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Core 9000 series

Oh anyone expecting these to drop in price 2 months later, read what Gibbo said, AMD chips will increase in price... Why? Because Intel won't be Churning out any meaningful volume potentially into next year, that's a good enough reason to mark up available AMD chips.

Don't expect Intel chips to reduce In price until next year imho.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Oh anyone expecting these to drop in price 2 months later, read what Gibbo said, AMD chips will increase in price... Why? Because Intel won't be Churning out any meaningful volume potentially into next year, that's a good enough reason to mark up available AMD chips.

Don't expect Intel chips to reduce In price until next year imho.
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I'm not in any rush, I can wait till 2019.
 
icehot666 said:
If you're right, that would be disappointing. AMD have a prime opportunity here to release a new flagship to their current range.
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They can't just magic something out of thin air lol, we would have seen another Ryzen by now If so.

They only needed to wait for Intel to show their hand with 9 series to know what the benchmark is.

Intel will either respin 14nm again or they will pray that their 10nm is fixed, as I've said befre I expect Intel to have to refine 10nm a couple of times before they pass their current 14nm stuff, infact I expect the 4700x or zen2 refresh if you like, to be on the shelves before Intel has a 10nm desktop chip that beats the 9900k
 
If I want to go intel, where do I go from here? Sadly I really want the option of Dolphin/CEMU... so is the 8700k my only option for a decent price point. Or is the 9700k a better option?

This is scuh a bummer.
 
DrCheese said:
yeah... looking at PC Partpicker the 8700k started around £550 then crashed down to around £400 a few months after.

I don't know, I'm torn. I've saved up for quite a while for this :/
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It started something like £350, was out of stock and went up fast so dont use that as a reference ;)

Kieran said:
I bought the 8700k from OcUK at £359 at release.
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Same, which is basically an 8086 as the first lot were high clockers for sure!
 
While I expected prices to be high I didn't think they would be this high. I wouldn't have bought one at the £450 for the 9700k and £550-580 for the 9900k let alone a eye watering £500 and £600!! As usual we are being asked to pay more than anybody else. Then there's this pre-order before any reviews are out again. I really hate that. Well they won't be getting a sale from me at these ridiculous prices.

Z390 prices aren't much better with boards below £150 being pretty basic and only having 16x/4x pci-e slots. It wasn't long ago that boards that had that pci-e slot configuration were sub £90 boards.

I just have to hope that the next Ryzen will have much improved single core performance when they launch next year. The problem with that is going to be Brexit and the inevitable crash in the pound that will make everything even more expensive.
 
ASUS guy talking about Z390 on YouTube stream right now if anyones interested, on a competitor stream though so no post. Think the opposite of Old Chicken and you will find it...
 
pastymuncher said:
While I expected prices to be high I didn't think they would be this high. I wouldn't have bought one at the £450 for the 9700k and £550-580 for the 9900k let alone a eye watering £500 and £600!! As usual we are being asked to pay more than anybody else. Then there's this pre-order before any reviews are out again. I really hate that. Well they won't be getting a sale from me at these ridiculous prices.

Z390 prices aren't much better with boards below £150 being pretty basic and only having 16x/4x pci-e slots. It wasn't long ago that boards that had that pci-e slot configuration were sub £90 boards.

I just have to hope that the next Ryzen will have much improved single core performance when they launch next year. The problem with that is going to be Brexit and the inevitable crash in the pound that will make everything even more expensive.
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Well another site is preorder the 9900k at nearly 600 pound... price gouging much.. 488 into GBP is 372 add 20% is still so say 450 GBP yet the pre order is 599 seriously WTF..... losing a lot of respect for a lot of retailers at the moment. Will probably end up getting some American friend to ship me one over.
 
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