-world which suggests March-April release.
 
I wonder with regards to pricing will they take into account what Zen could bring to the table, of course we have no clue how they will compare performance wise yet. I'd love to see AMD attempt to give Intel some competition, if anything to try keep prices sensible.
 
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