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From DigitalTrends:
An interesting note was at the end of the article mentioning a high-end board from MSI showcased at this year's Computex. This X99 motherboard is going to cost $999 when released.
Hopefully, mid-range X99 boards will be significantly cheaper.
With Haswell-E, Intel will retire 4-core configurations, and offer buyers a choice of 6- and 8-core processors with up to 20MB of L3 cache, as well as hyper threading via up to 16 logical cores, for up to 16 threads. Intel is claiming increased performance by as much as 33 to 50 percent.
- 14 USB ports (6 USB 3.0, 8 USB 2.0)
- 10 SATA 3.0 ports (6Gbps)
- Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC via Clarksville PHY
- 8 PCIe Gen2 at 5 gigatransfers per second
- Integrated Clock support for HEDT
- Inter Rapid Storage Technology (RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10)
- Processor and memory overclocking
An interesting note was at the end of the article mentioning a high-end board from MSI showcased at this year's Computex. This X99 motherboard is going to cost $999 when released.
So, early adopters looking for a new high-end enthusiast board, are likely going to be spending quite a lot for the first X99 boards coming out in September. This plus the likely high price of the first DDR4 RAM, I would not be surprised a Haswell-E based system to cost at least two times more than SVB-E and IVB-E on X79 before it.MSI, for instance, will release a Haswell-E motherboard featuring the high-performance Core i7-5960X CPU with eight cores and 16 threads. It will come at a rather steep $999 US price tag, though, which will make for some rather expensive PCs.
Hopefully, mid-range X99 boards will be significantly cheaper.