2017 Hardware Thread

slicendice said:

LOL!

It takes time to manufacture these chips, get orders, ship them and put them on the shelves. Just because the papers and specs has been released, does not mean that Intel has already produced millions of these CPUs, ready to be delivered. That would be bad business.

Small batches which will be adjusted with demand is the way to go. That is how all chip and hardware makers does it. :)

. IMHO that's nothing but a survey to see how many morons will pay over $700USD more than what I paid for my I7 6700K for a CPU that can't perform any better in gaming (where it counts for me and many).

Or since it's advertised in bin clocks (on a CPU that does 5.0 anyway) maybe it's a marketing survey to see what some might pay for an 8K Time Spy CPU score.

Over $1,000 US for that CPU? No thanks.

So thanks to AMD scaring Intel a bit we finally have Intel 6+ multi core CPU options (hopefully at a reasonable price).

There must have been a high level Intel meeting with the topic header "we have competition now. How do we handle that and the release of our new CPU's?

I think the answer was: Hire more marketing people.

sygnus21 said:

Actually, it's the benchmarks that count. Gaming is just secondary. And those "morons" understand that better than you think

That said, even most of them (in your words, "morons"), aren't paying those prices.

Not to me and many others.

sygnus21 said:

Yeah because we don't have a multitude of benchmarking threads in this forum.... and all over the net. It must be that illusive illusion I'm seeing. Oh, and lets not forget those morons aren't aware these chips aren't any better for gaming than the last ones. After all, they're morons

C'mon man

I'm talking about the price of $1,050 USD. I've already said on this forum if I was building a new rig I would go for an I7 8700K, if it was at a reasonable price. What are you arguing about? If they "aren't paying those prices" they aren't morons.