Jimster480
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Engineers are better?9900K pricing was announced today and boy it’s expensive. My prediction is that it reviewers will slam it for its price but despite this it will sell like no tomorrow. Because reviewers don’t understand that not everyone out there are value buyers. A Renault is better value for money than a BMW but driving enthusiasts would pay more for the BMW because it’s a better vehicle. Same thing goes on in the CPU world. Why have AMD when you can have Intel?
Of course regarding this, Intel will exaggerate the results, they have a poor marketing department clearly. It may not be 50% faster but it’s still faster as they have better engineers and that’s what’s important. Far more important than price when it comes to flagship products anyway. Value buyers will go further down the product stack on either manufacturer. Although I’m sure the 2700X will now be considered a budget part in the face of these new prices.
Uhhhhhh no, they just OC'd the fck out of the chips from the factory and then BS'd a fake TDP (since its only at 3.6ghz) and then unveil a new motherboard with monster VRM's to be able to handle this insane TDP. Which will also require beefy cooling no doubt.