RPGWiZaRD
[H]ard|Gawd
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That Z390 is around the corner is the sorta news you hate seeing when you got your Z370 motherboard and ram sitting ready but still waiting for CPU to be shipped with "unknown date".
If only they at least allowed the 8 core CPU upgrade this time, well competition has gotten harder so there's some slim chances due that but it's Intel so I won't hold my breath.
If you look at it this way though, bad launch availability for Coffee Lake and Z390 possibly launching fairly soon after Z370, AMD's success on gaining grounds again with Ryzer and Threadripper and still longass backwards compatibility and Intel's not overly huge chipset changes makes you wonder how hard of a slap does Intel have to recieve to really wake up to listen to customer feedback. Money still talks (cough motherboard manufacturers holding Intel's hand) too tightly I suppose. I just hope Intel doesn't pull a Nokia on this one and wakes up sooner than later.
If only they at least allowed the 8 core CPU upgrade this time, well competition has gotten harder so there's some slim chances due that but it's Intel so I won't hold my breath.
If you look at it this way though, bad launch availability for Coffee Lake and Z390 possibly launching fairly soon after Z370, AMD's success on gaining grounds again with Ryzer and Threadripper and still longass backwards compatibility and Intel's not overly huge chipset changes makes you wonder how hard of a slap does Intel have to recieve to really wake up to listen to customer feedback. Money still talks (cough motherboard manufacturers holding Intel's hand) too tightly I suppose. I just hope Intel doesn't pull a Nokia on this one and wakes up sooner than later.
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