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X99 Price

Dave2150 said:
To quote myself:

"The latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, puts a decent load on all 8 of my logical cores on my I7 920. Many other users confirmed this also, a huge engine update "

Another user backed me up and confirmed it even, a few posts beneath my own...
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Hopefully that update will roll it's way into SC2.

Is there any other PC games that can utilise up to 8 cores?
 
Read on another forum that a Dutch retailer has leaked prices for the Haswell-E CPUs;

5820K - €376 ~ £299
5830K - €562 ~ £447
5960X - €999 ~ £795

Probably already been discussed, but meh, it's a chore trawling through a lot of these posts.
 
I've been in the threads Andy has posted in but never said anything about it, but now I will.

He gave the facts about X99, being a old Xeon chip sold new etc, fair enough, can't complain at that, I wouldn't have known otherwise, so cheers for pointing that out, Andy, even though it won't change my decision on whether to buy 1 or not.

Gave his opinion of Intel ripping us off. Can't complain at that either, only disagree.

Only fault I can find is hammering the point, strongly, when people quoted him to disagree. Which happened a lot :p turning him into a troll/spammer as people have opinionated as he defended himself or his point.
 
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Random Guy Esq. said:
Read on another forum that a Dutch retailer has leaked prices for the Haswell-E CPUs;

5820K - €376 ~ £299
5830K - €562 ~ £447
5960X - €999 ~ £795

Probably already been discussed, but meh, it's a chore trawling through a lot of these posts.
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Nice, seems to reconfirm that the 5820K will be around the £300 mark.
 
While andys way of wording things may not be the best i can kinda seen some of his thoughts.

x99 will be x99 ridiculously fast expensive bleeding edge with a few kinks to start with. Will 90% of users see any great performace difference everyday over say a z97 platform at around half the price, no probably not, but does that make the x99 platform less awesome no just maybe speaks volumes for the value for money of the z97 system.

I wont be buying an x99 box but thats purely because my z77 still feels fast doing most things. Doesnt mean i wont drool over the build logs of those that do though.
 
Grown men bickering about overpriced toys xD

The 5820k price seems decent for a hex-core, and that white Asus motherboard that was teased looks amazing. I'll probably wait until the nVidia 8XX series to see if I go all-in on a big upgrade. Also it gives a chance for the DDR4 prices to calm down and the initial bugs to get ironed out.
 
ALXAndy said:
I tell you what I'll hold my hands up and say this. If Intel bring a hex core to 1150 at the price the 5820k comes in at then it will pretty much all be over. Well, either that or release a more mid ranged sensible socket with a hex core in it that people can actually afford.

Harping on about how amazing and cheap the 5820k is seems to me to be a bit of an oxymoron because people are not factoring in the high costs of the board and ram it needs. No doubt it will also need a top of the range cooler, and those are just shy of a ton.
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i dont think the cost difference is so much
there will no doubt be a couple of cheaper boards
memory, aslong as you were planning to go 16gb then there will be kits around same price soon enough

maybe at launch there's a premium like anything but unless people were planning a 8gb build with a cheap sub 100 board then the price difference is very small for 2 extra cores and ddr4

it all depends if you were on a budget in the 1st place

IF it clocks good i can see a lot going 2011 next year when the prices settle
 
I hope to be getting the 5930k, should give me a massive jump in performance from my 2600k. I will be waiting until the dust settles though, sometime in the new year.
 
Guys, keep it civil please.
XLXAndy; if you have no interest in X99 then quit derailing a threads about it.
 
I'd be surprised if it was much more than when X79 came out. I paid:

£432 for a 3930K
£262 for an ASUS X79 Sabertooth

The memory is where it changes though, i paid £102 for 16Gb of Samsung Green. Going to be spending double that this time round.
 
Rossi~ said:
I'd be surprised if it was much more than when X79 came out. I paid:

£432 for a 3930K
£262 for an ASUS X79 Sabertooth

The memory is where it changes though, i paid £102 for 16Gb of Samsung Green. Going to be spending double that this time round.
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That 3930K proved to be an awesome chip with massive longevity, still kicking ass today. Think X99 will be the same, the extra IPC, DDR4 and support for 14nm later will prove it a long lasting setup just like X79 has been.
 
Mei said:
i dont think the cost difference is so much
there will no doubt be a couple of cheaper boards
memory, aslong as you were planning to go 16gb then there will be kits around same price soon enough

maybe at launch there's a premium like anything but unless people were planning a 8gb build with a cheap sub 100 board then the price difference is very small for 2 extra cores and ddr4

it all depends if you were on a budget in the 1st place

IF it clocks good i can see a lot going 2011 next year when the prices settle
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Care to share your findings? I think a new 1150 4790K/board/ram is about £400. X99 my guess will cost: £300 mb/£300 CPU/£300 Ram ish
 
Mei said:
i dont think the cost difference is so much
there will no doubt be a couple of cheaper boards
memory, aslong as you were planning to go 16gb then there will be kits around same price soon enough

maybe at launch there's a premium like anything but unless people were planning a 8gb build with a cheap sub 100 board then the price difference is very small for 2 extra cores and ddr4

it all depends if you were on a budget in the 1st place

IF it clocks good i can see a lot going 2011 next year when the prices settle
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The price is high no doubt, because you're buying the top-end gear. Intel's high-end platform has always been expensive, and it's always carried a heavy premium over the 'gaming' platform (i.e 1150).

The only thing that's changed is I'm an adult now with a job, so I can afford to spend more money on my hobbies than before. Do you pay over the odds in terms of price/performance to have the new hotness when it comes out? Of course! But we're hardware enthusiasts that love technology. It's not just about 'can I play this game?'.
 
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I thought it was only the GPU section that got this angry over new components.

I hope the prices come in around the same X79 did. I don't really need to upgrade but if the price is right I think I just might.
 
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