Intel 10-Core Skylake-X Core i9 7900X: 4GHz Base Clock, 4.5GHz Turbo Boost

mat9v said:
With clocks as those they will not have to worry about Ryzen/Threadripper for gamers (no way for Ryzen to come even close). Other folks... they will have to care a bit, after all rendering and such tasks are easier to multithread and 16 core Threadripper will beat 10 core cpu even with 500-700Mhz difference (assuming Threadripper will reach clocks similar to Ryzen). All that taken into consideration, if they were even a bit scared for 6950 performance vs AMD it's price would have been cut already. My crystal ball says around 2000$ for the 10 thread and 2400$ for 12 threads taking into account higher clocks.
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The 6950x is a year old now so I don't think price cutting it would matter. Intel caught a lot of heat over the pricing of the 6950x and the prices you're stating here I think would be handing business over to AMD. Maybe you're right but I think Intel would like to get a better reception this time from their HEDT lineup and I just don't see how they break the pricing of the 6950x even with 12 cores without handing AMD business.
 
mat9v said:
With clocks as those they will not have to worry about Ryzen/Threadripper for gamers (no way for Ryzen to come even close). Other folks... they will have to care a bit, after all rendering and such tasks are easier to multithread and 16 core Threadripper will beat 10 core cpu even with 500-700Mhz difference (assuming Threadripper will reach clocks similar to Ryzen). All that taken into consideration, if they were even a bit scared for 6950 performance vs AMD it's price would have been cut already. My crystal ball says around 2000$ for the 10 thread and 2400$ for 12 threads taking into account higher clocks.
Frankly the worst thing is again changed socket (this time 2066 pins) so bye bye old motherboards. Well, there will be some sweet deals on aftermarket :)
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2400 for 12 threads!? Ouch. I only have the 5960x because I got it super cheap and I definitely don't utilize it's full power.
 
heatlesssun said:
The 6950x is a year old now so I don't think price cutting it would matter. Intel caught a lot of heat over the pricing of the 6950x and the prices you're stating here I think would be handing business over to AMD. Maybe you're right but I think Intel would like to get a better reception this time from their HEDT lineup and I just don't see how they break the pricing of the 6950x even with 12 cores without handing AMD business.
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I don't think Intel likes price reducing anyways? I do think they need to be price competitive or it's a tossup.
 
I can only imagine its going to cost a fortune. I have a 5960X that I'm about to install (along with a Rampage V Edition 10 board; I'm hoping I'll be able to eclipse 4.0ghz or higher with a solid OC), and when I saw the Intel HEDP Broadwell-E offerings I wasn't too tempted to upgrade - after all the 8-core 6900K was around the same $1000 that my 5960X had been previously, and the 10-core 6950X jumped up to $1650! While I am glad to see emphasis on the HEDP, I'm yet to wonder if prices are going to come down or if its going to be another $1500+ 10-core chip; at least the additional clock speed is nice, but it seems its a higher TDP than the Haswell-E/Broadwell-E chips at 175w compared to the older models 140w. I'm trying not to be too tempted until the Intel HEDP brings forth an "i9" with 12 physical cores, but I am glad to see the platform moving forward - I just hope Intel realizes AMD provides some competition and rolls back prices at aleast a little.
 
Personally I already set my price target for a new CPU. I want this 10c/20t intel chip, but I am only willing to spend $1k on it. Any higher and I am 100% going with AMD. No CPU is worth more than $1k to me even with a 5 year min life expectancy. So I agree with heatlesssun on this one. If Intel tries to price these at the $2k range they might as well not even make them cause they will just send most of the potential customers to AMD (IMO anyway).
 
i hope some prices go down on intels side but i wouldn't be surprised if this is priced around the same 1700$ tag as the 6950x since the 12 core is still to come also.I have gone with x99 and will stick with either a 5820k or 6800k while i watch what happens with the x299 platform.
 
DigitalGriffin said:
How the @#%@# do you cool 175Watts TDP? I don't even think some of the big 280mm water coolers out there can handle this much heat.
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Very easily. A 120mm cooler was all AMD required to cool the 250w Fury X. 280mm would be plenty, plus overclock headrooom.

Most dual-fan tower coolers could handle that easily as-well. Nothing particularly exotic.
 
doz said:
Does anyone need an affordable street car that runs 12 seconds 1/4s from the factory?
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More specifically, do we need to buy a new affordable street car that will do the 1/4 mile in 0.4 seconds quicker than the one we have now. When you already own a car that will do 175 miles an hour, you don't buy a faster one because you need it. You buy it because you WANT it. Same with a new proc. Sandy has really long legs; but she's no longer the prettiest chip in the pageant.
 
dgingeri said:
They'll probably be charging $1500 for it. They could triple their profits for the entire line if they sold this one for $800 and adjusted all the others accordingly, simply because they'd sell more, but they wouldn't listen to that. Their monopoly just screws us all over.
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They don't probably make much money off this extreme a market. Even if they lowered prices.

Enterprise. Corporate and general consumer will always be a better bet for profit then us extreme people.

We aren't a significant percentage of the market and honestly I don't mind. Given that I pay thousands for camera toys but in reality I use my computer more than my camera equipment it's pretty easy to justify the price. And now with ryzen out I like having alternatives. Doesn't mean I want Intel to lower prices though cause their used stuff is still incredible in performance and price.
 
I’m expecting Intel will remain bullish and mostly retain the same pricing structure for Skylake-X. For me, that would put the upcoming 12-core flagship Skylake-X CPU at around the $1,500 mark, with their deca-core chip coming in at $1,000, and the eight and six-core versions hitting $600 and $400 respectively.​

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-core-i9-skylake-x-specs

Still just speculation.
 
Egad, I ordered a new E5 v4 Broadwell system a week ago. I guess I should go pound my uninformed head on the piano now. :(
 
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