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If you live near a microcenter. The 5820k is $299, only $20 more than an 4790k. And a budget X99 board from Asrock is $160 after rebate. DDR4 ram is also near the same price per GB ddr3 was a year ago. It gets really annoying when people say that X99 is expensive when Skylake is much more expensive than X99 and Z97 is only a little cheaper. 

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If you live near a microcenter. The 5820k is $299, only $20 more than an 4790k. And a budget X99 board from Asrock is $160 after rebate. DDR4 ram is also near the same price per GB ddr3 was a year ago. It gets really annoying when people say that X99 is expensive when Skylake is much more expensive than X99 and Z97 is only a little cheaper. 

microcenter is 5 mins away from my house

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Why do you need a budget x99 ? Why not get an 4790k?

Cause it's very similar pricing.

If you live near a microcenter. The 5820k is $299, only $20 more than an 4790k. And a budget X99 board from Asrock is $160 after rebate. DDR4 ram is also near the same price per GB ddr3 was a year ago. It gets really annoying when people say that X99 is expensive when Skylake is much more expensive than X99 and Z97 is only a little cheaper. 

Exactly I've had this discussion numerous times already and it was exactly what I did.

microcenter is 5 mins away from my house

Yep thats what I did, plus if you buy the mobo at microcenter you get like 20-40 dollars off on a combo. 

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