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Hints of the cheaper Intel deals at other sites, when will you actually receive that order though? Had been talked about here, that it would probably take some time.
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Exactly... it's not usually that far off but this time it's over a hundred pounds.. that's four fifths of some new memory.
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But not in this case, the real test is when it is listed on the uk forest.
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10 days till order fulfilled, humm wait 10 days and save 100 quid .. no brainer.
Yup. Its about £500 to import it personally which really puts the current UK prices into perspective.
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What I found interesting about what this guy was saying, is he repeatedly says "do not pre-order - wait for the full reviews" - that probably says it all right there.
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I've been running a 2500k of at 4.2ghz for over six years now. It's started to die. Whilst that was a superb value system the prior nahlem was awful value for money and adjusting for inflation was not much cheaper than this rig.
For 1k I expect this cpu and mobo to provide me a decent quality of use in gaming and work tasks (I'm an economist and have to run a lot of horridly unoptimised models so multiple cores matter less than raw horsepower),so that is 500£ year to amoratize costs over. Given I spend 4/5 hours every day on this system it's not actually that great a cost.
Some people spend an extra 10k on a sports package for their car to make their commute to work a little less dull. This isn't as bad as being made out unless some people here have difficulty budgeting for their hobby/work.
p.s. I actually bought an i7 8086k but just resold that for a 100£ profit without even opening the box...
For 1k I expect this cpu and mobo to provide me a decent quality of use in gaming and work tasks (I'm an economist and have to run a lot of horridly unoptimised models so multiple cores matter less than raw horsepower),so that is 500£ year to amoratize costs over. Given I spend 4/5 hours every day on this system it's not actually that great a cost.
Some people spend an extra 10k on a sports package for their car to make their commute to work a little less dull. This isn't as bad as being made out unless some people here have difficulty budgeting for their hobby/work.
p.s. I actually bought an i7 8086k but just resold that for a 100£ profit without even opening the box...
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I'm not trolling, I swear but do we know if a Z390 will be future proof with the next gen of intel CPU's?
So we have dodgy shady Intel manipulating benchmarks to boost sales, Nvidia holding back benchmarks and selling at crazy high prices that dont merit the performance and then RAM makers repeatedly either price fixing high or creating cartels?!?!?!
What is going on in the electronic world and who is going to bring these people to some sort of justice with more transparent rules and regs over selling practices?!
What is going on in the electronic world and who is going to bring these people to some sort of justice with more transparent rules and regs over selling practices?!
He's wasting his breath, this PC owning pastime seems to attract a uniquely gormless, impatient crowd with no self control who seem to think their whole world will fall apart if they don't own the shiny new stuff on day 1.
No it doesn’t, I’ve done exactly that it’s £100 cheaper all in including express international shipping...
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Well it's more the fact that there's been direct market issuence from Intel saying there's huge supply issues - how much is your time worth? Me not having a working system in October (which is why I oredered from OcUK not from the USA) has a cost value attached to it - and I don't know what you value your own time as but it's worth a hell of a lot more than £100 a month.
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Perhaps read the post I quoted in agreement to then as that is not what I was saying.
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It seems you've gone from caring, to just happily winding people up now.
Yeah LMAO, arguing gets boring. This is much more fun.
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Yeah get Kaap to do a roll of honour for these cpusYes because when your on the internet the choice of words you use loses all meaning right? Let me guess, you happen to be very proud of your place on the "Roll of 'insert any random word here'"
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Pretty much nail on the head there with that. Top post.
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I completely agree, I just found it really interesting, that he as a reviewer under the NDA, told people not to pre-order, that to me was the telling sign. He couldn't say why, or give any facts for obvious reasons, but he obviously knows the results, and said it multiple times.
I think after what's been happened recently NVidia specifically but everyone really. The small cadre of reviewers are just getting sick of being treated as a new marketing arm of the industry and are doing their best to hammer home the idea that preordering is almost universally bad for consumers 
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I think after what's been happened recently NVidia specifically but everyone really. The small cadre of reviewers are just getting sick of being treated as a new marketing arm of the industry and are doing their best to hammer home the idea that preordering is almost universally bad for consumers
I think they should all release their reviews before NDA is up simultaneously as a big middle finger up to the likes of Intel and nVidia.
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Amen. Unfortunately even if there is competition, it is proven that by copying Apple's marketing practices, many sheep exist to be sheared.