Who think we should upgrade on ASUS Crosshair Extreme or Gene and 1800X when become available or Hero now???
Second option, waiting, will lead us in same direction only later.
When Intel failed to add same performance as AMD per watt and with same number of cores and similar price than Ryzen price could go up 25%.
Because than whole LGA 2066 will not be able to match with AMD except with 10 core models and he not exist for 99.8% of market.
Price, power consumption after OC, smaller single threded performance, temperature and money need for cooling... everything is only for people who don't know for difference between 100 and 1000$. And they are not market.
Market is up to 200$ and up to 350$ and enthusiasts who are maybe ready to pay 500$, maybe but than they want 1800X who keep world record not
i7-6800K with 12 more PCI-E lanes and 200MHz higher clock. In Europe I see Ryzen 7 1800X for 540euro... Intel i7-6850K was over 600 euro.
But waiting Skylake-E is maybe good not because Intel X299. Maybe in mean time before Skylake Xtreme AMD start to worry for their processors and launch Ryzen with little higher power consumption... He could beat easy i7-6950X... Because R7 power consumtpion is competition to Kaby Lake not Broadwell-E. And maybe who wait X299 upgrade later on some 1900X...or 2000X model, AMD's Xtreme.
I think 2066 is over and could offer up to 20% more performance than planned and Intel could catch AMD only with next socket. Maybe he will need less time for him than normal and maybe hurry up, but they gave 15% improvement for 5 years, How they could give 50% for 5 months that's big question.
No one is happy to read about Intel 10 cores stronger than AMD 1800X.
This is my Cinebench R15 score, i7-5820K 4.2/GHz-4.0GHz Cache it's miserable compare to 1800X but it's better than i7-6850K out of box...
And only show what Intel done. Price of my CPU in store was 350$, I paid far less but real price. i7-6850K cost 600$ and it's 12-13 months newer, they give same performance, pardon mine overclocked is better than i7-6850K default. Only is example what Intel done to us...
How I could upgrade i7-5820K to i7-6850K when they are similar.
From other side upgrade from i7-5820K to 1800X will be far bigger improvement than i7-3770K to i7-5820K.
Intel should be faced with completely losing interest for their processors from enthusiasts.
Because they will faced with that from companies who build configuration and sell finished computer with monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything...
They will use only AMD in all segments and offer to customers for much cheaper price than Z270 and X99. Even if price is same X370 will be better option.
Because of that AMD could be out of stock little longer.
Now even overclockers will use AMD Ryzen 7 for their test of different graphic cards, because have better single threded performance than Intel Broadwell-E.
With Intel we had really bad and expensive situation, from one side need for more cores than 4, and from other better performance per core of Z270 platform.
And customers couldn't decide, both directions were expensive, very expensive, Z platform with locked Non K models for overclocking and same as all Z platforms had cheap paste and because of that they are hotter.
post edited by Vlada011 - 2017/03/07 06:11:43