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Sampsy · 3 Jan 2017 at 18:50

The entire Kaby Lake launch is a great advertisement for AMD.

karik666 · 3 Jan 2017 at 18:51

i7 7700k is $305 = £298 incl vat

jorzeh · 3 Jan 2017 at 18:52

7700K for sure, Just seen a build on U tubs

SiDeards73 · 3 Jan 2017 at 18:55

Read the review above, pretty sad reading in all honesty

Definitely can't wait to see Zen now

Minstadave · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:00

Wow that's disappointing.

Waiting for Skylake-E or Zen then.

Jumper118 · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:00

karik666 said:
i7 7700k is $305 = £298 incl vat

you are missing about 17% there.

karik666 · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:02

Jumper118 said:
you are missing about 17% there.

Thats £348 then

jigger · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:02

stephenb said:
^^ I guess we'll find out on Thursday. I would imagine in the ball park of where they have been before, allowing for the fall in exchange rates. Maybe £800 for CPU, motherboard, memory and 240/280 AIO cooler.

No chance people will pay £800 for a quad core system. Not even if it hit 5.5Ghz stock volts.

jigger · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:03

Jumper118 said:
you are missing about 17% there.

You can pick up a 6700K for about that. Though you can also get a 4790K for a bit less.

malachi · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:04

Jumper118 said:
you are missing about 17% there.

Also know has the "devalued pound tax"

Talking £340 to £380 for this CPU.

varkanoid · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:08

malachi said:
Also know has the "devalued pound tax"

Talking £340 to £380 for this CPU.

and a lot more for the OCUK delidded one.

jigger · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:11

malachi said:
Also know has the "devalued pound tax"

Talking £340 to £380 for this CPU.

Thats a hard sell seeing you can have the same performance for much less and it's barley worth anyone upgrading from a 2600K.

karik666 · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:13

Last time i upgraded my pc Aug 2009.

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
CP-280-IN
1
£201.99*

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
MB-155-GI
1
£190.99*

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) + 3D Mark Vantage Benchmarking Software
MY-017-PA
1
£86.99*

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366)
HS-005-NC
1
£57.99*

Total came to £557.80 incl delivery. from ocuk.

Must admit i didnt realise i had paid so much for the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5,but its been flawless for the last 7 years.

malachi · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:14

jigger said:
Thats a hard sell seeing you can have the same performance for much less and it's barley worth anyone upgrading from a 2600K.

Yep but this is Intel we are about...an Intel CPU being sold in the UK. The 6700k is already £338 on here. So it would be on sale for more.

pastymuncher · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:16

Is it just me or is overclocking becoming largely irrelevant these days? Haswell wasn't exactly a good clocker, Skylake even less so and Kabylake looks to be even worse. Even if all 7770k's could hit 5Ghz (which they won't) that's only a 800mhz boost over the base clock and 500mhz over the turbo clock. That's just rubbish yet they (Intel) charge extra for a unlocked k series cpu which could be a abysmal clocker or, if you are extremely lucky, a very rare golden chip. The glory days of overclocking when you could get up to double the clockspeed out of a cpu are long gone. Maybe AMD will give us some hope with Zen and it will be highly overclockable. Not that it will be anytime soon, but when the time comes to do a upgrade of this cpu/mobo/ram I will really have to think about whether it's actually worth paying the extra for a unlocked cpu.

karik666 · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:17

The 4790k cpu is £369 on ocuk.
To me thats insane.

Deathroned · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:18

Dave2150 said:
X99 is far more expensive and is slower for most games, due to Haswell/Broadwell being an old architecture and 99% of games not using more than 4 cores.

please stop spreading misinformation. it is the same thing with 4 way sli.

Martini1991 · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:18

karik666 said:
The 4790k cpu is £369 on ocuk.
To me thats insane.

It's EOL so that price isn't "real" as such.
Still shouldn't be that high. 4790K came ages before we tanked our economy, so it shouldn't be affected by brexit.

southernorth · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:19

I reckon the de-lidded & binned i7 7700k's will be around £400, which is mental if anywhere near that

Deathroned · 3 Jan 2017 at 19:20

~>Dg<~ said:
slower is some older games newer games its level or games that use the extra cores better.also rest of system is quite a bit quicker on x99 platform.

new amd chips and more cores are the way now.bf1 is better on more cores.

Stop spreading lies, are you people paid to post lies.

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