NE: Intel 7800X - $310

I think it does. I picked up the Aorus Gaming 3 for $170AR the other day with a free case and PSU. Definitely boards in the ballpark of Z370 if you shop around.
 
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X299 can be in dual or quad. My x299 is in dual channel at the moment. I jumped on the msi sli plus x299 +7800x for 480 +30 mir a couple weeks back.
 
kirbyrj said:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117793&cm_re=7800x-_-19-117-793-_-Product

Kind of makes you wonder why you'd overpay to go Coffee Lake.
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Check reviews and you'll see why, there's something very wrong with this chip, it often performs worse than 6-core Haswell-E and Broadwell-E despite higher overall clockspeeds and much worse than Coffeelake of course. With TIM instead of solder on HEDT its actually a downgrade for folks already on older HEDT gens.

The 7820X 8-core and higher don't regress in IPC like this chip does, worth taking a look before buying.
 
I'm looking for reviews that show that in particular. I looked at a couple (bit-tech and Anandtech) and they didn't show anything "very wrong." It outperforms the 5960X which had two more cores in the reviews I've seen. Most things I've seen have said that they were impressed by the OC headroom of the 7800X compared to previous generations.

X299 is obviously still a mixed bag depending on your situation.
 
thecold said:
X299 can be in dual or quad. My x299 is in dual channel at the moment. I jumped on the msi sli plus x299 +7800x for 480 +30 mir a couple weeks back.
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I cam close to pulling the trigger on that but the reviews on the board were pretty bad. Ended up going used and grabbed a 5820k from here. This is a sweet price though, very tempting.
 
kirbyrj said:
I'm looking for reviews that show that in particular. I looked at a couple (bit-tech and Anandtech) and they didn't show anything "very wrong." It outperforms the 5960X which had two more cores in the reviews I've seen. Most things I've seen have said that they were impressed by the OC headroom of the 7800X compared to previous generations.

X299 is obviously still a mixed bag depending on your situation.
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The main differences are in gaming but it also falls inexplicably behind the 7820X core fore core and clock for clock despite being same chip/arch/platform:

https://www.techspot.com/review/1497-intel-core-i7-8700k/page3.html

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1450/bench/Average.png

With the difference in platform cost for X299, depending on what you mainly use your PC for you might be better off going with 8700K and paying more for the CPU as HEDT in this case doesn't have much of an advantage in PCIe lanes and no longer has HEDT solder advantage.

If you are looking at HEDT, the 7820X was $450 recently which would be close enough in price to $310 for a real upgrade over 6 cores that have been available for years.
 
chizow said:
The main differences are in gaming but it also falls inexplicably behind the 7820X core fore core and clock for clock despite being same chip/arch/platform:

https://www.techspot.com/review/1497-intel-core-i7-8700k/page3.html

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1450/bench/Average.png

With the difference in platform cost for X299, depending on what you mainly use your PC for you might be better off going with 8700K and paying more for the CPU as HEDT in this case doesn't have much of an advantage in PCIe lanes and no longer has HEDT solder advantage.

If you are looking at HEDT, the 7820X was $450 recently which would be close enough in price to $310 for a real upgrade over 6 cores that have been available for years.
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I didn't realize these were not soldered, man that's weak of Intel.
 
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