Intel's next-gen Core i7-6950X pre-orders hit $2349 at NCIX

[Simon Belmont]

That's just insane.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/51776...-i7-6950x-pre-orders-hit-2349-ncix/index.html

 

[jigger]

Probably just a con to get some publicity and milk the people that have been told to wait for Broardwell-E, cos Broadwell-E will destroy all. And a price drop would seem to take some of the sting out of the disappointing performance.

 

[Akagi]

These prices are not official and are inflated for pre-orders, with the normal pricing set to be somewhere around $1609, $1024, $602, and $422 for the Core i7-6950X, Core i7-6900K, Core i7-6850K and Core i7-6800K respectively.

 

[joeyjojo]

Seems about right, in line with the list price of the E5-2697 v2s I use day to day. $1609 also looks about right considering they're single-CPU.

Still way outside the realms of realistic for personal users though.

 

[Akagi]

Speak for yourself, I've ordered 27 and I'm going to arrange them in a collage.

 

[Dave2150]

Still way outside the realms of realistic for personal users though.

Well these have no use for regular gamers - I7 quad cores still reign supreme.

For content creaters etc these will be great though.

 

[darkwildchild79]

wow, i bet they make VR, Superb Real ....still keeping my dinosaur system for another couple of years, just need a new graphic and i would be set??