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Black friday deals?

Shoot... I booked Black Friday off but will be working 'til 7 on Thursday... Going to have to try and order from my desk and hope that I'm not called into any meetings!

I know what I want, I'm more worried about the bits I need going Out of Stock than the savings haha :D
 
i7 is way to go nexus.. i went from a i5 2500K @ 5ghz to a i7 2600K at 4.4 and tbh the i7 feels so much faster..
 
setter said:
All non soldered chips on mainstream now, hence the higher temperatures.
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Ah I see. Will probably upgrade to a better CPU cooler at some point in the next year anyway. Currently rocking a gelid tranquillo rev. 2 + akassa apache 120mm fan with thermal grizzly paste.

Westie said:
i7 is way to go nexus.. i went from a i5 2500K @ 5ghz to a i7 2600K at 4.4 and tbh the i7 feels so much faster..
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Yeah definitely going with i7 :) Just need to decide which platform! :p
 
setter said:
Having very recently switched from a 4790k at 4.7ghz to a currently at stock 5820k. For games im not seeing much difference tbh. Tested a quick oc of 4.5ghz on the 5820k, runs a lot cooler in games compared to the 4790k. 76c max on the latter as opposed to 64c max on the former.
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Skylake is a generational leap over Haswell. The 6600k/6700k run cooler than Haswell did, making any comparison between the 4790k and 5820k temperature wise pointless.
 
Dave2150 said:
Skylake is a generational leap over Haswell. The 6600k/6700k run cooler than Haswell did, making any comparison between the 4790k and 5820k temperature wise pointless.
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Tbh Dave, the gains from skylake over haswell aren't massive. Pretty much the same as 3770k-4770k-4790k, (all of which I've owned). Kabylake will be to skylake what devils canyon was to haswell. As for the temp comparison, obviously being a soldered chip temps aren't as big an issue with the 5820k, but as its a hex core and uses more power. I'm still pleasantly surprised at how cool it runs.
 
setter said:
I wasn't expecting to see a Samsung sub £100.00 tbh, and not that fussed on assassins creed. Currently got a 250gb ssd for a few games along with the os. Thinking of buying battlefront but as my main drive is nearly full, I'm loath to install a game id play regularly on a mechanical drive.
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They were selling at £90 elsewhere recently without any need to sell part of a bundle to hit the price. Kinda eliminated the niche for e.g. the BX100 when the sammy is faster, cheaper, better warranty...
 
Is there a chance that any of the gaming chairs will be on sale Gibbo?

I could do with a new one... My current is a car seat bolted to an office chair base. Really comfy but now quite noisey
 
David Bisset said:
They were selling at £90 elsewhere recently without any need to sell part of a bundle to hit the price. Kinda eliminated the niche for e.g. the BX100 when the sammy is faster, cheaper, better warranty...
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Yeah the Samsung 850 Evo 500GB sold out within 3 hours at that price, I managed to grab one. :cool:
 
FionnMcC said:
That's the plan, but a few weeks a go some of the 980s were quite reasonable ish and I was close to pulling the trigger but was holding off for black Friday. Now I'm thinking even with BF I will be paying over the odds!
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Even the black friday deals won't be enough to bring down the 980 price. I would just pay the extra for the Ti version instead. With pascal around the corner though I would just go for 970 then upgrade to pascal. That's what I'm doing.
 
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