I7 990X Hits The Egg

[Hogan773]

There are people who will spend $200,000 for a car that can go 180mph even though you could also spend $70,000 for something that goes nearly as fast, and reality is you'll hardly ever use it. There are some people with e-peen issues that will pay for this "just because". Maybe a few of them actually do enough tough CPU work that they will see benefit.

Wih SB in the 200-300 range it makes it much harder to rationalize this frivolous purchase IMO

 

[Athadeus]

Extreme edition is still a waste when you could just get a multi socket board and 2+ cheaper CPUs. I seriously doubt that there is any application that can utilize 6 cores that doesn't support multiple physical CPUs.

 

[james1701]

Thanks op.

 

[OCGuy]

Perfectly fine as long as people understand what they are buying, or in this case people that are buying a renamed 980X.

Huh?

 

[IntelUser2000]

The 6 core Core i7 970 got a big price cut. It was $885, now its $583. Still expensive, but so much better if you want a 6 core, and its only 133MHz slower than the 980X.

 

[Rubycon]

IMO all 1366 chips are a waste of money anymore. You're paying for Old tech

I'd rather buy old tech [sic] than defective tech! (if there are no motherboards worth a damn what good is it!)

Extreme edition is still a waste when you could just get a multi socket board and 2+ cheaper CPUs. I seriously doubt that there is any application that can utilize 6 cores that doesn't support multiple physical CPUs.

SMP boards do NOT allow overclocking so you're stuck with a slower solution. SMP boards require RDIMMS which are more expensive. They often have higher chassis requirements as well. Not a 1:1 comparison at all.

I know the SR2 allows O/C but if one NEEDS SMP they should buy a real SMP board in the first place that supports more memory. The SR2 is major fail only supporting 24GB per CPU. :biggrin:

Many professional applications will support multiple cores and sockets. However some are also licensed by socket. This worked out well when dual core came out as one could purchase a single socket license and have nearly the same performance of a dual socket system (same CPU specs) and not have to pay for that extra socket (which can be thousands of dollars!).

The 980X was/is a niche product for the longest time as it was the only desktop processor released with six cores for the longest time.

With the i7 920 - especially the D0 stepping - one could easily run at 200 base clock at 21X (with turbo) multi for 4.2GHz and get better performance than the (then) $1k i7 975EE chip. Some 975s went a bit higher but for the price difference ($800!) getting 4.2GHz (or 4.4+ GHz if you were lucky) for $200 was nice. That's why the 920/W3520 reminds me of the Celeron 300A of 1998.

 

[SHAQ]

I can only buy 5? No thanks.

 

[aigomorla]

Folks that put 100GFLOPS worth of CPU in their box and have a pair of SSDs in RAID0 on ICH = LOL. Whatever floats their boat I suppose.

:ninja:

990X is the B1 stepping as the 980X.

And my 990X is most definitely faster then my 2600K when i do encoding or stuff like that.

Anyhow i think i had a nice ride on this 990X, considering how long ago i got to preview it.

Now ive seen a 995X, however im hearing intel pulled this one at the last minute.
However i have seen real validation screens from 995X.

So it boils down to this.
If we see a 995X expect at least a 1Q delay on LGA2011.
If not, then consumers will get LGA2011 @ the later date intel promised.

HOWEVER, i still say EXPECT DELAYS.

 

[Lightflash]

Huh?

Sorry writing skills failed me. Meant to say that it is fine if people know what they are getting, otherwise it is just a 980X with a different name. The binning is probably better, but not enough to justify the 990X name and additional cost.

 

[Baasha]

Sorry writing skills failed me. Meant to say that it is fine if people know what they are getting, otherwise it is just a 980X with a different name. The binning is probably better, but not enough to justify the 990X name and additional cost.

Well, the 980X is still $1,000. Anyone willing to pay $1,000 for a CPU will NOT mind paying $50 more for the latest and greatest, even if the difference is negligible. Given the fact that the 990X are better binned CPUs, I think the additional $50 is more than worth it IMO.

Finally, the chip is out! Hello GULFTOWN!

 

[Castiel]

I'd rather buy old tech [sic] than defective tech! (if there are no motherboards worth a damn what good is it!)

Chip isnt defective

 

[Idontcare]

Well, the 980X is still $1,000. Anyone willing to pay $1,000 for a CPU will NOT mind paying $50 more for the latest and greatest, even if the difference is negligible. Given the fact that the 990X are better binned CPUs, I think the additional $50 is more than worth it IMO.

Finally, the chip is out! Hello GULFTOWN!

And its not really right to compare it as a $50 adder to a $1000 purchase...if you are buying a 990X then odds are that you are new to the whole platform and as such you are buying a new mobo plus ram and possibly a HSF. Maybe new PSU/GPU/Case to boot.

So from the perspective of a the buyer they are really looking at it as "for $2100 I can have a cherry 980X rig, or for $2150 I can have a cherry 990X rig".

$50 means nothing in that scheme of things, if it does then one should really question whether they ought to be shelling out $1k for a CPU in the first place.

 

[Rubycon]

Chip isnt defective

I already acknowledged that.

That's been AMD's problem for years - great silicon but horrid boards to host them. In the case with SB there are just no boards right now. Hardcore users are scavenging places with stock of recalled boards just to run their 2600Ks. Kind of funny.

 

[Tsavo]

Anything over 3 cards is a waste because there's no room for the RAID controller! :biggrin:

Parallel port raid controllers work well and are cheap these days.

 

[lamedude]

Does this fix the disabling cores kills the CPU that problem the 980x had?

 

[Diogenes2]

??

Why would you disable any cores ?

 

[AdamK47]

Does this fix the disabling cores kills the CPU that problem the 980x had?

Never heard of this one.

 

[aigomorla]

Does this fix the disabling cores kills the CPU that problem the 980x had?

only happened on a few B0's.
Not B1's

Never heard of this one.

yeah it was a funny bug.. id had 2 friends who pop'd there cpu on this one.

 

[Baasha]

only happened on a few B0's.
Not B1's

Are the 990X all B1's?

 

[aigomorla]

Are the 990X all B1's?

as far as i know.

Intel said no more New Steppings.

 

[Diogenes2]

oops

 

[jiffylube1024]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...15079&Tpk=990x

Talk about overpriced for what you get. Prelude to 2011 prices?

Socket 1366 and hex core over 3 GHz. You can't get that kind of performance on a desktop anywhere else.

IMO all 1366 chips are a waste of money anymore. You're paying for Old tech

I wouldn't buy a $500+ CPU or $200+ motherboard either, but for people with the money to burn, why not?

The 6 core Core i7 970 got a big price cut. It was $885, now its $583. Still expensive, but so much better if you want a 6 core, and its only 133MHz slower than the 980X.

Yep. The i7 970 looks to be the Intel hex-core sweet spot now. $599 now for the i7 970 @ Newegg, which is $450 less than the $1049 i7 990X. $450 only buys you 266 MHz more --- 6x 3.20 GHz CPU vs 6x 3.46 GHz.

 

[Sinanju]

There are people who will spend $200,000 for a car that can go 180mph even though you could also spend $70,000 for something that goes nearly as fast, and reality is you'll hardly ever use it. There are some people with e-peen issues that will pay for this "just because". Maybe a few of them actually do enough tough CPU work that they will see benefit.

Wih SB in the 200-300 range it makes it much harder to rationalize this frivolous purchase IMO

it sounds like you know some ZR1 buyers that should have got the GT-R lol