This will be extremely nice chipset and excellent investment for people who loved X79 and X99.
My Rampage X99 full fill expectations and that mean next mobo is Rampage again.
I expect to be nicest build in my life. I still didn't decide about case between Mac G5 modification will cost me much cheaper then other candidates
Lian Li PC-O10
Lian Li PC-O11
In Win 805 Infinity ROG Certified
I hope Intel will not dissapoint us.
That mean better CPU than 1800X for few dollars more.
But I don't like if Intel compete to AMD 8 cores with 10 and 12 cores, that's not fair.
Intel should beat 6 core with 6 core and 1800x with 8 cores and nice price.
But situation is not so good because AMD have attractive price 499$, 501$ look completely different.
That mean if Intel fail to beat 1800X with 6 cores he will need to offer 8 cores for arround 500$.
Because small number of enthusiasts are ready to pay 600-700$ for CPU no matter what they offer.
Customers will not buy weaker processor for similar price as AMD because we talk about enthusiasts chipset where performance winner is important.
My Rampage X99 full fill expectations and that mean next mobo is Rampage again.
I expect to be nicest build in my life. I still didn't decide about case between Mac G5 modification will cost me much cheaper then other candidates
Lian Li PC-O10
Lian Li PC-O11
In Win 805 Infinity ROG Certified
I hope Intel will not dissapoint us.
That mean better CPU than 1800X for few dollars more.
But I don't like if Intel compete to AMD 8 cores with 10 and 12 cores, that's not fair.
Intel should beat 6 core with 6 core and 1800x with 8 cores and nice price.
But situation is not so good because AMD have attractive price 499$, 501$ look completely different.
That mean if Intel fail to beat 1800X with 6 cores he will need to offer 8 cores for arround 500$.
Because small number of enthusiasts are ready to pay 600-700$ for CPU no matter what they offer.
Customers will not buy weaker processor for similar price as AMD because we talk about enthusiasts chipset where performance winner is important.
If you want a lot of processing power with heavy multi-threading, the AMD Naples (Edit: just announced as "Threadripper") 16-core processors look like they may out-gun Skylake-X.
If you want gaming performance, Kaby Lake and the supposedly-coming-in-August Coffee Lake, will do better with lightly threaded loads.
X299 I/O will be stale almost as soon as it comes to market (it is basically the same as the Z270 chipset) with the 300-series having integrated USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gb/s) and WiFi.
I don't see any good situation to use Skylake-X, and even less for Kaby Lake-X (which is basically a special for LN2 overclockers, who have issue with thermal interface materials at low sub-zero temperatures). You get middle-of-the-road performance at a huge price premium.
If you want gaming performance, Kaby Lake and the supposedly-coming-in-August Coffee Lake, will do better with lightly threaded loads.
X299 I/O will be stale almost as soon as it comes to market (it is basically the same as the Z270 chipset) with the 300-series having integrated USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gb/s) and WiFi.
I don't see any good situation to use Skylake-X, and even less for Kaby Lake-X (which is basically a special for LN2 overclockers, who have issue with thermal interface materials at low sub-zero temperatures). You get middle-of-the-road performance at a huge price premium.
