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Core 9000 series

Brun said:
The farce I was referring to is - as pointed out by many people - the fact that people can import a product for significantly less than buying it domestically.

Whether I'm a victim of Intel's inflated prices is dependent on the value I put on the product, and clearly I don't have a problem with that (at the US price at least). Also, I'm upgrading from a 6700k so a significant performance increase is guaranteed by virtue of having twice as many cores. And before you mention it, I'm aware that games performance doesn't scale like that, but 3D rendering certainly does.

Besides, chances are my order won't ship until some time after the 19th so I have plenty of time to come to my senses :)
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Each to their own, and if you are happy with it then good for you. The value is relative to competition that can be had and the competition is significantly cheaper, more available and much better bang for buck.

You will never see me say the 9900K is a bad cpu, far from it but it definitely is not value for money.

I would always urge anyone to wait for reviews of any product they want to buy. The more expensive it is the more they should wait to see.
 
Distracted said:
I think I'm probably going to upgrade from the 8700k to the 9900k, even though the US price is 50 more than I was expecting the UK price to be. If I do buy then I'll be importing and saving 100 quid.
For me the combo of the extra clockspeed, cores and STIM is worth the 200ish it is going to cost to upgrade after selling my 8700k given how I use and intend to use my PC. The limited hardware fixes implemented this time round are also nice to have over the 8700k, but not a major factor in my decision making process.

I won't pay the ridiculous UK prices. I still think the 9900k is overpriced, and no, i don't agree with the dodgy commissioned benchmarks.

Then again when real non biased benchmarks are released, depending on the results, I may decide that the 9900k is considerably overpriced for the performance it offers and decide to stick with what I have for a while longer. :confused:

Right now tho I'm looking at the US preorder sites and my wallet is trembling. :p
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I was going to get the 9900k also but after seeing the price of the said cpu and the 9700k they can **** right off, also isnt the 9900k 100mhz less at stock? also have you accounted for the possibility of having to get a z390 mobo? I've heard that the VRM's might struggle on a z370 board? I've always brought Intel CPU's but not now, I'm going to wait for Zen2, I don't reward ****** companies who pull stunts like massive price increases with nothing to show for it, artifically inflating the price of the 8700k so it falls just below the cost of the 9700k, that isn't a coincidence. Over the last 2 years we were ****** over with the RAM prices, then the 20 series cards (brought my MSI 970 for £280 and now for a 2070 you're looking at £500, thats nearly a 100% price increase over the course of 3 years) and now Intel took notice of Nvidia and pulled the same stunt, we don't have a choice really regarding graphics cards but we do with CPU's. I too was going to get one from America, I have a friend there that could get it for me but after the shady **** I'll happily wait.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Each to their own, and if you are happy with it then good for you. The value is relative to competition that can be had and the competition is significantly cheaper, more available and much better bang for buck.

You will never see me say the 9900K is a bad cpu, far from it but it definitely is not value for money.

I would always urge anyone to wait for reviews of any product they want to buy. The more expensive it is the more they should wait to see.
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To be honest I'm generally in agreement with you. I'd never usually pre-order in these situations, but on this occasion decided to go for it.
 
i cant believe how expensive the CPU is, £600 WOW for a 8 core that at best will be 15% faster than AMD 2700X but 2x the price. If buying new I would recommend everyone to buy AMD, enough of this price gouging and high prices.

Its got to a point where ordering from USA is cheaper than ordering from UK directly hahaha
 
subbytna said:
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That's a techy a tech post as I've read in a while on here :D
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My bad I really couldn't not answer that as I hear a lot of people who haven't even tried making claims that they don't work or in fact that it is any more difficult than adding a bunch of Intel hypervisors in some situations, especially if the kit is old. Seen as I have tried I really just wanted to straighten out that point! To be clear though you do need to power stuff down but even in our small network we have enough redundant routes that we can power down say an ad server, migrate it power it up, down a second ad server etc etc.

We have redundancy in pretty much every route possible from software to hardware to storage. I'm sure we can operate fully without downing any services and migrating over a period of time. This really isn't any different to how we did our migration from our old intel kit to our new intel kit and probably wouldn't be for any other business who like yourselves try and make the servers last as long as possible :) I'll try my best to keep it on the 9 series from here on :)
 
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AMDPower said:
i cant believe how expensive the CPU is, £600 WOW for a 8 core that at best will be 15% faster than AMD 2700X but 2x the price. If buying new I would recommend everyone to buy AMD, enough of this price gouging and high prices.

Its got to a point where ordering from USA is cheaper than ordering from UK directly hahaha
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LOOKS AT HIS NAME :p:D:D:D:D:D

people are moaning about the price of a 8 core 5GHZ chip LOLOLOL. it wasnt even possible until recently yet now we have basically the best gaming chip ever made at 5ghz and 8 cores. people moan about the price yet its not even that dear. 15 percent in some games some will be 30-40 fps lol.thats like going for a low end gpu to max end gpu in some games.its worth it.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
LOOKS AT HIS NAME :p:D:D:D:D:D

people are moaning about the price of a 8 core 5GHZ chip LOLOLOL. it wasnt even possible until recently yet now we have basically the best gaming chip ever made at 5ghz and 8 cores. people moan about the price yet its not even that dear. 15 percent in some games some will be 30-40 fps lol.thats like going for a low end gpu to max end gpu in some games.its worth it.
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yeah 30-40fps on a game thats hitting 300+fps... soooo many monitors that support that refresh rate... your shilling knows no bounds...
 
