Core 9000 series

azazl187 · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:38

Ive been chewing at the bit to upgrade from my i7 2600k for a while now and have been holding off until a decent upgrade has come along (i mostly Game on my PC and at 4K).

The 9900k looked like a decent upgrade at last but the chip costs as much as my MoBo, RAM and CPU did 5 years ago. I just cant see the sense in it anymore, i really cant. Now im thinking AMD! :/

subbytna · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:39

*********INTEL**********

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro WIFI Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99
1 x NZXT Kraken X52 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm= £124.99

Total: £486.07 (includes shipping: £11.10)

PLUS £600 for a 8 core 16 thread CPU

= £1086 for a motherboard/cpu/ram/cooler bundle!!!

********AMD**********
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99
1 x Asus ROG Strix X470-F Gaming AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £184.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 2700 4.10GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £259.99

Total: £605.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)

Comes with a cooler

= £605 for a motherboard/cpu/ram/cooler bundle

Just about says it all really £450 difference. That's a new GPU cost!

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:39

azazl187 said:
Ive been chewing at the bit to upgrade from my i7 2600k for a while now and have been holding off until a decent upgrade has come along (i mostly Game on my PC and at 4K).

The 9900k looked like a decent upgrade at last but the chip costs as much as my MoBo, RAM and CPU did 5 years ago. I just cant see the sense in it anymore, i really cant. Now im thinking AMD! :/

I'm in exactly the same boat - I have an overclocked 2600k, and thinking these prices are ridiculous.

azazl187 · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:43

subbytna said:
*********INTEL**********

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro WIFI Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99

1 x NZXT Kraken X52 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm= £124.99

Total: £486.07 (includes shipping: £11.10)

PLUS £600 for a 8 core 16 thread CPU

= £1086 for a motherboard/cpu/ram/cooler bundle!!!

********AMD**********
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99

1 x Asus ROG Strix X470-F Gaming AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £184.99

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 2700 4.10GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £259.99

Total: £605.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)

Comes with a cooler

= £605 for a motherboard/cpu/ram/cooler bundle

Just about says it all really £450 difference. That's a new GPU cost!

Ok so we are about to see an AMD price hike?

subbytna · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:45

icehot666 said:
I'm in exactly the same boat - I have an overclocked 2600k, and thinking these prices are ridiculous.

At 4k gaming it's mostly the GPU anyway. Get AMD and save yourself a fortune.

My next upgrade is AMD as I'm fed up with INTEL and price gouging. They are doing a Nvidia, pushing prices up and up and up to see how many will still bite. Hopefully this fiasco makes them change their practices but I doubt it.

[Death] · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:48

chrcoluk said:
Considering there is no GPU there and only 16 gig of ram thats scary. Plus EVO ssd's.

If u read it’s 32gb

and my 2080ti arriving today

azazl187 · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:53

[Death] said:
If u read it’s 32gb and my 2080ti arriving today

And i bet you only play CS:GO on that rig

malachi · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:54

Ive seen on other sites the 2700x has started to go up, so its already happening on Ryzen CPU's.

azazl187 · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:55

subbytna said:
At 4k gaming it's mostly the GPU anyway. Get AMD and save yourself a fortune.

My next upgrade is AMD as I'm fed up with INTEL and price gouging. They are doing a Nvidia, pushing prices up and up and up to see how many will still bite. Hopefully this fiasco makes them change their practices but I doubt it.

Yes and i have a 1080ti doing most of the work at that res. My 2600K is OCed to 4.6 and temps are under 60 so i guess ill just have to stick with that until games start coming out that force us to upgrade due to lack of support of Sandybridge cores

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:12

subbytna said:
At 4k gaming it's mostly the GPU anyway. Get AMD and save yourself a fortune.

My next upgrade is AMD as I'm fed up with INTEL and price gouging. They are doing a Nvidia, pushing prices up and up and up to see how many will still bite. Hopefully this fiasco makes them change their practices but I doubt it.

Well I'm not gaming at 4k, I'm on 1080p with 144Hz - but I think the issue with ryzen (2700x) has always been that I've never seen it as enough of an upgrade over the 2600k with the overclocking on per core basis.

B1gbeard · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:15

On his stream Wendell thought the 9900k may take better advantage of faster RAM. Be an interesting one.

SiDeards73 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:16

icehot666 said:
Well I'm not gaming at 4k, I'm on 1080p with 144Hz - but I think the issue with ryzen (2700x) has always been that I've never seen it as enough of an upgrade over the 2600k with the overclocking on per core basis.

Wel.. either pay out for Intel or wait this round out my friend, those are your only options left

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:19

SiDeards73 said:
Wel.. either pay out for Intel or wait this round out my friend, those are your only options left

Nah I'm still convinced AMD will drop a 2800x on us in the next few weeks.

The other option of course is a bit more patience to see if prices will drop, as we've seen the US pricing is already 100 cheaper.

SiDeards73 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:20

icehot666 said:
Nah I'm still convinced AMD will drop a 2800x on us in the next few weeks.

Not going to happen.. would definitely have been solid rumors by now if it was... AMD are focused on 7nm and 7nm only right now, we wont see another Ryzen chip until 7nm launches.

Robert896r1 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:20

icehot666 said:
Nah I'm still convinced AMD will drop a 2800x on us in the next few weeks.

If AMD does that with a reasonable price then it'll be a no brainer for anyone on the fence.

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:22

SiDeards73 said:
Not going to happen.. would definitely have been solid rumors by now if it was... AMD are focused on 7nm and 7nm only right now, we wont see another Ryzen chip until 7nm launches.

Well there's plenty of rumors for it if you google it.

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:22

Robert896r1 said:
If AMD does that with a reasonable price then it'll be a no brainer for anyone on the fence.

Yes and with the current state of things it's landed me firmly on the fence - hence why a 2800x would possibly nudge me over.

Robert896r1 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:23

btw for those on the fence, you can get a 8086k on the south america jungle site for 393 if you can wait a week. That's probably the best deal going on period.

muon · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:24

icehot666 said:
Nah I'm still convinced AMD will drop a 2800x on us in the next few weeks.

The other option of course is a bit more patience to see if prices will drop, as we've seen the US pricing is already 100 cheaper.

The headroom simply isn't there. The 2700X is already at the limit. Not going to happen.

AMD simply didn't call it the 2800X because the could show a price/performance increase by pricing it the same as the 1700X and calling it a 2700X. Something which I think was a smart move.

icehot666 · 9 Oct 2018 at 11:30

Well anyway, it doesn't matter, if you've landed on the fence, most likely people won't do anything - and either AMD will need to release something more tempting, or intel will have to drop prices into the tempting range to push someone over the edge of the fence into whichever territory does something first.