Now we will see why X99 platform was smarter decision.
Because i7-6700K and i7-7700K overclocked will not be able to reach even Ryzen 5 in multi threaded application.
Price and value of Maxmus Extreme and Formula will be reduced significantly.
From other side our 3 years old platform is still alive and we need only CPU change for same or more performance than premium AMD.
Intel x86 domination is over but Intel have space to delay Skylake Xtreme and optimize him nicely and in mean time to start production of Intel i7-6900K and i7-6950X with reduced price.
For 400 and 700$ they will sell 100.000 processors. Their performance improvements after OC is up to 40%.
Many owners have chipset and premium motherboards and memory and need only better CPU.
Owners of i7-5820K, i7-5930K, i7-6800K and i7-6850K will have chance to install 8 and 10 cores.
Better to change only CPU than whole platform. Price of Rampage series will stay similar because they work and with Intel Xeon with far more cores.
We are even in better position, Quad Channel memory and after overclocking Cache frequency our performance will be better than AMD.
We will see... Everything is possible. I vote for delay of Skylake Xtreme and production of 8 and 10 cores Broadwell-EX with competitive price with AMD.
Aaaaa... Haahahaaaa
I'm very smart, Intel could put me as manager I will work on destroying AMDs hype sending performance of overclocked i7-6900K and i7-6950X and their price on Newegg will be
450$ and 650$... Intel X99 re-birth and stabb AMDs Ryzen from back. Name of Topic...
After 3 years STILL DOMINATE Intel Wellsburg - X99 with i7-6900K and i7-6950X.
And that's full experience, it's not only competitive CPU performance, offer everything as newest AMD chipset and more, NVMe, USB 3.1 Gen 2, SATA Express, Quad Channel, faster DDR4, overclocking Cache Frequency, and what customers love most overclocking CPU, performance improvements up to 40% after OC i7-6900K and i7-6950X.