you ain't seen nothin' yet

those pricecuts are missleading, i onlt see a $10-20 pricecut overall per CPU if that!  Im going with AMD CPU and GPU my upcoming build, Intel has sat on their hands far too long, and Nvidia pushing drivers down ur throat can kiss my butt... 

Why does it have to be microcenter? I wish other places, like Amazon and newegg would cut prices since I am over an hour from the closest microcenter.

Consumers stands to WIN
 
if there is competition that pushes, prices Down & performance Up
 
 

Intel has been bleeding jobs - layoffs
the loss of the HPC and server market is the biggest loss
the only thing they have is Business  computers and consumer market and they have a tough slug with AMD now
Intel wants to focus on HPC but i don't think they can win that fight yet
 
and they have no way to fight low power ARM servers
 
then need to refocus their R&D and bring out new materials and tech now

Xavier Zepherious
Price Cuts By Retailers Prior To AMD Ryzen Launch – Core i7 7700K Up For $299, Core i5 7600K For $199, Core i5 6600K For $179

Intel Kaby Lake, Skylake and Haswell Processors Get Massive Price Cuts By Retailers – Team Blue Beginning To Feel The Imminent Threat of AMD Ryzen Processors

Are We Looking at a Serious Price War Between Intel and AMD in 2017?

 

• Intel Core i7-6950X ($1599 US) – $300 Price Cut
• Intel Core i7-6900K ($999 US) – $200 Price Cut
• Intel Core i7-6850K ($549 US) – $150 Price Cut
• Intel Core i7-6800K ($359 US) – $140 Price Cut
• Intel Core i7-5820K ($319 US) – $100 Price Cut

 
 
http://wccftech.com/intel...-war-ryzen-processors/
 
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really??? if ryzen 8 core is that good then Intel has to do better than that

Microcenter has been selling the 6950X, 6900k, 6850k, etc at those prices for awhile. Well before Ryzen prices were released. Those prices are all close to the average price they have been selling.

Scarlet-Tech
I wouldnt call these massive price cuts. At best, they would be nominal, or the 6950x would have cost what a 5960x originally did. And a 6900k should have been cut to 600.

I agree. Bit of an overstatement here.

That's funny... I was in Microcenter with a buddy just a month ago. I thought it was weird the i7 4790K got kicked up to $299 for a short while... Looks like it's back down to $279. I scored mine when it was $249. I have seen a lot of companies raise prices and offer the customers discounts so they feel like they got a deal... These prices are exactly the same as what they were a few months ago.

knightsilver
those pricecuts are missleading, i onlt see a $10-20 pricecut overall per CPU if that!  Im going with AMD CPU and GPU my upcoming build, Intel has sat on their hands far too long, and Nvidia pushing drivers down ur throat can kiss my butt... 

Exactly that will do many people and because of that AMD have chance to sell even more GPU now then ever, thanks to good CPU.
Special in bundles. Only if manufacturers of motherboards launch nice stuff. For now I only saw Crosshair 6 Hero, but that's higher class but not premium motherboard, it's ATX, Probably will ASUS to launch Crosshair 6 Extreme and Formula and Gene or Strix when AMD launch processors.  
Many customers will buy RX 480 CF and install waterblock. I think that could be done for price of GTX1080 or little more.
Reference RX 480 is less than 200$ + 100 for waterblock x 2.
Or to wait Vega. 2017 will be year of recover for AMD. And not only 2017, their future now look completely different.
From other side we could not expect answer from Intel with Kaby Lake successor, maybe even not Skylake-Xtreme but that will be interesting to see, battle in 2017 between Skylake Xtreme 6-8 core vs AMD 6-8 cores.
Only with them Intel could be competitive with AMD. 
If he plan to continue to ask similar or little lower price for mainstream, all of their customers will escape on AMD 1700 and 1700X.
It'r terrible how much people paid for i7-7700K + some nice ROG motherboard, Formula or Code, or Apex, about Xtreme don't even to talk.
Whole Z270 will be in shadow of AMD now because only 4 cores and huge price.
No any more single reason why someone to buy that before Z270 motherboard not drop on half and processors on half.
Huge overprice, special now when for same money they could build 1800X and some mid range mobo and 16GB of RAM.
 

I only could say I'm very happy because I didn't spend money on Broadwell-E.
I payed Haswell-E before 2.5 years 280 euro and that is not disaster, serve me well and he will serve me until Intel launch something better probably. 
But I looked with a lot of attention to find cheaper some Broadwell-E.
I mean... all of us are aware that Intel keep monopoly and don't want to launch better processor with real improvement and drain money for miserable difference. All of us were aware of that, but than in one moment that become obvious because one competitors generation mop the floor with few generations from once. That was happen with Ryzen.  
And now that is not only story and mit, now that's reality, and because of such Intel's politic 4-5 years people payed more for weaker product.
Everything was finished before few months, after first results, but until then many people didn't believe that results are real and invest in Broadwell-E. 
 
i7-7740K and 7640K can't change NOTHING. What Intel will constantly to repeat single threaded performance and what....
AMD offer almost i7-6950X for same power consumption as i7-7700K, for 1/4 of price and 2 cores less, Kaby Lake is drained completely,
almost no space for OC, what can they drain more.
To work on 80C on Turbo just to be faster in single threaded application than AMD?
Intel will still offer much lower performance multi threaded application.
I mean AMDs 95W CPU 8 cores / 16 T reach Cinebench World Record over i7-6950X and he is 140W 10 cores.
Intel could pack everything what they done in one box and say to public One Era is finished, now we start from scratch and to start development of new architecture or to replace AMD and offer processors for half of their price. Because no one from Intel fans will pay more, same or less than AMD for weaker Intel. 
Only customers who chase budget option could choose Intel but for that he need to completely replace AMD with prices, same as AMD offer much cheaper Bulldozer and Vishera.
 
