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vivster said:

JEMC said:

Why is it weird? The i7 8700K was 399€ at launch, so the extra cost of this one doesn't look out of place.

Sure, for an i9 it's cheap, but then this is supposed to be a mid range chip and won't have as many PCI lanes as their bigger brothers.

I don't get all the fuss about lanes. It has full 16 for the GPU and the rest can be done over the main board. I doubt this has much of a performance factor.

If you have a ton of USB ports, filled PCI-E slots, a few SSD's... Those PCI-E lanes can quickly come up short.
For a single GPU the impact when all devices are being pegged shouldn't be significant...

But throw GPU compute and lots of transfers over those busses... And the PCI-E lane count can quickly become a bottleneck.
Throw in AMD's Crossfire which doesn't have a bridge anymore and it can compound the issue.

JEMC said:

vivster said:

Because I thought it's too low. My initial estimate from when the CPU was leaked was $899. Because it's powerful and because it's Intel.

Well, as I said, it's still a mid range product and, if the price you've listed is correct, almost 150€ more than the last top of the range mainstream CPU.

And there's also the fact that while it will be a lot faster, the R7 2700X will be a lot cheaper, so Intel can't ask as much as they want.

Bingo. Competition is a great thing.