Decent price I reckon for the new Intel Skylake CPU's if you are planning on building a high end PC with overclocking.
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Link to specs page from Intel website
http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Proc…
Depends on purpose. What are you going to use it for?
Do note that this is also the 'K' version, means you will be overclocking this.
mostly gaming, i do think the i7 is a bit overkill for the intended purpose. i5 should suffice? with a decent graphic card?
An i5 is more than enough. Even picking up a Haswell i5 will last you for a number of years, plus you can get much cheaper DDR3 instead of having to go DDR4.
A i5 4690k (can even go the non k version if you don't want to overclock) would be perfect, and putting the extra into a better video card would give you much greater performance.
You could go with Haswell i5, but seeing that the price is close, just go with newer Skylake.
CPU: Intel Core i5 6400 $269
Mobo: ASRock H170M-Pro4 $155
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4-2133 $86
SSD: Samsung Evo Pro 250GB $139
GPU: 4GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 $489 / 8GB R9 390(Better with DX12)
Case: (insert your case of choice)
PSU: Antec VPF-550 $89 (970) / Seasonic G-650 (390)
the K i7's come with a noticeable bump in clock-rate now though. So it's no longer just for people wanting to overclock.
I didn't overclock my processor because I only really wanted around 4.0Ghz, and believe it or not last year's devils canyon was intel's first cpu to break into the 4.0ghz speed at stock.
At least $1.5k if you are looking to get decent graphic card.
High end is well over $2000 including a monitor.
Can someone please tell me of something productive that can be done with this type of high end CPU without the user needing to be present? For example, bitcoin mining?
how much would it cost approx to build a high-end computer that complements this cpu?