40th Anniversary Intel - Core i7-8086K - 5.0GHz+

Random Guy Esq. · 22 Jun 2018 at 15:35

jigger said:
Now see if you can catch the AMD offer. That would be an ultra win.

North America only for that, AFAIK?

8 Pack · 22 Jun 2018 at 16:27

We are just preparing delid and binned 8086K skus now. I personally would not exchange for Threadripper. Its not an upgrade for gaming....

Alexrose1uk · 22 Jun 2018 at 16:32

hedgey said:
Just won one of these in the Intel sweepstake! I guess I can stop looking for a new CPU now lol!!
Buzzing.

Congrats

hedgey · 22 Jun 2018 at 17:24

ltron said:
Congratulations, when did you get the email? It looks like I've lost again unfortunately, was hoping to get an email at the 11th hour.

Just after 1pm.

hedgey · 22 Jun 2018 at 17:38

jigger said:
Now see if you can catch the AMD offer. That would be an ultra win.

US only, first 40. Sticking with Team Blue since its for a gaming rig.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 22 Jun 2018 at 17:40

hedgey said:
US only, first 40. Sticking with Team Blue since its for a gaming rig.

The funny thing is if someone exchanged it for a TR CPU,they could probably sell it,buy a Core i7 8700K and make a profit.

hedgey · 22 Jun 2018 at 17:45

Yea, if I was in the US, I'd probably go for it.

hedgey · 22 Jun 2018 at 17:51

Probably gonna get the 1180 when it ships, since Intel just saved me £389

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 24 Jun 2018 at 12:12

There is noise the Z390 might be cancelled and the Z370 replacing it:

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...nput-everything.2519949/page-58#post-39472971

DarrenM343 · 24 Jun 2018 at 12:19

hedgey said:
Probably gonna get the 1180 when it ships, since Intel just saved me £389

Chicken dinner?

Congrats

Phixsator · 24 Jun 2018 at 12:46

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The funny thing is if someone exchanged it for a TR CPU,they could probably sell it,buy a Core i7 8700K and make a profit.

They could get a new board, ram and 8770k for the price a brand new 1950x would be worth on the 2nd hand market. So the most logical step would be to swap the 8086 for TR unless you are a collector of course. Personally though i would stick with the TR even if its not the fastest possible for low thread count gaming as those 16c32t would last a fair bit and be a solid power house if you do anything else than playing fortnite all day long

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Hotwired · 24 Jun 2018 at 14:12

8 Pack said:
We are just preparing delid and binned 8086K skus now. I personally would not exchange for Threadripper. Its not an upgrade for gaming....

Exchange a £400 cpu for a £650 cpu... sell the £650 cpu and buy the £400 cpu again :eek:

Troezar · 24 Jun 2018 at 15:22

Hotwired said:
Exchange a £400 cpu for a £650 cpu... sell the £650 cpu and buy the £400 cpu again

Exactly!

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 24 Jun 2018 at 15:46

Phixsator said:
They could get a new board, ram and 8770k for the price a brand new 1950x would be worth on the 2nd hand market. So the most logical step would be to swap the 8086 for TR unless you are a collector of course. Personally though i would stick with the TR even if its not the fastest possible for low thread count gaming as those 16c32t would last a fair bit and be a solid power house if you do anything else than playing fortnite all day long .

I have a mini-ITX system,so it would be a tad difficult to install a TR CPU!!

r7slayer · 24 Jun 2018 at 16:45

8 Pack said:
We are just preparing delid and binned 8086K skus now. I personally would not exchange for Threadripper. Its not an upgrade for gaming....

Wouldn't it be worth it for the sake of selling the thread ripper in order to buy one of your binned 8700k or even 8086k if the money stretches? I would!

faceman123 · 24 Jun 2018 at 16:53

I wonder what percentage of 8700k's hit 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 ? and then compare it to 8086k's

Panos · 24 Jun 2018 at 19:22

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have a mini-ITX system,so it would be a tad difficult to install a TR CPU!!

TR would take over the whole board

mATX could do on that aspect also indeed.

But I see no point tbh.
The great strengths of the TR, was the gazillion drives, gpus for rendering etc you can put on it.

Not saying that I wouldn't want an miTX 12 core monster but that has to wait for next year

eddiew · 24 Jun 2018 at 21:41

faceman123 said:
I wonder what percentage of 8700k's hit 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 ? and then compare it to 8086k's

Quick copy pasta from silicon lottery...

As of 6/17/18, the top 92% of tested 8086Ks were able to hit 5.1GHz or greater.
As of 6/17/18, the top 60% of tested 8086Ks were able to hit 5.2GHz or greater.
As of 6/17/18, the top 14% of tested 8086Ks were able to hit 5.3GHz or greater.

As of 6/08/18, the top 50% of tested 8700Ks were able to hit 5.1GHz or greater.
As of 6/08/18, the top 17% of tested 8700Ks were able to hit 5.2GHz or greater.
(None hit 5.3, apparently.)

Which is actually pretty interesting, because that is some serious binning if you want a 5.1 or better! Now I'm really tempted by one... I'm constantly bottlenecked by single-thread speeds, and that might be the fastest I'm going to see for at least 12 months. If not ever. Starting to think the gigahertz race has capped out and we'll never see 6, or even 5.5...

(I wonder what OCUK's premium for a 5.1 will be... no more than £100 over retail and I'm sold, tbqh.)

The Asgard · 25 Jun 2018 at 07:38

GHz is king for games and most work loads. AMD would loose if I had to choose.

shamus21 · 25 Jun 2018 at 10:40

The Asgard said:
GHz is king for games and most work loads. AMD would loose if I had to choose.

It will be a good few years before more cores take over from Ghz just to much old and new software that works so much better with faster Cpu`s (higher GHz)