Original 5% off Sitewide at eBay Deal Post
Intel Core i7-6850K15M Broadwell-E 6-Core CPU BX80671I76850K US $336.44 (~AU $424.42) Delivered
Cheaper than Amazon deal and no prime required plus 1.3% cashback.
Original 5% off Sitewide at eBay Deal Post
Intel Core i7-6850K15M Broadwell-E 6-Core CPU BX80671I76850K US $336.44 (~AU $424.42) Delivered
Cheaper than Amazon deal and no prime required plus 1.3% cashback.
Hold for Coffee Lake.
Who has that kinda time?
I'll have a Latte please.
Just an important note that this is LGA2011-V3, so you need an appropriate motherboard to uses this CPU. Example ASUS X99.
Shit, X99, they got their moneys worth
I thought I made the right choice with Z170, next gen of nothing
Or just get a Ryzen 1700 for less than $400, with a cheaper board as well. 33% more cores. 33% less cost.
Yep. I already have an X99 mobo with a 5820k in it. I don't see why I'd upgrade to even the top x99 8core cpu 6950x when I could just move to Ryzen 1700 for better cheaper multithreaded performance.
Ryzen doesn't do well in some applications like Lightroom, so I had to go the X99 path.
For users who need the PCI-E lanes this is actually a really nice deal. If you're not one of these people stick with Ryzen or wait for coffee lake.
Great for highly parallel multi-threaded apps, but still no faster than a 5-year-old core-i5 for single-threaded apps.
So don't have unrealistic expectations for an upgrade.