Broadwell-E Price points and ETA?

[Caracus2k]

I'd expect the default/stock memory speed for Broadwell-E to be higher than the 2133MHz of Haswell-E, especially as there are a lot of X99 motherboards supporting up to 3333Mhz.

I do wonder if Broadwell-E will suffer from the deliberate low supply from Intel like they did with Skylake.

two points

1) memory speeds over 2400mhz yield almost flat results when running pretty much anything other than a specialised memory bandwidth benchmarking software on X99 (and Z170 whilst we are on the subject)

2) Haswell-E/ X99 has no problems running memory at 2400mhz you will only start running into issues at around 3000mhz depending on silicon lottery

I would not be surprised if Broadwell-E 'officially' supports 2400mhz of even 2666mhz but it will make **** all difference to anyone who knows anything about the X99 platform


Additionally re the 6700K

I understand that Intel's situation with Skylake was at least partially to do with yield issues from the 14nm (ish!) process otherwise its largely down to Intel underestimating demand....

The idea that Intel have been 'killing it' is pretty much a myth! Its all down to shortages at retail allowing the people who sell on the CPU's to Joe public to price the CPU's with a far larger margin for themselves. At least one post from OCUK staff confirms this stating that retailers in general (not just OCUK) were making far larger profits on SKylake CPU's them previous top end consumer CPU's

The launch tray price from Intel was very similar to previous top end consumer CPU's with 4 cores and 8 threads. Adjusted for inflation it cost about the same as a 2700K!

(from a previous thread I posted this.....)

Check out the launch bulk prices (i.e. what Intel sell on to retailers OEM’s etc) for the previous ‘top end’ i7 consumer socket four core/ eight thread CPU’s over the past four years


http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85193-intel-core-i7-6700k-14nm-skylake/

Launch 1ku prices

6700k $350 - August 2015
5775c $366
4790k $339
4770k $339
3770k $313
2700k $332 - October 2011


Allowing for inflation (http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ ) from 2011 to 2015 plugging the 2700k value in gives an inflation adjusted price of…………………….


Drum roll


$351.20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and if you factor in inflation for the 4770k (march 2013) to 2015 the price goes from 339 to 346
so basically adjusted for Inflation Intel's 4c/8t top end cpu pricing has remained pretty much unchanged

As you can see here....

http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

Intel are still listing a bulk price for the 6700K of $350 dollars

The variation in pricing consumers see in the UK is largely due to £/$ rate changes and any gluts or shortages in the distribution network

Intel have remained remarkably consistent with their pricing structure! (especially when you look at the effect of inflation)