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. 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.
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 have been thinking about building a mini-ITX rig around the 8700K and GTX 1080Ti. All water cooled of course, and because size matters to me. The smaller the better.
In addition I would only need 2x NVMe drives, 4x SATA SSD and 32GB of Dual Channel RAM and the rig would fly for years to come ( at least if one compares to my current fossils ). The case I was thinking about would just fit all elements including the water cooling.
What do you think?