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So who is planning on switching to x99 as their main platform and why? 

 

If you are looking at it and shaking your head...Why not?

 
 
 

 

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eh, sure ddr4 woot but intels just been flooding the market with sockets and chipset's lately its annoying

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I might. A more appropriate question would be: "Why not?"

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Yeah pretty excited. although I will be waiting for next iteration.

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Maybe, because of DDR4 being implemented. Still I won't have the money to afford that extreme platform in anytime. Better stick with Z/H platforms  :lol:

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What is this ''x99''?

x99 will be the newest version of the LGA 2011 socket (x79).

it will be for enthusiasts.

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I will get exited, when I can finally buy the damn 5960X, they really really need to just sell it to me now :D

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I'm a little bit excited for the 8-core CPU but I don't get why people are excited for DDR4 as we already have fast DDR3 modules with lower timings.

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DDR4 is going to be the biggest difference and is quite exciting I suppose. I want my next build to be mitx though and x99 would be pretty useless on mitx so...yeah.

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More cores hopefully :D

Its just a shame we can expect DDR4 prices to be stupidly expensive for the first couple of years :angry: (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-CR)

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Nope, I'm waiting for the second generation that would be either more streamlined less buggy. Unless DDR4 is able to provide a HUGE boost in price/performance, it doesn't seem like it would matter. Not to mention waiting for the RAM manufactures to produce enough DDR4 to bring it down to a reasonable price. DDR3 is still pretty pricey for 8gb of ram.

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More cores hopefully :D

Its just a shame we can expect DDR4 prices to be stupidly expensive for the first couple of years :angry: (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-CR)

 

Well, every new generation of DDR when they just arrived are all so damn expensive you know  :lol:  :lol:

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Me because I'm going to be building a $10k build for a mate when it comes out.


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I could care less about anything new coming out as I won't have the money to spend on it and I won't have any money to spend on pc hardware probably for at least 2 years.  Now even if I had the money to spend on pc hardware I can't say I know enough about what x99 will offer to excite me but can say that if I was able to put together a rig to play games at 4K well now that would be something to go crazy over.

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More cores hopefully :D

Its just a shame we can expect DDR4 prices to be stupidly expensive for the first couple of years :angry: (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-CR)

 

Highly depends on what clock speed you're looking at, the kits rated for 2133MHz are just a little more expensive than DDR3. As for how soon the prices will drop, that will probably depend on how soon DDR4 finds it's way to other platforms. Once production on these are ramped up, you'll see the price come down a lot on the high frequency kits as well. 

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Highly depends on what clock speed you're looking at, the kits rated for 2133MHz are just a little more expensive than DDR3. As for how soon the prices will drop, that will probably depend on how soon DDR4 finds it's way to other platforms. Once production on these are ramped up, you'll see the price come down a lot on the high frequency kits as well. 

 

Well at least things will be much smoother and pricing will be better on the road, unlike back in the early DDR3 days when the price gap is quite huge

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More cores hopefully :D

Its just a shame we can expect DDR4 prices to be stupidly expensive for the first couple of years :angry: (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-CR)

That's honestly not that expensive. There are 2800mhz DDR3 kits on that site that are only 50 pound cheaper.

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Im actually not excited for X99 looks ike a ''10 %'' upgrade to me.

I rather want to see Skylake in the future and AMD RD790 chipset because of more pci express lanes.

plus ddr4 will then be cheaper or we will have ddr69 ready. jk

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I'm not excited as I don't have bags o' gold I can just pick out with some ear buds every week. I'm not even excited for DDR4, the technological advancements I like, but if I can't hold it or plan it in an upcoming build than I have no excitement or real interest in them. 

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excited? yeh sure its new tech and stuff why wouldn't I be?

 

not excited as well? ffs sure its gonna be an even trade with asus for my wallet, in return I get a nice mobo :P

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