Bargain on i7 8700k

okas · 18 Sep 2018 at 20:03

New i7 8700k is for £303 right now
is it wort buying considering that im not upgrading but going with a new build. I am using cheap laptop right now.
Or should I wait for the release of 9th gen ? I really like the price on i7 8700k though
Please let me know what are your thoughts

Rig will be used for gaming primarly.

Kelt · 18 Sep 2018 at 20:32

Personally I wouldn't be buying a chip that's over-heated by using toothpaste, no sir, not supporting that crud.

Skynet5 · 18 Sep 2018 at 21:53

It's a good price, the shine was taken off that chip imo.

9 series will be 450 at least at launch due to price gouging. If you're not happy with that price then go for it.

Personally I'm waiting ... And waiting
....

chaparral · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:36

It price is £399 when I look :confused:

esiemi · 19 Sep 2018 at 01:00

chaparral said:
It price is £399 when I look

probably a competitor

, they sell for £303 but they been out of stock for ages and even if they get new stock they raise the price as its almost £400 most places that actually got them in stock

okas · 19 Sep 2018 at 09:45

Would it be wise to wait for the release of 9th gen and buy used i7 7700k for cheaper?
I really won't make use of more than 2 cores in windows anyway.

KentMan · 19 Sep 2018 at 09:57

okas said:
Would it be wise to wait for the release of 9th gen and buy used i7 7700k for cheaper?
I really won't make use of more than 2 cores in windows anyway.

Then just buy the highest clocked 8 series like the 8600k, job done

pandem0nium · 19 Sep 2018 at 11:27

The current stock of 8700Ks are probably 8086K binning rejects. They're probably not going to be good clockers like the early batches of the CPU.

joedeath332 · 19 Sep 2018 at 11:34

lnoton said:
It's a good price, the shine was taken off that chip imo.

9 series will be 450 at least at launch due to price gouging. If you're not happy with that price then go for it.

Personally I'm waiting ... And waiting
....

Any idea yet on when the 9 series will be released
As I'm looking at a new decent cpu to go with possibly a 2080ti in a month or so time and i was thinking of a 8700k, what's wrong with these chips?

Skynet5 · 19 Sep 2018 at 11:51

joedeath332 said:
Any idea yet on when the 9 series will be released
As I'm looking at a new decent cpu to go with possibly a 2080ti in a month or so time and i was thinking of a 8700k, what's wrong with these chips?

Last I heard was beginning of October. Not sure of demand or supply on whether you'd need to preorder.

Skynet5 · 19 Sep 2018 at 11:56

pandem0nium said:
The current stock of 8700Ks are probably 8086K binning rejects. They're probably not going to be good clockers like the early batches of the CPU.

True. Unless they are still making them?

okas · 19 Sep 2018 at 11:58

I think I will go with used ryzen 5 2400g for up to £100 and place it in a premium motherboard and then upgrade to zen 2 or zen2+. It seems like the best idea right now.

Troezar · 19 Sep 2018 at 12:40

okas said:
I think I will go with used ryzen 5 2400g for up to £100 and place it in a premium motherboard and then upgrade to zen 2 or zen2+. It seems like the best idea right now.

Sounds like a sensible plan. I'm planning something similar with Threadripper.

Tee Hee Johnson · 25 Sep 2018 at 12:38

okas said:
New i7 8700k is for £303 right now
is it wort buying considering that im not upgrading but going with a new build. I am using cheap laptop right now.
Or should I wait for the release of 9th gen ? I really like the price on i7 8700k though
Please let me know what are your thoughts

Rig will be used for gaming primarly.

If you can genuinely get it for that price, do it!

jonnylaris · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:10

Good luck finding it for under £450. I'm trying to buy it right now but far too dear everywhere.

MartinPrince · 25 Sep 2018 at 18:20

okas said:
I think I will go with used ryzen 5 2400g for up to £100 and place it in a premium motherboard and then upgrade to zen 2 or zen2+. It seems like the best idea right now.

Probably sensible if funds are any kind of factor. What GPU/Monitor setup will you be using it with?

PhilvRS · 1 Oct 2018 at 10:27

Similar situation to the OP, I've ordered one expecting delivery 15th Oct and they've disappeared from that retailer now, so looks like supply is going to be an ongoing issue.
I would have gone Ryzen like most others but I'd already had the motherboard delivered so decided to wait it out.

shamus21 · 2 Oct 2018 at 08:09

PhilvRS said:
Similar situation to the OP, I've ordered one expecting delivery 15th Oct and they've disappeared from that retailer now, so looks like supply is going to be an ongoing issue.
I would have gone Ryzen like most others but I'd already had the motherboard delivered so decided to wait it out.

Good luck on that one this side of Christmas it looks like stock at that pricing is exhausted plus a few Box shifters were a bit slow with keeping up with the news on Intel supply problem (Price-fixing) So they ended up selling before they realised they could jack up the price on old stock.

MaxOverdrive · 4 Oct 2018 at 16:39

Tee Hee Johnson said:
If you can genuinely get it for that price, do it!

That was Amazon's price a number of weeks back. I see they are about 50% more than that now...wow!

I purchased one about a month ago when it would appear that stocks were more plentiful. Personally, after seeing the i7-9700K early benchmarks and finding it's marginally better than the i7-8700k, I'm sticking with 8th gen for now. Nice to see that, for a change, the Intel (Z370) boards support 9th gen at least!

signal11th · 5 Oct 2018 at 11:52

MaxOverdrive said:
That was Amazon's price a number of weeks back. I see they are about 50% more than that now...wow!

I purchased one about a month ago when it would appear that stocks were more plentiful. Personally, after seeing the i7-9700K early benchmarks and finding it's marginally better than the i7-8700k, I'm sticking with 8th gen for now. Nice to see that, for a change, the Intel (Z370) boards support 9th gen at least!

Yeah I'm waiting to see specs/price of the 9900 and see if its worth upgrading.. no way on earth I'm upgrading at the moment the way the prices are.