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Anyone predicting Skylakes to drop in price before/during/after kabylake launch? I'm upgrading and considering 6700k. Maybe black Friday?
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Predicted Skylake price drops?
- Thread starter CaptainShiznit
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Intel drop prices....
Intel don't usually drop retail prices at all. They just bring out the new stuff at the same price (or very similar) to the old stuff.
You'll only get discounts in the form of folks upgrading their stuff and selling second hand.
You'll only get discounts in the form of folks upgrading their stuff and selling second hand.
That's what I'm noticing as a current trend
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Predicted hell freezing over?
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Not a chance, you may be lucky with a one day sale somewhere, possibly £15 off. But all that's going to happen is the stock will dry up and Intel will release the there next line (I forgot the name)
As already stated intel don't drop their prices for processor's that are eol generally. They just allow the stock to run down allowing residual demand for chips to keep up a low level of sales.
Historically the best time to buy an intel cpu (ignoring any batch / stepping improvements for overclocking purposes) has been on release! To get the most out of them cos they don't generally drop in price (in us $)
- 6700k's for example have fluctuated from about £270- nearly £400 aa a result of shortages in the retail channel causing resellers to up their prices and fluctuations on the £/$ rate
As you can see from this review from 2015 and intel's website the recommended price for the 6700k hasn't really budged in us $.... ($350)
Same story with the 4790k
http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz
http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed
http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
Historically the best time to buy an intel cpu (ignoring any batch / stepping improvements for overclocking purposes) has been on release! To get the most out of them cos they don't generally drop in price (in us $)
- 6700k's for example have fluctuated from about £270- nearly £400 aa a result of shortages in the retail channel causing resellers to up their prices and fluctuations on the £/$ rate
As you can see from this review from 2015 and intel's website the recommended price for the 6700k hasn't really budged in us $.... ($350)
Same story with the 4790k
http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz
http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed
http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
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Yup.
I plan to buy the 7700k and a Z270 motherboard immediately on release.
...Although I MIGHT wait to see what Zen is like too, if Kaby Lake is December and Zen is January...
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I had hopes that 4770k/4790k would drop when Skylake was released. It happened once or twice that I have seen £10~ off on quite few retailers sites. It remained pricey, and so I ended up buying OEM through eBay (though 6700k as it was pretty much same price as Haswell version).
So no reduced to clearance pricing for CPUs really...
So no reduced to clearance pricing for CPUs really...
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This is Intel's reaction to you not being able to afford their expensive CPUs
Soldato
Even then you would be lucky. So many will stick with Intel anyway
Soldato
Price drops on Intel processors? Lol, no chance.