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LTC8K6 said:
We all know that's a sign of love and he's trying to pre-order like mad. :D
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A couple years ago, my F5 finger would have fallen off by now trying to preorder this thing. Those days are gone. I have certain expectations now for a $500 CPU thanks to AMD's innovation and epic market breakthrough with Ryzen. For me personally, a $500 CPU needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...needs to...oh crap something broke...$500 CPU make no sense anymore...needs to...needs to...
 
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By branding Skylake-X Refresh as 9xxx I think it confirms that Cascade Lake-X has been cancelled.
 
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arandomguy said:
I see this reasoning brought up but I don't understand it.

Zen, 6 months CFL, 6 months Zen+, 6 months CFL-R, 6 months? Zen 2, 6 months? Intel whatever.

So why is the viewpoint that Zen 2 is very close? Seems like whatever the next side releases is very close based on that logic.
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Yea, I agree. What is intel supposed to do, roll over and die because Zen 2 is coming out? They will certainly have the mainstream desktop lead in both single and multi-threaded performance until Zen 2 comes out, but I guess that is not enough somehow. And I am waiting for real benchmarks to see if Zen 2 matches or beats the 9900k, in contrast to the premature assumptions from the AMD camp.
 
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Head1985 said:
Zen will be at 7nm + new architecture.Thats huge.
intel is stuck with skylake architecture and 14nm more than 3 years by now.
6700k,7700k,8700k,9900k all are same cpus(acrhitecture).Intel only add more cores and like 10% better oc.
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It’s weird how things change.

In the past, Intel would launch a new architecture and sell its products based on its cutting-edge technology. AMD, the runner-up, would try to increase the number of cores to be competitive.

Now the roles seem to have reversed. AMD is launching a new 7nm architecture, and Intel is again increasing the core count of its old 14nm process.
 
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"The other angle, I suspect, is one of the side-channel attacks that can occur when HyperThreading is in action. By disabling HyperThreading on the volume production chips, this security issue is no longer present."

I find this argument quite odd, since I think most laptops are still HT enabled, all Xeons pretty much are HT enabled...

it's imo pure and simple the way to segment/limit performance to explore more price points and position against AMD/their older products and absolutely nothing else.



in any case, 9900K looks like crtl+c, crtl+v a couple of cores! it will probably still work on Z170 even with DDR3 with the right hacks!?
 
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arandomguy said:
$16 price increase for 8700k -> 9700k.

$5 price increase for 8600k -> 9600k.

36% price increase for 8700k-> 9900k (33% more cores).
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I wonder if these price increases mirror the performance increases. One year later, it seems that the advances in technology were zero.

I am somewhat disappointed at these prices. Living in Brazil, in the middle of political uncertainty and a huge economic crisis, a very unfavorable exchange rate, and abusive taxes of over 100%, I would of course prefer to settle with something cheaper than the i9-9900K.

But I am struggling to see any real benefit of the i5-9600K over the i5-8600K, for instance. And I am not sure if the i7-9700K is really so much better than the i7-8700K.

It seems to me Intel is (again) trying to increase prices, even though it shouldn’t as it is once again failing to deliver the advances in technology that the world is expecting it to.
 
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Also, UK website listing for sale the Asus Z390 MB's as of about an hour ago... all of them EXCEPT the Maximus 'Extreme' model... Nothing on Amazon yet with the Asus Z390's...

Will be interesting to see what takes longer to receive, the EVGA 2080ti or the ROG Asus Maximus MB's. Asus implying the Z390 MB's will be available 'soon', but it seems NOT the Maximus 'Extreme' model.

I'm concerned w/ trade issues/tariff on comp components starting @ January 1st... If 25%, just WOW. I didn't plan on getting my parts for the new build until Jan/Feb '19, but rushing a bit to do it now.
 
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RichUK said:
488 bucks for the 9900k. Dayum, that's not bad.
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This is not bad, considering that it is the new flagship (even though Intel increased significantly the price of its flagship).

What is really bad is that Intel is increasing again the prices of the whole line-up. The i5-9600K and the i7-9700K are more expensive than their 8th generation counterparts, even though I see them adding very little benefit.
 
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skaertus said:
I wonder if these price increases mirror the performance increases. One year later, it seems that the advances in technology were zero.

I am somewhat disappointed at these prices. Living in Brazil, in the middle of political uncertainty and a huge economic crisis, a very unfavorable exchange rate, and abusive taxes of over 100%, I would of course prefer to settle with something cheaper than the i9-9900K.

But I am struggling to see any real benefit of the i5-9600K over the i5-8600K, for instance. And I am not sure if the i7-9700K is really so much better than the i7-8700K.

It seems to me Intel is (again) trying to increase prices, even though it shouldn’t as it is once again failing to deliver the advances in technology that the world is expecting it to.
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I can't recall even the suggestion of any advances in technology in CPUs any time soon for Intel or AMD.

9600K should be faster than the 8600K at stock and overclocked given the clocks and the solder.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13401/9thGenTurbos.png
 
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skaertus said:
This is not bad, considering that it is the new flagship (even though Intel increased significantly the price of its flagship).

What is really bad is that Intel is increasing again the prices of the whole line-up. The i5-9600K and the i7-9700K are more expensive than their 8th generation counterparts, even though I see them adding very little benefit.
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9700K really has no 8th gen counterpart. The 8700K might keep up in some multi thread benches, but I kind of doubt it. I think overall the true 8 cores will probably stay ahead of 6 cores plus HT.
Also the 9000 series have some hardware fixes for meltdown and spectre.
 
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RichUK said:
488 bucks for the 9900k. Dayum, that's not bad.
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In a time with very good competition in the CPU landscape, this is the first time a mainstream CPU cost close to $500.
I dont know about you guys but it looks to me that something is wrong with the world we are living lately.
 
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AtenRa said:
In a time with very good competition in the CPU landscape, this is the first time a mainstream CPU cost close to $500.
I dont know about you guys but it looks to me that something is wrong with the world we are living lately.
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i7-9700K is the mainstream replacement for the 7700 and 8700. 8 real intel cores @ 4.6 GHz all-core-turbo and with a 95 watt TDP for under $400 tells me the CPU world is doing just fine. (Thanks Ryzen!)
 
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I count roughly 33 dies across and 16 down (including some cut off), that would give us a die size of 170.4375mm^2 ~ or 9.09 x 18.75
 
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