[ExI] Intel announces massive 18-core Core i9 chip

[Dylan Distasio]

Current rumor as of today on threadripper pricing is $849.  If that turns
out to be the case, and the other specs are in line, I'm likely going that
route for my impending build.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like a sweet case!  You may want to see where pricing on the AMD 16
> core threadripper comes in also.  I would expect it will be announced
> shortly.
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM, J.R. Jones <mrjones2020 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017, 13:13 John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:26 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ​> ​
>>>> The Core i9 Extreme Edition i9-7980XE, what Intel calls the first
>>>> teraflop desktop PC processor ever, will be priced at (gulp!) $1,999
>>>> when it ships later this year.
>>>
>>>
>>> In a historical context $1,999 is not a lot of money. The world's first
>>> ​ ​
>>> teraflop
>>> ​ ​
>>> Supercomputer was ASCI Red, it went online in 1997 and cost 46 million
>>> dollars. And that was in 1997 dollars, counting inflation that must be
>>> close to 100 million
>>> ​ today​
>>> . So the price dropped from that of one of the most luxurious yachts in
>>> the world to that of a moderately well provisioned rowboat.
>>>
>>> Moore's law
>>> ​ ​
>>> in action.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like I've found the processor for the Thermaltake 900 in white I
>> picked up.
>>
>>>
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