~>Dg<~ said:
LOOKS AT HIS NAME :p:D:D:D:D:D

people are moaning about the price of a 8 core 5GHZ chip LOLOLOL. it wasnt even possible until recently yet now we have basically the best gaming chip ever made at 5ghz and 8 cores. people moan about the price yet its not even that dear. 15 percent in some games some will be 30-40 fps lol.thats like going for a low end gpu to max end gpu in some games.its worth it.
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You mean 5Ghz on 1 core.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
LOOKS AT HIS NAME :p:D:D:D:D:D

people are moaning about the price of a 8 core 5GHZ chip LOLOLOL. it wasnt even possible until recently yet now we have basically the best gaming chip ever made at 5ghz and 8 cores. people moan about the price yet its not even that dear. 15 percent in some games some will be 30-40 fps lol.thats like going for a low end gpu to max end gpu in some games.its worth it.
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Holy Crap



You actually managed to find the caps lock on your keyboard for once. Though it still seems to evade you in sentences....
 
~>Dg<~ said:
LOOKS AT HIS NAME :p:D:D:D:D:D

people are moaning about the price of a 8 core 5GHZ chip LOLOLOL. it wasnt even possible until recently yet now we have basically the best gaming chip ever made at 5ghz and 8 cores. people moan about the price yet its not even that dear. 15 percent in some games some will be 30-40 fps lol.thats like going for a low end gpu to max end gpu in some games.its worth it.
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Not sure names are relevant when AthlonXP1800+ is the biggest anti-AMD poster here. ;)

Also, you even admit that the games that'll run 15% faster are the ones that already run at over 300 FPS...it's not exactly a huge deal. It'll be games that are hugely CPU bound, especially at high refresh rates and low resolutions, e.g. games like WoW and CS:Go where your GPU is largely irrelevant. P.S. WoW just got a multithreaded update that reduces the reliance on single core performance.

15% extra performance for over 100% extra cost is "worth it", uh huh. "It's not even that dear", uh huh. It'll definitely be faster in a lot of games than Ryzen given the same GPU but name one scenario where spending an extra £300 on a CPU is a better choice than putting that £300 into a better GPU.
 
AMDPower said:
Its got to a point where ordering from USA is cheaper than ordering from UK directly hahaha
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If my calcs are correct, it's circa £100 cheaper than the UK price... and that's after shipping and import duty. Crazy!!!

The price-performance index of the 2700X makes the purchase of the 9900K at £600 a very poor proposition for the majority, especially given that AM4 has a degree of future-proofing.

No doubt the 9900K is a great CPU, sadly it does feel like Team Blue are milking it to the very end!

I can't justify the high price given the now healthy competition.
 
OverDrive said:
If my calcs are correct, it's circa £100 cheaper than the UK price... and that's after shipping and import duty. Crazy!!!
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Yeah based on SRP the i9-9900K should be ~£530. I mean, that price is still way too high IMO but it's a lot cheaper than UK retailers are charging right now.

OverDrive said:
No doubt the 9900K is a great CPU, sadly it does feel like Team Blue are milking it to the very end!
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Intel could easily compete on price with AMD but I think their strategy is to milk their mindshare as much as they possibly can and hope that it gives them enough cash-flow to get 10nm and a new architecture out the door before AMD gains too much market share. Bit of a gamble but it might work, it depends on a lot of variables like how good TMSC's 7nm turns out to be, how well AMD can market their products (and they have a fairly poor track record of this), how many more times 10nm is going to be delayed, etc.
 
8 Pack said:
5ghz single core boost!!!

and 8 Cores is needed for gaming, Really???
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it really helps in certain mp games. bf big mp games for eg pubg on high refresh rates. pubg loves high oc. thats why ryzens are well behind in it. people laugh at no difference but in pubg a top intel chip can be 30+ fps quicker in some scenarios. thats like going from a 1060 to a 2080ti at same res ! yet people will call it dear.:p

if you play pubg battlefields and such. these chips will give you a edge and arent that expensive. apart from we getting gouged in uk.compared to usa.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
it really helps in certain mp games. bf big mp games for eg pubg on high refresh rates. pubg loves high oc. thats why ryzens are well behind in it. people laugh at no difference but in pubg a top intel chip can be 30+ fps quicker in some scenarios. thats like going from a 1060 to a 2080ti at same res ! yet people will call it dear.:p

if you play pubg battlefields and such. these chips will give you a edge and arent that expensive. apart from we getting gouged in uk.compared to usa.
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Even in those cases that favour Intel the most, e.g. pubg, surely an i7-9700K is going to be a better choice? I bet the gap between that and the i9-9900K is going to be almost nil in most games.
 
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