Online Retailer Tips Potential Pricing for Intel's Haswell-E Processors

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

Take these prices with a grain of salt

It's a bit early to go shopping for Intel's Haswell-E parts, though that doesn't mean you can't start planning your back-to-school build, especially if you can find the prices of upcoming parts. While Haswell-E CPUs are expected to debut in September, at least one online retailer in the U.S. has gone and posted pricing information for three upcoming SKUs, all of which are available to pre-order.
A shout out goes to CPU-World for discovering the pre-order parts on on Shopblt.com. At the time of this writing, here are the Haswell-E parts and prices the e-tailer is pushing:

• Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition (8-core, 3.5GHz, 20MB cache): $1,107.83
• Intel Core i7 5930K (6-core, 3.7GHz, 15MB cache): $631.54
• Intel Core i7 5820K (6-core, 3.6GHz, 15MB cache): $425.92

Intel's first-ever 8-core desktop processor (5960X) is priced at $1,107.83 at Shopblt, which is $16 more than the 4960X in the same store. Expensive, sure, but not a bad price difference for two additional cores, more L2 cache, more memory bandwidth, and general architecture improvements.
Meanwhile, both six-core chips are priced somewhat competitively with the processors they're replacing -- the 5930K is $49 more than the 4930K, and the 5820K is $80 more than 4820K in the same store.
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