Check them out here...WAY expensive
http://promotions.newegg....cwMEBob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ==

Yeah, but shipping is FREE!!
 
You would have to do some serious processing to get one of these..... 

The Broadwell 6800 series look like a much better deal. Clock speeds are still under the 3.5 ghz mark. 

cclarry
Check them out here...WAY expensive
http://promotions.newegg....cwMEBob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ==

That is my summation of Intel. I wish AMD was more relevant and Intel prices could be more competitive.

The 6950X is a hard sell at $1750. 

Jim Roseberry
The 6950X is a hard sell at $1750. 

Video/film editors/production people working to tight deadlines, or someone trying to crack seriously heavy-duty encryption the brute force way and get a result within the lifetime of this universe might find it attractive I suppose.

Me, I'll be waiting until the price drops a bit I think. What I do doesn't even push my sig cpu that hard.

tlw

Jim Roseberry
The 6950X is a hard sell at $1750. 

Video/film editors/production people working to tight deadlines, or someone trying to crack seriously heavy-duty encryption the brute force way and get a result within the lifetime of this universe might find it attractive I suppose.

Me, I'll be waiting until the price drops a bit I think. What I do doesn't even push my sig cpu that hard.

The price rarely drops on those. I doubt they expect high volume sales. The only real point for something like this is bragging rights. Those extra cores would be handy in rendering video.
 
I went away from AMD because of power consumption. This Intel behemoth uses 140 watts. For that kind of dough I'd rather buy an instrument.

tlw
Video/film editors/production people working to tight deadlines, or someone trying to crack seriously heavy-duty encryption the brute force way and get a result within the lifetime of this universe might find it attractive I suppose.

At $1750, many folks will choose to avoid over-clocking.
At stock speed, you'll find that it's not an improvement over a 5820k running at 4.4GHz (which costs about $1400 less.   
 
As far as video rendering (for something like Cinema 4D):
You'd be better off building a second machine with another 5820k running at 4.4GHz... and using TeamRender.
You'd have 12 physical cores (24 processing threads) running at a much higher clock-speed.

AMD's 12 core Opteron costs about 25% of what these cost...
Granted they come in under 3 Ghz...but still...how much is enough?
(Especially at 4 times the price!)

I'm content with my AMD 8 core...it's quite powerful enough...for now...

The pricing appears to be because of their server processors. Intel really charges a ton of their big chips in servers because, well, they can. AMD is uncompetitive so they can charge a ton. They don't want their HEDT processors to cut in to that hence the big price.