Only chance to do something is to launch Broadwell-E revision, there he have space to offer better model, but only until 1900X.
But Intel will rather to sell 10 processors more than to launch new Broadwell-E with 6 and 8 cores for 350 and 550$ better than AMD compatible with X99. That's funny decision, I would stop them to even try to do something with Kaby Lake because story is over, no one will pay over 150$ for 4 core any more, AMD or Intel.
Because AMD have two models with 6 cores / 12 threads and 16MB of Cache for 230$ and 260$ and customers could overclock cheaper models to work on same performance as more expensive, only clock is different, no other difference as with Intel. 300$ more for 12 PCI-E lanes and 100MHz higher clock. 
 
Look why only crazy man could launch Kaby Lake revision...as director I would stop that even if I need to burn track with processors. 
No one will pay even attention on them. Because for 350$ you can beat i7-6950X on Turbo clock.
 

 
 
Like always I'm very happy when decision of someone to calculate turn against them in worse moment.
Dear god, 1400$ in toilet. How many time pass, 8-9 months?
Whole new PC from 1800X, ROG mobo, 32GB memory and RX 480 CF reference... exactly 1450$.
I still support Intel, and I simple have no confidence to buy AMD because I only wait when someone will say performance are not real or something similar. I swear... I only wait when something will destroy whole story... AMD learn us, with him you are never sure.
 

1. "Massive" price cuts may be a strong word, but if you're one of those folks that got used to Intel's pricing and/or didn't think AMD would have an impact on Intel, then whatever is happening could be big to you; hence dramatic words.
2. Retailers can and will drop prices, it doesn't mean Intel's MSRP has changed.  All Broadwell-E SKUs still have the same MSRP.  I think most likely now that Intel will not drop Broadwell-E MSRP in response to Ryzen, rather they will let it go in favor of making Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X look good.
3. Intel still maintains majority share and this is from OEM contract sales, not DIY or enthusiast sales.  AMD's more affordable processors are several quarters out, that's bread and butter.  It will be at least a year before we see AMD's market share going up; not fail on their part rather on ours: Many of us don't have an idea of how big the computer hardware market actually is.

Xavier Zepherious
then you get this news or rumor
 
Rumor: Intel Could Commercialize A 12 Core/ 24 Thread Skylake-X CPU To Fight Ryzen – Reports Italian Publication

Intel is allegedly working on commercializing a 12 Core/24 Thread Skylake-X processor

Since the source has marked this post as rumor, I would recommend taking this one with a grain of salt. That said, this wouldn’t be something that is unusual or even something that we would not expect Intel to do. Intel has lost the core for core advantage that it has held in the past, and the answer to that might be to scale up its core count. Here is where things get very interesting though.
Assuming Intel is actually preparing a 12 core variant to include in the Skylake-X lineup then that means that you are actually looking at a lineup shakeup. instead of the 6, 8 core high end parts, we will be looking at 6, 8, 10 and 12 core parts.
 
http://wccftech.com/intel...-thread-skylake-x-cpu/

Basically "throw more cores at it, that will fix it.." intel has lost if that is all they can do.

I predict Ryzen IPC is going to be about 85% of Skylake based on a consensus of leaked benches.

Well intel has been increasing the core count on enthusiast chips since haswell-E. So a 12 core part would not be surprising.

This is big slap in face to us Intel fans... But it's god for market.
Yesterday I couldn't afford i7-6950X performance, now I can, 350$ overclocked 1700X is similar.
But I would go on 1800X just to be sure...
Because now for 500$ I will get i7-6950X, in previous months I desperately searched i7-6900K without warranty or ES for 500$ and couldn't find. I was very sad because of that and upgrade on i7-6800K didn't have sense at all.
 
Intel do nothing last 5 years. We pass through transition from DDR3 to DDR4 with Zero CPU performance improvements, that disgusting.
Scenario was always same, first they prepare us for low performance with explanation that no more space for improvements, than starting bombing from motherboard brands, 100 models, MSI, ASUS, GIGABYTE... 300-400-500-600$, RGB LED, Aura, Monoblocks, and people completely forgot on processors, they only look main specification and invest in CPU just to have platform together, they invest in CPU because than motherboard could work, and we can enjoy in them...not opposite. Than revies start to compare i7-7700K on 4.5GHz vs i7-6700K on 4.2GHz... 5% improvment... WOW... Games comparison 185fps vs 176 fps WAU reason for upgrade, because GPU will be bottlenecked.  Is it i7-6700K bottleneck for GTX1080... Maybe is not completely, but it's better with Kaby Lake....5 years same story.
 
Now time for something new. 
People could find smallest PC case, with some SFX 500-600W PSU and to build inside i7-6950X-GTX1080 performance for 1000$, with 1800X and RX 480 CF, and they have money for AIO CPU Cooler.