What a hilariously impressive absolutely fruitless and completely pointless argument we've spent the last x amount of days on. Thanks Juan. Hopefully later revision/steppings from whatever the hell the OP chip is gets us higher clocks. Whoop de doo.
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What do you guys think about Jayztwocents predicting a price slide after launch giving us the 3900x for $379-400 between back to school sales and christmas and the 3950x for $499 by christmas time? I'm torn between holding on to my 4790k for a few more months and waiting for reviews, steppings, sales OR the value of my 4790k dipping hard and nullifying the effect of any future sales.... At launch it'll be a 3800x tops for me, but if he's right about $400 or less 3900x then I could do that in a couple months...
No chance in hell of those prices hitting before Christmas, unless Intel drops their prices by like 30+% across the board or these bomb super hard. There is no way they will knock $250 off the 3950x or $100 off the 3900x. If they do a sale like that I could see, at most, $20-$30 cheaper.