Lure them into your PSU and turn it on!

I've had that problem with this thread for months now. It always loads 7-8 posts earlier than it should.

I doubt prices will go down anytime soon, but look for alternatives, basically other brands, before pulling the plug.

Seriously, that PC of yours is jinxed.

All I can say is good luck and whatever you do, don't upgrade to X299 for now.

Good luck getting rid of those ants!

I might not buy an X board ever agin. It's probably best to just go back to Z whenever the first 6 Core mainstream i7s drop.

Not a bad idea. And wait for the first revisions of those boards may be advisable too.

Intel's process is 14 nm, or at least has a legitimate reason to call itself so. It beat the ITRS rules for 16 nm. It will be behind with their 10 nm, but still, that will be the most complex and dense node on the market for years to come.

There is very likely no Samsung 7 nm process before 2020 at least, since they just released the first generation of 10 nm and pretend to have three of them, before moving to 8 nm on DUV by 2019, and only after then 7 nm.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11337/samsung-and-tsmc-roadmaps-12-nm-8-nm-and-6-nm-added/

Hell, Samsung took three years to release a "10 nm" node barely more dense than Intel's 14 nm, which has almost no interested buyers so far besides themselves and some Snapdragon from Qualcomm (a design desperate to be competitive again), and very likely worse electric properties than Intel's 14 nm, since Intel can afford to sacrifice transistor density to have so.

Global Foundries and TSMC are much closer in density to Intel's 10 nm with their "7 nm" DUV processes, albeit still a little behind, and probably will beat Samsung's 8 nm to the market.  Throwing tons of money at something doesn't mean your product will come ahead of more experienced and equally clever competitors. Ask that to IBM.

Besides, I have a hunch that EUV processes will have to deal with low yields and high costs for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were stuck on risk production for some 2 years or so. Intel seems to agree, since there will be no true 7 nm from them until 2021-2022. DUV will probably be the way to go on the 2018-2021 timeframe.

All I know is I'm about to throw down 50-60 on games during Steam Summer Sale that will keep my backlog status in never catch up mode.

Wow! And I accused Quake of buying too many games during GOG's Sale, and "only" bought something like 30.

Meanwhile, I only got 3 games and one piece of DLC for one of those games.

I bought Doom and The Witness, which means I'm set for Life.

That sucks. How much did you spend on the PC? 

My laptop from 2009 is still going strong. I've a nice new alienware one for work but the DELL i bought 8 years ago never gives me problems. It has an intel i5 and uses windows 7. 

First time I've spent money in a steam sale for years. Got Offworld Trading Company and Golf with your Friends... xD