RPGWiZaRD
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$359~379 there abouts for Intel 8700K is almost a given in comparison to 7800X 6C/12T @ $389 and taking into account Intel's history of release pricing of its x700K SKU for the last generations as well as being part of the performance/desktop segment. I'm personally highly suprised if it's much different than that.
Coffee Lake will be the trumpf card for the typical not so rich PC gamer/casual computer enthusiast in terms of bang-for-buck, would be stupid to price it too high now and hamper its right now what should become their easiest selling CPU now that AMD has stepped up, I don't expect X299 to get that high adoption and a lot of Haswell, Ivy or older etc users are either considering or have picked a Ryzen build, Coffee Lake will offer a natural upgrade path for them on the Intel side that's not silly priced or rushed with compromises like X299 platform but also offer "decent" threaded performance from 6C/12T. Looking at where threaded useability is good as of today, it's roughly 6~8 cores maximum, beyond that it will be rather specific/limited useage cases for majority of people.
Coffee Lake will be the trumpf card for the typical not so rich PC gamer/casual computer enthusiast in terms of bang-for-buck, would be stupid to price it too high now and hamper its right now what should become their easiest selling CPU now that AMD has stepped up, I don't expect X299 to get that high adoption and a lot of Haswell, Ivy or older etc users are either considering or have picked a Ryzen build, Coffee Lake will offer a natural upgrade path for them on the Intel side that's not silly priced or rushed with compromises like X299 platform but also offer "decent" threaded performance from 6C/12T. Looking at where threaded useability is good as of today, it's roughly 6~8 cores maximum, beyond that it will be rather specific/limited useage cases for majority of people.
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