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Which Broadwell-E did you buy?

  • Only the best for me, 6950X!

  • Eight core goodness, 6900K.

  • Six cores with lots of PCI-E lanes, 6850K.

  • Six cores and 28 PCI-E lanes on the "cheap," 6800K.

  • I own a Haswell-E, am not buying Broadwell-E, but demand to be represented in this poll!

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ezcameron76 said:
I appreciate it and I guess I made the better call then its just when reading everything online its like get a higher clocked cpu then cores. And it worried me as the hex cores only get around 3.5Ghz not 4 or more.
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You should be able to get to 4GHz+ as long as you have a good cooler (AIO water cooler would be nice). Do you intend to overclock? What cooler are you using?
 
Ive been trying to buy a 6850 or even a 6900 all day, but I refuse to pay these 3rd party seller price gouging prices. Headed to microcenter tomorrow. Online it says they only have 6800 or 6950. Im hoping they have the middle guys too tomorrow.....

I have the mobo, ram, case, psu ready. Just need the processor and my 2 GTX1080 FTW to come......
 
Bubba77 said:
Ive been trying to buy a 6850 or even a 6900 all day, but I refuse to pay these 3rd party seller price gouging prices. Headed to microcenter tomorrow. Online it says they only have 6800 or 6950. Im hoping they have the middle guys too tomorrow.....

I have the mobo, ram, case, psu ready. Just need the processor and my 2 GTX1080 FTW to come......
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This is a fail of a launch on Intel's part in terms of availability. Newegg is sold out of all but the 6800K.
 
Arachnotronic said:
You should be able to get to 4GHz+ as long as you have a good cooler (AIO water cooler would be nice). Do you intend to overclock? What cooler are you using?
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I will have the asus x99-II motherboard but my cooler will be a Corsair H100i v2 cooler. I just keep being told by others to sell it when i get it or return it and buy a 5820k or take everything back and get a 6700k.
 
ezcameron76 said:
I will have the asus x99-II motherboard but my cooler will be a Corsair H100i v2 cooler. I just keep being told by others to sell it when i get it or return it and buy a 5820k or take everything back and get a 6700k.
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Stop listening to them and enjoy your build. 5820K is old tech, don't buy that unless you're getting a good deal on a used chip. 6700K is a nice chip but if your horizon is many years, and as long as you plan to overclock, the 6800K should be the better long term bet.

Don't doubt your purchases, you did well. Put that system together when your chip arrives and enjoy 🙂
 
Arachnotronic said:
This is a fail of a launch on Intel's part in terms of availability. Newegg is sold out of all but the 6800K.
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It's almost like the QX6700 all over again! Except back then, NewEgg managed to retain stock by going +$600 over MSRP.

And people wonder why Intel is charging $1700 for the 6950X? If Intel wasn't gonna do it, NewEgg would . . .
 
I'm in to see if I can talk myself into upgrading. I have the X99, but BW-E has turned out a bit less interesting than I thought it would be.
 
ezcameron76 said:
I purchased my i7 6800k from newegg for $450 and it will be here this thursday. I am finding a lot of posts saying it overclocks for crap barely getting 4.4Ghz where the 5820k can go higher minimum 4.5 no problem at lower voltages.

I am upgrading my pc after 7 years and want to not have to upgrade again for around the same time or more. I dont want to make a mistake. My cooler for whichever will be a corsair H100i v2 and I have the asus x99-II motherboard. I dont know what would be best to do as the 5820 is overclocking better or what please help and sorry if any of this is dumb first post
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I'm upgrading myself after about 7 years. I had a sandyb 2600k system for a year but I had to give it back (work). My last personal system I bought myself was an arrandale based i7 laptop. My current rig is i5 based lynnfield that I've been borrowing until my upgrade. I CANNOT WAIT

Amazon has them for $449 I see, but $36 in taxes..its that normal?
 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FJLA8NI...TF8&colid=2K3G8KDASMPCQ&coliid=I2ND2FXT2RLGP1

You have to click on other sellers. For some reason the main listing isn't Amazon's own but a 3rd party's for $490, but its in there. Amazon is actually selling it for $441

Bubba77 said:
Ive been trying to buy a 6850 or even a 6900 all day, but I refuse to pay these 3rd party seller price gouging prices. Headed to microcenter tomorrow. Online it says they only have 6800 or 6950. Im hoping they have the middle guys too tomorrow.....

I have the mobo, ram, case, psu ready.
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try amazon they have it for $628..SAme deal as above...must be a glitch..click "new from $628" : http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-6850...&keywords=Intel+Boxed+Core+i7-6850K+Processor

Although it looks like they're selling the 6900k foir $1108. ouchies

 
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ezcameron76 said:
I appreciate it I just want something to last I keep going back and forth about those options or even all the posts saying the i7 6700k would have been better as I game more then anything else.
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I seriously doubt that there will ever be a game where the 6700k is significantly faster than a 6800k@4.4ghz but there will be lots of situations where the 6800k is much faster than the 6700k. Sure the 6700k will top the benchmarks in many games, but it will be single digit percentages, not making any difference in gaming experience. The 6800k will blow the 6700k out of the water in any multi threaded software. Whether or not games will be able to take better advantage of more cores to a significant degree is still unknown, but I would choose 40% better multi threaded performance with <10% single threaded performance penalty, any day.
 
biostud said:
I seriously doubt that there will ever be a game where the 6700k is significantly faster than a 6800k@4.4ghz but there will be lots of situations where the 6800k is much faster than the 6700k. Sure the 6700k will top the benchmarks in many games, but it will be single digit percentages, not making any difference in gaming experience. The 6800k will blow the 6700k out of the water in any multi threaded software. Whether or not games will be able to take better advantage of more cores to a significant degree is still unknown, but I would choose 40% better multi threaded performance with <10% single threaded performance penalty, any day.
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I appreciate your comment and same with everyone else at reassuring me I haven't messed up in building my new pc and picking my cpu. Thanks and I am now once again excited. This is certainly a more expensive build for me then I normally do I hope it pays off. 🙂
 
DrMrLordX said:
Sorry for your loss, but not sorry for your chance to upgrade. Enjoy the new toy!
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Thanks 🙂

Arachnotronic said:
Wow, 2008-2016, eight years with the same CPU. Amazing how long that chip could hold up, and hold up well.

Welcome to the 6800K club 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I got the Q9450 just as it came out. I remember lots of people saying what a waste of money it would be 😉 8 years of service proved them wrong :awe:
 
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