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I would hold off building anything right now unless you really can't wait. See how good AMD new CPU will be, also intel will be releasing coffeelake CPU's 2H of 2017.
Yes that's good proposition.
Intel X99 is almost 3 years old, Z170 and Z270 have only 4 cores and that's very very bad.
I don't expect bigger improvement for Intel before Skylake Xtreme.
Skylake Xtreme could be cheaper but up to 50% stronger than Broadwell-EX.
But I think whole Intel process is in danger if rumors about AMD performance are true.
AMD will have a lot of space for improvements, with R7 1900X later, I expect him very soon, some premium black edition model of R7.
Intel x86 is end. After 10 years of domination. Last 3 years we didn't had a lot of improvements and maybe is good if anyone who need upgrade and think about upgrade wait little.
Even owners of DDR3 platforms, if they have Haswell than Kaby Lake will not give them special CPU performance improvements.
Only USB 3.1 Gen 2, M.2 NVMe and DDR4.... Off course I forgot biggest improvement RGB LED, new Aura headers, LED strip, madness-circus on table.
Some rumors say Intel Skylake Xtreme is biggest change after Nehalem.
That's good, if not maybe they will not be able to change domination of AMD.
Anyway X99 was right decision but now we should wait little, it would be bad if Ryzen 5 destroy Broadwell-EX 6 cores for 250$ and Ryzen 7 destroy Intel Broadwell-EX 8 cores for 500$.
Both for half price... Than investment of almost 400$ in i7-7700K willl look as disaster. He will not be able to reach Ryzen 5 in multi applications even overclocked.
Same as price of processor and price of motherboards will need to go down for at least 50-200$ depend on model.
Maximus 9 Extreme value will be reduced serious than. Rampage V Exteme Black will stay higher because capability to hold Xeons with many cores and i7-6950X but should drop as well.
If AMD R7 beat Broadwell-EX I will need to find i7-6900K some nice value.
He will estimate life of my platform seriously. Some people would say sell now immediately platform and by R7 + Crosshair 6.
But I would like to stay with Intel I still have hope for X99 platform.
Why to change on AMD when only CPU replacement on same chipset put me on same level with AMD's premium model or even stronger, depend how much I want to pay for CPU.
Because of that X99 was better decision and I never suspect even when Skylake was priority. Maybe price will drop and more used i7-6900K become available on market.
I even think that Intel will produce more i7-6950X and i7-6900K with much lower price. For 400$ and 700$ they could sell 100.000 Processors easy, only 8 and 10 cores.
Improvement after overclocking 40%.
post edited by Vlada011 - 2017/02/19 14:54:35