Worth stashing away some new X99 mobos?

[Essence_of_War]

Motherboards as an investment is just a bad idea. Very, very bad idea.

Agreed.

If you want to gamble, there are a million ways to do so that are more fun than buying x99 motherboards, squirelling them away at your own expense in your own home or storage space, on the hope that someday you'll be able to re-coup an ROI that beats the spread, and the percentages that get eaten up by ebay, paypal etc.

Go to a casino, bring a couple hundred bucks, find the table with the lowest blackjack minimums and play basic strategy all night. You'll have more fun, and you won't have a closet filled with hardware that you're not having any fun using, and no one will ever want.

Or buy futures of your favorite tech company stock.

 

[stockwiz]

Waste of money and space...besides x99 is gonna be around awhile... As long As Intel doesn't have 6 core parts on any other platform and if skylake shows up with smallish ~5-10% IPC gains over haswell just buy another x99 board in a year or two when you need it... board makers seem to be introducing new technologies as they arrive (H.2, USB 3.1, etc)

 

[cbn]

Waste of money and space...besides x99 is gonna be around awhile... As long As Intel doesn't have 6 core parts on any other platform and with skylakes meager IPC gains over haswell just buy another x99 board in a year or two when you need it... For less money.

Buying X99 today with the idea of using it later wouldn't make sense because the motherboard pricing won't be anything special. I think person would have to wait at least another year to get it on closeout.

With that mentioned, I am concerned about how the price of used LGA 2011-3 processors will compare to whatever we see on Skylake-E? For example, take a look at what used i7 3930K and i7 4930K are selling for compared to the i7-5820K. (eg, i7 3930K is going for around $350 shipped in the ebay buy it now listings. That is not much of discount compared to what a new i7 5820K costs. In some cases a new sale priced i7 5820K will be priced even lower than $350. )

 

[escrow4]

Used Intel CPUs don't make sense unless its a complete refurb box. Intel CPU prices don't drop. They die out and the new version takes its place. Equally buying into what will be a dead socket doesn't make sense either.

 

[MongGrel]

I have all the X58's I'll ever use atm.

I doubt the same thing will happen again buying MOBOs atm.

I bought one P6T Deluxe V2 for $135 last year just to put my X5650 in it for a bedroom computer at the time when I picked a X5680 pretty cheap, and had a lot of things to build it all ready.

I couldn't see stockpiling MOBOs these days as being viable, but what do I know.