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Core 9000 series

z390 is for top tier boards. z370 will still have life left in them and still be sold .

i7 9700k makes no sense to anyone, specially with non K version (if it comes out)

would rather have i7 8700 6/12 thread on a B360 then i7 9700 8/8 on a B Board for workstation machine =s
 
I quite like the look of the 9700K actually, 5Ghz 8 cores will be more than enough processing grunt for the next 3-5yrs. HT is only really needed for Cinebench scores & if you do a lot of streaming/encoding, none of which I give a jot about.

Of course Zen 2 will land in 2019 with (at least) 8c16t CPU's at 4.5Ghz+ clock speeds and near as dammit comparable IPC, for similar money as the 9700K, so maybe the smart move would be to buy a Ryzen AM4 platform today in anticipation of a simple Zen 2 drop in upgrade next year.
 
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Cant be. Intel aint that stupid limiting the i7s to no hyperthreading.

They would get there assess handed to themselves in benchmarking anything other than games not to mention what this looks like to the customer.
 
Well reading back through the thread that is the consensus. And a LOT of people seem delighted that what was an I7 has now been rebranded as an I9 and people seem delighted to be charged and extra £100 for the privilege.
Well played Intel.
Everyone (including Intel) knew Intel would soon have to beef up their i7's to 8 cores 16 threads to catch up with Ryzen. And Intel marketers have decided to just label this chip an i9 and charge people an extra £100. Selling a version with hyperthreading disabled as an I7. At the price we used to pay for a hyperthreaded I7. It's laughable! They must have been getting ideas from Nvidia.

I mean, seriously how many people are going to pay £450 for 8c/16t Intel When you can get a 2700 for £250. Sure the intel has a faster clock speed but come on... It nigh on twice the price!
 
Predictably, yet unnecessarily, granular. And just renders the 9700K more redundant than a X299 quad core.

Why just not just have a i7 9700K with 6/12 as a clock-speed bumped successor to the 8700K (i.e. the 8086K :p ) and a i7 9900K as a 8/16? Worked perfectly well back in the Nehalem days; 920, 930, 970 and 980X were perfectly simple to understand despite the differing core counts.

Bin off i9 for mainstream and keep it purely for HEDT - marketing speak for "only high-end platforms get the truly high-end CPUs".
 
But but but muh cores are faster.. yep i can hear it now.

Truly ridicules and my god how much of a extermination intel will get half way through the 9xxx series lifecycle when AMD drop the next iteration of Zen.
Makes no sense with the 2700x and will make even less next year.
 
The media are so damn easy to twist. Everyone running the story of "Intels new amazing 8c/16t i9!!" As supposed to "i7's have hyper threading removed but price remains the same". Which is what is really happening here.
 
Can anyone state how trustworthy or untrustworthy these sources are? After all, it's not exactly a press release from Intel.
I would just be amazed if Intel would remove hyperthreading from its (extremely premium) i7 CPUs in the face of increased competition from AMD. it makes no sense.
 
Hm, that is good that z370 boards are compatible.

Might be tempted to upgrade my 8700 non k to one of the 8 core i9's. Two more cores and 4.7ghz all core compared to 4.3ghz all core would be a decent little step up.
 
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