** INTEL SPOOKILY CRAZY CPU PRICES!! **

[Relentless81]

Help us AMD, you are our only hope

 

[pgi947]

I thought that must have been a mistake but just checked the pricing, can't believe how badly priced Skylake is, for an extra 30 odd pound you can pick up an 5930K

Yep, someone's screwing someone somewhere in the purchase chain

And no, it's not usual for pc hardware to be massively cheaper in the states, slightly cheaper yes, dependant on state tax, but massively not. Example a 980ti here with a moderate 6% tax is around £450-ish, 5820k around £270 etc...

 

[Joe!]

Wait what, £389 for a 6700k? So a 6700k + probably the cheapest Z170 board possible is still more than a 5820k + a mid range X99 board?

I saw a lot of people saying X99 was expensive because of the extra £50-60 you had to put on a motherboard but that surely must be gone if a 6700k is £390.

 

[setter]

Wait what, £389 for a 6700k? So a 6700k + probably the cheapest Z170 board possible is still more than a 5820k + a mid range X99 board?

I saw a lot of people saying X99 was expensive because of the extra £50-60 you had to put on a motherboard but that surely must be gone if a 6700k is £390.

The high board price for X99 that gets mentioned is pretty much negated when you look at the price of the 6700k and a board to go with it. My whole X99 setup cost 11 quid more than a 6700k, factor in the sale of my 4790k, board and ram it's been a very cheap up/side grade.

 

[hominid]

When Intel releases new CPU's with a 10-15% speed improvement per generation no wonder people don't want, or feel the need, to upgrade their systems.

I'm still using my 2600K that I got 4 ish years ago and it still plays everything fine. Yes a 6700k will be faster, but to the average person it's imperceivable to see the difference in all but synthetic tests.

I think it's getting to the time where CPU's, and computers in general are commodity items. It's starting to happen with mobile phones too, tablets as well.

Sky lake is a joke on the consumer, we should be on 8 core CPU's now, 16 multithreaded, if Intel did that for the consumer CPU's then people, including me, would lap them up - but no, intel don't want to eat into their server space, and massive profits of those CPU's. Hopefully AMD, with their Zen range, will get this covered.

 

[passey89]

Wait what, £389 for a 6700k? So a 6700k + probably the cheapest Z170 board possible is still more than a 5820k + a mid range X99 board?

I saw a lot of people saying X99 was expensive because of the extra £50-60 you had to put on a motherboard but that surely must be gone if a 6700k is £390.

lol we must be in april.

or someone at intel has been smoking something they shouldn't

 

[Joe!]

The high board price for X99 that gets mentioned is pretty much negated when you look at the price of the 6700k and a board to go with it. My whole X99 setup cost 11 quid more than a 6700k, factor in the sale of my 4790k, board and ram it's been a very cheap up/side grade.

Well on release it held some sort of truth (Z170 for £100-ish + £310 for the 6700k) vs 5820k and the Gigabyte Gaming mobo bundle for £430 - but now, that holds no truth whatsoever.

I'm pretty happy with my 5820k too - Got it for £230 from a competitor and an X99-Pro for £170, so pretty much the same as you.

 

[arc@css]

Help us AMD, you are our only hope

 

[4737Joker]

Launch price was between £299-£319, the supply "issues" can't be so bad they are suddenly somehow costing the end user (on here at least) circa £90 more....and i highly doubt the majority of the 10,000 units sold was at the current rip off price structure haha.

Although its not cheap, the 6700k is £347.94 on a competitor website and isn't even advertised as on sale, £359.99 on another...and why would they reduce the price during a shortage and increase it when they have more stock available? Perhaps it's just me and i'm missing something here.


We really need more competition in this market!

 

[P.B]

good price drop on the 5930k i really dont see whats special about the 6700k vs the 5820k now the prices have gone silly.

 

[Rofflay]

This is what happens to the market when there is no competition. Intel have the fastest product, so they have no need to make a faster one. They'll just keep shuffling the prices and changing the model numbers to make people bite.

Or try to..

People are wise now. I see more people upgrading X58 machines to Xeons than people buying new stuff. What's the point? I just bought an Alienware brand new with a CPU that's also pretty much brand new (5820k) and it's no faster than my old 3970x which was basically a 3930k with more cache and that was released in 2011.

So expect a lot of juggling from Intel. They now need to try and forge a market alone and that's not an easy thing to do. Why would people swap out their CPU board and ram with something practically identical?

They've had their fun beating AMD but now comes the time where their stuff really is a hard sell. Making fun of how much a 2600k beats a 8320 is old hat now and they no longer have any products to tempt people with because people have already bought from them.

Exactly the same thing will happen to Nvidia if AMD die in the GPU sector. They will have no one to take the wee out of and there won't be any bragging rights for the spiteful people that love to gloat (see above in this very thread) so Nvidia's sales will die on their back end.

"Hey every one, I just bought a new Nvidia GPU that's better than the Nvidia GPU I already have !"

No wee taking, no threads of doom.. It'll all be over.

Normally i would want 50% before i plop down the monies. Especially with the base but normally seems to now be GPU too with 120hz. But i think NVMe is a rotten trick all around because it is easy to backport yet wont and to upgrade everything you would only get around 15% in performance...


980 > Pascal is another common sense upgrade. But Sandy to Ivy users and beyond just for NVMe? Hell no rip off.

 

[Nelly]

Someone's being robbed, either retailers are or customers are.

I can get a 6700k locally for $370 (£240), a quick browse of ocUK shows them at £389 ($600).

You could probably import one for less then UK retailer pricing.

Yep, cheaper to import from the states including import duty and tax, it's ridiculous.

Also, Germany must have plenty of stock, the company that owns OcUK i.e. Caseking are selling 6700K for around £323 inc postage to the UK.

I bet Intel have some sort of rebate scheme for volume orders for their clients, like most businesses where you are dealing with large volume purchases in any one year, no different to the Building/Plumbing/Joinery and Electrical/Mechanical Engineering trades, worked in them all, it's no different.

I bet all stock is bought through Caseking in large bulk order as a distributor, then invoiced to OcUK at cost. Loads of profit at the expense of us customers who slug it out for 40+ hours a week lol.

 

[Boomstick777]

Should we expect massive price hike on Broadwell -E / Skylake - E as well?

Oh well my 5930K should last me a long while at least

 

[Ash0787]

I think it's getting to the time where CPU's, and computers in general are commodity items. It's starting to happen with mobile phones too, tablets as well.

Sky lake is a joke on the consumer, we should be on 8 core CPU's now, 16 multithreaded, if Intel did that for the consumer CPU's then people, including me, would lap them up

I have been thinking this too, it doesn't cost a lot now to get a device that does everything that most people want. I dont use mobile communications
but I imagine they are running into innovation problems on that side of things, I heard they already have 4K screens on some of them( possibly OLED not sure ), and the processors are likely powerful enough to run any game that is suitable for the input limitations of a phone

If they did do that with the 8 cores, what would be next ? they would be forced to innovate in some way I suspect ( unless common software adapts to 32 core scenarios ( doubt ) )