Intel's new processors are ridiculously powerful

No surprise.
/Conspiracy theory tinfoil hat on: They're holding back technology and gradually increasing power, so that they can continuously make money. Now, with AMD's new Ryzen CPU's, they're hand is forced a bit. So now they have to release a more powerful CPU from their archives, to stay relevant in the market. "whistling:
 
beans100 said:
No surprise.
/Conspiracy theory tinfoil hat on: They're holding back technology and gradually increasing power, so that they can continuously make money. Now, with AMD's new Ryzen CPU's, they're hand is forced a bit. So now they have to release a more powerful CPU from their archives, to stay relevant in the market. "whistling:
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Economy has always slowed down technological advancement...
 
beans100 said:
No surprise.
/Conspiracy theory tinfoil hat on: They're holding back technology and gradually increasing power, so that they can continuously make money. Now, with AMD's new Ryzen CPU's, they're hand is forced a bit. So now they have to release a more powerful CPU from their archives, to stay relevant in the market. "whistling:
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of course same applies to telkom, now that fibre is springing up everywhere they are suddenly increasing line speeds for everyone, something they could have done 2-3 years ago already
 
Ridiculously powerful, but also ridiculously expensive.

Guess there is still a market for it though.
 
Blazzok said:
Ridiculously powerful, but also ridiculously expensive.

Guess there is still a market for it though.
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Ridiculous power draw. We talking 800W at the wall if it's OC'ed.

http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-core-i9-7980xe-18-core-processor-review_197903/10

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It seems it won't be as popular as Intel thinks it will be. There is still plenty of 7700/6600 and even 5th Gen i5 K-series CPU's which are more than adequate for gaming and work. Specially when over clocked. This added to the fact that if you just bought a 7700k You CPU won't work on the new Z-series boards.
 
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Glordit said:
Ridiculous power draw. We talking 800W at the wall if it's OC'ed.

http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-core-i9-7980xe-18-core-processor-review_197903/10

Edit

It seems it won't be as popular as Intel thinks it will be. There is still plenty of 7700/6600 and even 5th Gen i5 K-series CPU's which are more than adequate for gaming and work. Specially when over clocked. This added to the fact that if you just bought a 7700k You CPU won't work on the new Z-series boards.
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Holy shit that is a lot of power draw for a CPU! Sure, it is only when OC'd, but still.

The position of these i9 chips is an odd one. I would imagine someone looking for these many cores would just get a Xeon chip instead, and then they can also use ECC memory (ECC is disabled on the i9's). It looks like Intel were caught a bit off guard by AMD with the Threadripper.
 
Very curious to see where this will fit into the current market indeed.
"Core i9-7980XE has been overclocked to 6.1GHz and drew 1,000 watts of power." Goeie donner! Imagine the heat on that thing! WoW
 
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