Rumour: Intel’s Broadwell-E 10 Core processor, i7-6950X will cost $1500

[Enderman]

4 hours ago, Prysin said:

It's Broadwell-E

Meaning 5-7% faster than haswell but not quite skylake speeds either

look at the other half dozen posts that said that before you

6 hours ago, DXMember said:

OMG, It's Broadwell-E not Skylake.... did you even read the topic title before posting? Topic title is over there ↑

oh look, another person who doesn't know how to scroll down before replying

[patrickjp93]

3 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Isn't this like super old and probably a repost at this point?

Pedantically, yes, but this is a NEW round of rumor. A rumor to not quite confirm the last iteration.

[Megahurt]

Seems legit, Intel probably isn't too worried about the sales number on their enthusiast platform. Maybe prices will go down after Haswell-E stocks go down or when Zen launches, but that might have more of an impact on 1151 skylake prices.

[VagabondWraith]

I'm definitely getting 4 6950X and doing a quad ILI (Intel Link Interface) rig.

[79wjd]

3 minutes ago, VagabondWraith said:

I'm definitely getting 4 6950X and doing a quad ILI (Intel Link Interface) rig.

Since when do the enthusiast chips (or any non Xeon's for that matter) support ILI?

[-BirdiE-]

4 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Isn't this like super old and probably a repost at this point?

Was just about to say the same thing. This is from months ago.

[Mirdon]

I was about to consider this, then those cheap dual xeons happened....

[Sakkura]

Those prices look odd. The cheapest 6-core is $450? The recommended retail price for the 5820K is around $390...

[ltguy]

I don't think it will be that big of a deal and that's why they are giving us more cores. The true advantages of skylake are not the processor itself, but rather the peripheral  and storage improvements (and maybe ddr4). So to go to broadwell and keep the same motherboard and chipset will only be a measly 5% ipc improvement and not much else. I cant see anyone upgrading from haswell e unless they are getting the 10 core version.