Glad i don't need that many cores.  I will stick with mainstream over Enthusiast.
 
$1700 for just the CPU, you know how many mainstream mobo+cpu that would buy.

 
That pretty much tells me all I need to know. I'll be staying on my 5960x.

Sajin


 
That pretty much tells me all I need to know. I'll be staying on my 5960x.

+1, I definitely agree.

seyumi
Wells guys it's safe to say this generation is a dud when it comes to gamers. Several review sites and even Mr. Silicon Lottery himself are all showing 4.1ghz~4.3Ghz max 24/7 stable overclocks and they hit a overclocking wall and/or thermal wall before going any further. I have a Silicon Lottery 5960x clocked @ 4.7ghz and the new $1700 6950x or $1050 6900k won't be able to touch it gaming wise.

The good news is that I'm going to put it on Fleabay tonight if anyone is interested in having the best gaming CPU for the next year or two. I paid $1450 for it. I'm downgrading to a Z170 setup since I already sold 3 of my 4 Titan X's (thank god RIGHT before the GTX 1080/1070 announcements). Yes a 4.3ghz 6900k would be equivalent to a 4.4 or a 4.5ghz 5960x but not a 4.7ghz. We all know even games that use all 8 cores are still bound by 1-2 cores primarily so clock speed is still more important than # of cores.

I'd say single thread performance is only more important in older games. New games, especially when DX12 matures, will certainly take advantage of all the cores you can throw at it. A 10% IPC improvement, if it is proportional to actual clock speed, would mean a 4.3GHz 6900K or Broadwell-E would perform just as well as your 4.7GHz 5960X (4.3GHz * 1.1 = 4.73).
 
One review site got their 6850K to 4.4GHz at 1.25V which doesn't seem bad at all considering my 5930K sucks at overclocking. Doesn't even handle my memory at its stock rating when I have put the voltage all over the place for 4.3GHz and 4.5GHz. Their 6800K on the other hand was awful - maybe some binning going on here with Intel.
 
I went to Micro Center (45 minute drive) and got there right when they opened. I knew I should've went after work (and called first) because wouldn't you know it, they had boxes of 6800K's but NOTHING ELSE. Wasted my freakin' time. Ordered at gouged prices on Amazon and will hopefully get it soon... then just pricematch Micro Center with my credit card afterwards if they ever even carry the stupid things.