Don’t buy NEW intel CPU’s.

KungFuSpaghetti · 25 Sep 2019 at 22:47

Don't buy 9900k chips girls and boys, these things cost loads of money.

I'll let you into a secret now... you can buy older Intel's for less money. Yup, straight up. No, this isn't an April fool's, older CPU's astonishingly cost less! Xeon that cost £1000 new, yours for a tenner now! Alternatively, grab a real bargain and get a Cyrix, owners will actually pay you to take them away!

Minstadave · 25 Sep 2019 at 22:49

Mind.....blown! :eek:

Too much truth for one day.

Minibiker · 25 Sep 2019 at 22:49

Thanks for the heads up... I'll keep an eye out for these deals as it's payday soon :cool:

keenan · 25 Sep 2019 at 23:01

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/dont-buy-new-ryzen-cpus.18865981/

:confused:

Lolik · 25 Sep 2019 at 23:06

KungFuSpaghetti said:
Don't buy 9900k chips girls and boys, these things cost loads of money.

I'll let you into a secret now... you can buy older Intel's for less money. Yup, straight up. No, this isn't an April fool's, older CPU's astonishingly cost less! Xeon that cost £1000 new, yours for a tenner now! Alternatively, grab a real bargain and get a Cyrix, owners will actually pay you to take them away!

, on the serious note- we need to start considering buying something from Intel, cause ARM is a bit behind and ALL of us need some competition.

Bluntwrapped · 26 Sep 2019 at 07:37

KungFuSpaghetti said:
Don't buy 9900k chips girls and boys, these things cost loads of money.

I'll let you into a secret now... you can buy older Intel's for less money. Yup, straight up. No, this isn't an April fool's, older CPU's astonishingly cost less! Xeon that cost £1000 new, yours for a tenner now! Alternatively, grab a real bargain and get a Cyrix, owners will actually pay you to take them away!

Way ahead of you man

Still rocking my 3770K.

EssexBoy · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:01

I heard the 2600k are good value for money.

4K8KW10 · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:04

EssexBoy said:
I heard the 2600k are good value for money.

Nah, I think you need to look for the X processors - old 6-core, 8-core, 10-core, etc....

keenan · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:20

We should all go back to LGA1366!

pastymuncher · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:22

Bring back socket 775 and proper overclocking!!

Minibiker · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:24

Who even buys these new CPU's at crazy prices when you can get an older Gen to do the same job :confused:

bimbleuk · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:32

I've had a 6 core 5820K for over 2 years so I'm tempted to go 8 core via AMD so hopefully an OCUK bundle during black Friday will tempt me. Don't need to but I do like to play with new hardware periodically.

When a new platform comes out I have picked up kit from the B grade section as OCUK tend to get rid of old stock on there. Mostly motherboards. Best deals for Intel CPUs are engineering samples from Asia I've had several of them all less than £100.

willhub · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:02

Not to mention all the vulnerabilities, buy Intel CPU, you home gets hacked, your coffee will never taste the same again.

Emlyn_Dewar · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:12

Agree wholeheartedly. Absolute waste to be buying one of these modern CPUs when I could get a socket 478 cpu and board for a threepenny bit.

Steveocee · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:20

It's a dirty trick! @KungFuSpaghetti is trying to starve Intel of sales so they drop the pricing so he can pick up a 9900K for less than an i3!
Take it you've realised that 3900 isn't as good as the i9?

4K8KW10 · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:23

willhub said:
Not to mention all the vulnerabilities, buy Intel CPU, you home gets hacked, your coffee will never taste the same again.

Interesting. I think that good hackers can do the job at any home, regardless of the CPU in-house

KungFuSpaghetti · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:23

Exactly, I'm currently on the hunt for an MMX200 to upgrade my 3900x

Psycho Sonny · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:34

Until intel can make 1 socket that lasts 3-5 generations. then it is game over. there is no way i can be bothered ripping out a mobo every gen and re-wiring it all again. plus the cost of doing all that is never really worth the upgrade.

AMD can't put a foot wrong it seems. Apart from everyone is upset about the fact they can't be overclocked. IMO this is great. No longer do I need to spend 3 years testing, reseting CMOS, running stress tests, just plug and play and be happy it's running as fast as it can. that is also a huge plus for me. more time to do things worth doing.

Steveocee · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:46

Psycho Sonny said:
No longer do I need to spend 3 years testing, reseting CMOS, running stress tests, just plug and play and be happy it's running as fast as it can. that is also a huge plus for me. more time to do things worth doing.

My exact feelings.

robfosters · 26 Sep 2019 at 09:50

KungFuSpaghetti said:
Exactly, I'm currently on the hunt for an MMX200 to upgrade my 3900x

I’m selling my 3900X to fund a new spectrum. No one needs more than 3.5Mhz these days.