marc2003 said:

A quick look at current Haswell pricing will tell you not to get your hopes up.

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And with the state the pound is in...Not going to happen unfortunately.

No chance in hell of price drops.

I expect Haswell to disappear from retailers soon though, DDR3 systems are old hat now after all.

If you take a look at the second hand price on a well known auction site for Z97 mobo's and i74790k's
I would say that waiting for a price drop on any intel cpu is wishful thinking.
You may save 10 or 20 quid but is that really worth waiting for

I feel like the overriding lesson from this thread is "always buy the most expensive thing you can afford right now, because upgrading later won't be any cheaper"...

Not sure how I feel about that, but at least the next time I do upgrade, I'll get an i7 so's not to be stuck in the cycle of regret

eddiew said:

I feel like the overriding lesson from this thread is "always buy the most expensive thing you can afford right now, because upgrading later won't be any cheaper"...

Not sure how I feel about that, but at least the next time I do upgrade, I'll get an i7 so's not to be stuck in the cycle of regret

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Well no, not at all. This has only been true with Intel CPUs in the last ~5 years.

Pretty much everything else has continued to get better/cheaper over time, so waiting would have been worth it.

And now AMD are about to launch Zen CPUs, hopefully competition will be back in the CPU space, and EVERYTHING will once again get significantly better/cheaper over time.

AMD can't do anything in the CPU market to force down Intel prices. We have more chance of Intel increasing prices further.

Ive had been watching and hoping the price of the 4790k would drop but its still stayed level with the 6700k so nope... I dont see any price drops coming..

if for some mad reason the 4790k was to drop to half price I might snap one up to see if it would overclock better than my 4770k but right now im happy with what Ive got

The only way is up for the foreseeably future. Just keep an eye out for special offers or black Friday is your best bet.

What about Cyber Monday?

That age-old British tradition?

The only way your getting skylake on the cheap is 2nd hand off someone who moving on to to the next enthusiast 6 core CPUs, and I can't see too many people doing that

They are dropping slowly. When I was looking the 6700K was holding around £360 and if you look around you can get some great deals on the 4790k now.

Intel is competing with themselves at the moment. Very little has progressed in 5 years so people are buying older, cheaper CPUs rather than the latest ones.

If you shop around you can find 6700ks as low as £275 at the moment. I got mine for £270 on another site but that was a while ago.

I can't find a 6700k for much below £320.

I read Kaby Lake will replace Skylake so will Skylake be EOL?

Don't expect anything to drop in price unless they drop by more than 20% in the States or EU.

I was hoping for price drop as well, maybe Black Friday will bring some deals.

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They are dropping slowly. When I was looking the 6700K was holding around £360 and if you look around you can get some great deals on the 4790k now.

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at times I wish I held out for a 4790k but I got the 4770k at a cracking price.

I will be building another 1150 system soon as ive got an i5 4590 sitting and have a board coming. This will replace my lads FX8350 system so through time I can keep my eyes open for a 4790k