On AMD site is party, they celebrate funeral of Intel, dictator is dead after 10 years of domination.
People are robbed, i7-3970X is 10% slower than i7-6850K, distance is 5 years. Both are with same number of cores, same CPU Cache and similar frequency.
Overclock i7-5820K vs i7-5820K on stock is bigger difference than i7-3970X vs i7-6850K.
i7-6950X have single threade performance as i7-3770K, people need to overclock him to reach i7-4770K single performance.
Need to be overclocked more than 1000 MHz to avoid huge difference in single threaded applications from 350$ worth processors. Tragedy, pure tragedy.
Only logic upgrade for Z97, Z170, Z270 and any i7 for last 5 years I see R7 1800X.
Only he will give you good performance difference as you never had with Intel.
If Intel don;t want, there is who want to give you same speed as i7-6950X for 500$.
Only is question what you want to take that.
AMD Beat in any situation in all segments and Intel is not good option any more no matter on budget.
3 most important things are on AMD side.
1. Faster
2. Cheaper
3. Smaller Power consumption
There is other advantages important as well.
4. No non K models and no sabotage of overclocking Non K models
5. No cheap paste under IHS, all of them are as Sandy Bridge and Intel Xtreme
6. Life time of chipset and socket is always on side of AMD and one socket is compatible sometimes with 3-4-5 years newer processors.
Dictator is Dead!
We used 5 years old performance and lived in false reality, we thought that old architecture almost useless is perfection.
But they drain everything and couldn't improve any more performance except to add cores and decrease clocks and manipulate in circle.
My advice wait Crosshair Extreme, Impact or mATX and upgrade... I would bought 1800X immediately only is question later about motherboard, ROG mATX or ROG E-ATX.
But people could use even Mini ITX.
If someone work something with PC and very rear use PC for gaming he could install 1800X on some small motherboard, add 500W fanless Seasonic and buy RX 480 or wait RX 580.
For same price as i7-6950X could build PC with 1800X, ROG mobo, 32GB DDR4, Samsung 512GB M.2 + 1TB EVO are same price as i7-6950X, even less, there is money for reference RX 480.
That's almost whole PC without HDD with all new stuff.
If I have chance I would change, I would like to see how faster 1800X finish CINEBENCH than my i7-5820K.
Only still no mATX Gene... I look price of Ryzen and if something nice show up, and If I find some money maybe...I could use my memory only need CPU and mobo. For mobo is easier, I could afford that.
