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How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

im sitting here with money to buy but in all honesty im not agreeing with the pricing of the intel stuff.

i7 6700k bundles are £100 too much for what they are.

i7 5820k is probably the same.

then you factor in if you on sandy/ivy and oc do you need to go to those platforms for overpriced differences.

if they were priced in the sweet spots many would buy but because we know they are not people are just not buying them.

you can say but they are as much as you want. 25 percent down on last year.says " we are not " ;)
 
~>Dg<~ said:
im sitting here with money to buy but in all honesty im not agreeing with the pricing of the intel stuff.

i7 6700k bundles are £100 too much for what they are.

i7 5820k is probably the same.

then you factor in if you on sandy/ivy and oc do you need to go to those platforms for overpriced differences.

if they were priced in the sweet spots many would buy but because we know they are not people are just not buying them.

you can say but they are as much as you want. 25 percent down on last year.says " we are not " ;)
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Yeah i agree, if they priced them a little better i'd be all over them. I wouldn't even entertain the idea if i wasn't recording/streaming as my CPU still holds out well without doing them.

But doing one if not both on top it's just a little to much for it to handle with gaming on top nowadays hence the pining for a nice new i7.
 
The i7 6*** series of CPUs are a rip off for their price. Need to lop 50-70 quid off them to be a viable proposition.
 
If zen is as good as AMD are making out by saying it has atleast 40% better IPC performance than thier previous cpus then they could be good. Depends how they overclock and what price they come in at.

They have potential but AMD are known for talking a big game then under delivering on the day.
 
Eh, Zen will probably compete well with Ivy Bridge. Anything with -E on the end will be faster and by the time we get Zen we will probably be on Kaby Lake.

I'm contemplating Broadwell-E, excited for release now.
 
r7slayer said:
If zen is as good as AMD are making out by saying it has atleast 40% better IPC performance than thier previous cpus then they could be good. Depends how they overclock and what price they come in at.

They have potential but AMD are known for talking a big game then under delivering on the day.
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ya - I was looking forward to bulldozer forever ... and I listened to all their marketing guys talk it up like crazy (forgot their names). Was all BS ...

Now Im not going to believe anything AMD says about their stuff until I see many reviews.

I suppose they did the only thing they thought they could do with all that research into a product that sucked ... lied and tried to sell something that was subpar ... but it was the wrong move for the future.

anyways ... Id like to upgrade my 2700k also - skylakes e sounds interesting ...
 
I think I'll be going for one of these, about to start messing around in VM's for work and this extra juice will come in handy, just wish they'd release already!
 
Another here thinking about it... though I'm trying to decide whether to wait or just go for a Haswell-E (I'm only going to get the lowest spec one). Based on the above though I may just go for it now; doesn't seem like the low-spec Broadwell-E will offer all that much (plus in theory it would still leave me with a possible upgrade path to an 8 core or something if I desperately want to in the future)
 
Being able to get an 8core for £300 would be something worth waiting for. BDW-E doesn't seem to actually offer anything over the current 5820K. Pretty depressing being an enthusiast these days.
 
Orangey said:
Being able to get an 8core for £300 would be something worth waiting for. BDW-E doesn't seem to actually offer anything over the current 5820K. Pretty depressing being an enthusiast these days.
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Fanatic said:
Anyone reckon £600 for the 8 core is possible?
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Not going to happen guys Haswell-E consists of three CPU's - two hex one oct Core

Broadwell-E consists of four cpu's - two hex, one oct core and one 10/deca core core.

All the indication are that the 'new' 10 core CPU will come in at a price well above current $ pricing for the oct core 5960x which sells for $999 in bulk

http://ark.intel.com/products/82930...ssor-Extreme-Edition-20M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

The ten core Broadwell-E is likely to cost somewhere up to $1500 on release so the 'lower' two six core processors and eight core CPU's will have to cost a similar amount (in dollars) to the 5820k, 5930k and 5960X respectively.

To make things worse the £/$ rate is pretty bad at the moment so UK prices could be something like £350, £500, £900 and around £1250 when you include VAT for the ten core!!

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/matthew-wilson/intel-to-release-broadwell-e-processors-in-q2/
 
Have a RIVE with a 3930 @ 5GHz, one of the best set ups I've had for longevity but will be looking at what the newer CPU's/chipsets have to offer then make a decision as looking at new GPU's as well when NV/AMD sort themselves out :)
 
shamus21 said:
I have never see intel price any CPU cheep.
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They don't need to, even their critics (staunch AMD supporters) on this forum are currently using their processors.

AMD sell their products comparatively cheaply because that's what they're worth when compared to competitor offerings, there was a time when AMD had a market when charging £800 for Athlon FX chips but that time has long since passed.
 
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