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

What's availability meant to be like for these? Is it a case of one batch and when they're gone they're gone or will be they be around for a while?
 
Doop! said:
What's availability meant to be like for these? Is it a case of one batch and when they're gone they're gone or will be they be around for a while?
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They've said 50,000 worldwide. Not sure how many the UK gets (we only got 6% of the sweepstake allocation). The only data I could find showed a German retailer selling ~3,000 i7-8700Ks per month at the beginning of the year (which coincidentally is 6% of 50,000).
 
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my rig is mostly blue but to be honest you can hardly see the mobo and there is no window so I wasn't too fussed on how it looks so I opted it on price and features. I'm a gigabyte fan but opted for Asus as Ive seen the Gigabyte z370 boards have a few issues.
 
humbug said:
The 8086 was also made by AMD under licence for IBM, Until Intel illegally reneged on that contract which forced AMD to make their own X86 designs that ended up better than Intel's .....
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Are you referring to when AMD changed to using their own chipsets which weren't pin compatible or prior to that?
 
smilingcrow said:
Are you referring to when AMD changed to using their own chipsets which weren't pin compatible or prior to that?
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Way before.

When AMD made far superior and far cheaper CPUs than Intel.
Like the AMD 386DX40 which was (as you quess) 21% faster than the Intel 386DX33. Or the 486DX80/120 when Intel best offering was at 66Mhz lol.
And always at much less price.
 
fozza_99 said:
Im looking to pass my 6700k build to my son. So Looking to get a new cpu/mb/ram. Whats the difference with the letters on the strix boards?
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Before you make a decision and bypass some boards.
I have the Z370I, the first mITX board ever bought and possibly the best board ever, with the most stable and easy overclock also. By far I recommend this one if someone doesn't want 100 USB ports and dozen M.2s.
Upgrade to latest bios and you are set.

And I have bought some pretty expensive boards with "overclocking" in mind over the years X58 Rampage III Extreme, X79 Rampage IV, Gigabyte X99, Asrock Z170 Extreme 4.
Yes the latter is bonkers with de-humidifier etc but still. Nothing beats the Z370-I. Overclocking the 8600K was simply very easy at 5.2Ghz initially with 4Ghz Ring, but settled to 5.1Ghz and 4.9Ghz ring. (1.39v)
Ram also. Took the 3600C15 ram to 4133C17 without issue.

The dual channel Wifi is superb also. By far the best receiver (max) ever had at this house, because the router is in the living room downstairs and behind closed doors.
 
Panos said:
Way before.

When AMD made far superior and far cheaper CPUs than Intel.
Like the AMD 386DX40 which was (as you quess) 21% faster than the Intel 386DX33. Or the 486DX80/120 when Intel best offering was at 66Mhz lol.
And always at much less price.
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I upgraded my 486DX33 (Intel) to a 486 DX2-80 (AMD) back in the day. It was a case of setting some jumpers on the motherboard to get the 40MHz bus clock. Also it required some force as the sockets were not ZIF. Was a decent upgrade though at the time.
 
Used to run and overclock many old intel and amd 386 and 486 stuff, amds dx4 doing 120+ mhz was the fastest.
Didnt ever have many 286s but plenty of work fixing 8086s machines in amstrad 1512s and 1640s.
 
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