You also didn’t think it would include any vulnerability fixes. So not right all the time.
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Now that is interesting, just seen the same thing, and bringing it under 500 brings it into my price range - I wonder what the deal is with the warranty on importing items etc.
I really think people should start reporting nvidia and intel to trading standards the "tax" they put on us is getting silly and the excuses make less less sense everytime now (inb4 shipping "vat" or something else is mentioned) but if anyone thinks a £370 part should become £600 you have lost it, £230 is the cost of decent ram with extra to go towards the motherboard.
What's worse is over there for £370 they can buy the 9900k over here we cant even get the 9600k for that !
There really needs to be a proper explanation how the prices come over here and then get twisted into this highly inflated price point (and its not supply and demand because both intel and nvidia start high on release and then reduce)
Sadly however no company would ever post what they bought them at so we have no idea if ocuk are buying them at £300 a pop or £500
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I may try and find out today, I have distributor contacts through my work, so I'm curious what retailers are buying the chips for, I may or may not be able to get that info, but I can certainly try.
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Probably need to wait on some reviews for that info.
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Retailers are probably price fixing considering the costs to import. Either way, doesn't really bother me, I just vote with my wallet. If people are happy paying these prices, that's up to them, but I think I'll look at AMD next year instead. I'd like to upgrade and was set to get the new intel, but I can wait.
It is verging on a massive lawsuit for price fixing here it really is, indefensible mostly and it’s getting pretty bad on this very site...
I'm surprised that anyone is shocked by what we have seen so far. Also that all the hate goes to Intel. The 9900k is $490ish (not cheap but it's going to be the fastest, that's the market) but retailers here are selling it for £600. The retailers have marked it up far beyond a 1:1 even though the £ is currently $1.31. The retailers deserve nothing but flak for this and the whole it's a business thing doesn't wash. It doesn't happen in any other electronics market.
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Got to admit, I don't buy much on here to be honest. I generally use the site that picks parts... I don't really know what the reason is for the high price here compared to the States, as someone above mentioned even with import duty the price only just creep over £500 for buying from a US store at full retail price. Okay, that's still not even close to being reasonable from my point of view, but I'd think the whole economies of scale and being able to buy in bulk from Intel would mean retailers would be getting them at a significantly lower unit cost. Either way, no one is forcing us to buy them and thankfully there is a viable alternative out there in AMD.
I've zero issue having AMD or Intel, I really don't care which I have, but right now the 2700x isn't quite what I want performance wise, so I'll wait for their next chip and I'm optimistic it will be awesome... because lets face it, the Ryzen is a fantastic platform.
Actually thinking about rainforest international - it’s working out £497 with all fees... In fact I have done it, can always change my mind.
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The price is under 500 if you import it, best I've found is £495 for the 9900k via the import route.
Retailers here should really be embarrassed about this.
At least I am still happy with my 8600k purchase at these prices LOL.
If the 9700k was priced like the 8600k was I would have been a bit gutted.
averaged across the games they tested yeah, most games wont fully utilise a i9 chip.
£30 more for....
Soldered cpu
2 extra cores
But 4 less threads.
The talk on oc.net is that the 9700k is a better buy then the 8700k, I still agree with that, more cores beats more threads even with the single game benched earlier in this thread (which was a special case and was with 4 threaded vs 8, and the 9700k is 8 threaded anyway).
Granted its not quite the same as comparing a 8600k to a 7700k.
8600k 50% more cores than 7700k, 7700k 33% more threads than 8600k
9700k 33% more cores than 8700k, 8700k 50% more threads than 9700k.
I would buy the 8700k if I needed it for a virtual machine host (esxi, proxmox), or heavy rendering work. Other purposes I would go for the 9700k.
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They are as cheap as £320+ import\vat in the US.
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been waiting ages on x99, so time to jump
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £599.99
- 2 x G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-34100C19 4266MHz Dual Channel Kit (F4-4266C19D-16GTZR)= £278.99
- 1 x Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero (WI-FI) Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £295.99
- 1 x Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1200W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black= £234.95
- 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 360mm= £164.99
- 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £139.99
- 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Polaris 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £269.99
- 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital Midi Tower Glass Gaming Case - Black= £209.99
Total: £2,473.87 (includes shipping: £0.00)
Considering there is no GPU there and only 16 gig of ram thats scary. Plus EVO ssd's.
They should, express international shipping cost me $5 more, saving £100. I have an 8700k which clocks to 5.3 so realistically will sell that and recoup most of the cost in all likelihood.
Get it while you can before trumps dumb decisions add about 25% to US prices next year.