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5820K price drop when Skylakes appear?

jamieboo

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Going to be building a new machine soon, and I'm looking at the 5820K.
I'm not particularly savvy with market trends for components and such, but I was wondering is the price for the 5820K likely to drop when Skylake cpus come out next month?
 
Yes, that's what I was wondering. Skylake are 4 core so possibly not a direct competitor/replacement. But I still wondered if it might push down 5820K prices simply in a 'new generation pushing down previous generation' type way.
 
I very much doubt any price drop will be seen on X99 CPU when Skylake drops.

The 5820k represents great value for money at its current price.
 
Got my 5820k befor Christmas , if anything it's getting more expensive , think it's about 30 quid more then I paid then . I assume that's down to currency trends etc somewhat but either way they hold there value very well and that's especially true as Intel havnt been releasing anything with any real performance benefits over there previous generations . There more so targeting efficiancy and IGPU for there mainstream CPUs
 
Shivy011 said:
I've no idea, but did Ivy-E drop when Haswell launched?
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You could get a 4770k and a 4820k for roughly the same price at the time but they carried the same core config as thee 4770k , if skylake sticks to 4 cores still on the mainstream platform I don't think a 5820k will drop befor Intel kill it
 
Thanks for the replies folks!
What about price trends generally when a significant new piece of tech like Skylake comes out?
I mean should I start ordering my components now?
Maybe the opposite of my initial query is possible? I mean is there a chance the price of DDR4 RAM (for example) will go up when Skylake debuts?
Basically, Windows 10 is released in a week, Skylake in 2 weeks. Would it be wise to wait for these two because there's a chance some component prices might drop? Or is the smarter move start buying now as the new players might push prices up?
Thanks again!
 
In general prices for stuff dip before the release of a successor (clearing bulk of old stock) then go back up at release (makes new stuff look better) then over time gets more expensive (supply goes away).

Obviously lots of other factors too, like exchange rates etc, but that's the pattern I see most.

Edit: releases for successor parts I mean, rivals releasing stuff can cause price drops depending on their prices, performance etc.
 
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So, to summarise, would my best bet be to go ahead and start buying the components for my X99 build today rather than wait a couple of weeks?!
 
I've been waiting on a price drop for the GTX970 since launch. It hasn't had one so I'm not getting one :D
 
The 5820K has already dropped by a decent amount in the last few months, if you're going to buy it then you might as well do it now. It will still hold it's own in performance for another few years at least, seeing as Skylake is not much of an improvement over Haswell or Broadwell. Skylake-E won't be coming until 2016 I think.
 
For the most part it is just better as it has more PCIE lanes therefore better multi card support. Apart from that, there isn't much in it!
 
Shivy011 said:
For the most part it is just better as it has more PCIE lanes therefore better multi card support. Apart from that, there isn't much in it!
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Ah right oh, so if you using M.2 and dual gpus would it make more sense to use the 5930K then? I'm toying with X99 Sabertooth to buy and just found this on the Hexus review....

Three mechanical x16 slots work electrically at the full x16 for 40-lane CPUs (Core i7-5960X and 5930K) and x16/x8/x4 for the popular 5820K.

Releasing the board later than other X99s gives Asus the opportunity of adding USB 3.1 support by way of an ASMedia chip. The M.2 slot, also used for the newest generation of drives, connects to the system via PCIe Gen 3 x4. Knowing this, the third PCIe x16 slot shares the same bandwidth so both cannot be used concurrently.

Thanks for reply :) Re reading that, it only seems to matter if I wanted to use third pcie and M.2 which I don't so 5820K would be ok? Am I getting that correct?
 
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To be honest I think intel undercut themselves a little with the 5820k, it's a steal at that price.

Guess they are running out of price points to shove CPU's, haha.
 
colinmcr said:
Ah right oh, so if you using M.2 and dual gpus would it make more sense to use the 5930K then? I'm toying with X99 Sabertooth to buy and just found this on the Hexus review....

Three mechanical x16 slots work electrically at the full x16 for 40-lane CPUs (Core i7-5960X and 5930K) and x16/x8/x4 for the popular 5820K.

Releasing the board later than other X99s gives Asus the opportunity of adding USB 3.1 support by way of an ASMedia chip. The M.2 slot, also used for the newest generation of drives, connects to the system via PCIe Gen 3 x4. Knowing this, the third PCIe x16 slot shares the same bandwidth so both cannot be used concurrently.

Thanks for reply :) Re reading that, it only seems to matter if I wanted to use third pcie and M.2 which I don't so 5820K would be ok? Am I getting that correct?
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You are correct there, as long as you go up to 2 gpus and an M.2 you should be fine and actually better than doing the same with a z97 cpu. If you wanted 3+ GPUs and an M.2 then you would need to go for the other 2 Haswel-E processors though.
 
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