Broadwell-E

[RujoKinJal]

Has anyone seen these yet?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/broadwell-e-arrives-testing-intels-10-core-1700-desktop-cpu/

 

[Intel_man]

Yes. Hexus has a review on the 6950X and it's freaking amazing in multithread applications.

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/93017-intel-core-i7-6950x-14nm-broadwell/

 

[RujoKinJal]

I like it

 

[johnb35]

But who will spend $1700 USD on a cpu? Hell, I have a hard time spending more than $300 on a cpu.

 

[Intel_man]

I think I dropped $300 on my i7 920 6 years ago... but yeah... Extreme processors are just... extremely priced.

 

[beers]

$1700 is fuggin crazy.

 

[Intel_man]

It is indeed crazy... but it's also fuggin fast as fuuuuugggg..

 

[beers]

It is indeed crazy... but it's also fuggin fast as fuuuuugggg..

You could get 2x 10c Xeons for around that..

 

[Intel_man]

It'll be interesting to see the Xeon equivalent version of it though whenever that comes out.

http://ark.intel.com/products/94456...ssor-Extreme-Edition-25M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

 

[RujoKinJal]

I thought this was the workstation equivalent?

 

[Intel_man]

No, this is being released as the consumer available Core i7 branding. There will be a Xeon equivalent with ECC memory support.

 

[RujoKinJal]

No, this is being released as the consumer available Core i7 branding. There will be a Xeon equivalent with ECC memory support.

Well that is exciting

 

[Intel_man]

If by exciting you mean expensive... yes... it will be exciting.

 

[Laquer Head]

If by exciting you mean expensive... yes... it will be exciting.

i'm not that excited..

 

[Intel_man]

i'm not that excited..

If you had a X99 mobo, you'll be excited in about 4 years time when the xeon versions of these things get retired from server racks and you can buy them for like $200.

 

[Laquer Head]

If you had a X99 mobo, you'll be excited in about 4 years time when the xeon versions of these things get retired from server racks and you can buy them for like $200.

you make a strange yet compelling argument

 

[RujoKinJal]

you make a strange yet compelling argument

Funny how that happens... EVERYDAY

 

[Intel_man]

you make a strange yet compelling argument

It's all about long term planning.

The idea is to spend more now, but spend less within a 10 year span. Then you'll get to say, "who's the winner now?"