** CPU's AT COST PRICE UNTIL 18:00 FRIDAY TO CELEBRATE BLACK FRIDAY!! **

Looked at thread title and almost cried as I just bought a 3770k a few weeks ago from elsewhere......surprisingly your cost price is decent amount more than what i paid!?
 
Jono8 said:
Looked at thread title and almost cried as I just bought a 3770k a few weeks ago from elsewhere......surprisingly your cost price is decent amount more than what i paid!?
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Yes that is truly possible as their are two sources for Intel chips:-
Official Intel authorised distributor
Grey channel.

Grey stock is always cheaper, but of course we loose all our support on the product from intel, warranty, rebate, marketing etc.

As such we stick to official channels only, but of course for the end user it makes little difference unless the etailor you purchase from refuses to deal with a return as Intel can refuse to deal with it as well.

So that potentially explain why some places can have even lower prices.
 
Whilst we're on the topic of CPU channel prices ... why is it that OEM / tray AMD chips are usually more expensive than the boxed versions, when both are available? On the face of it, it makes no sense.
 
pmc25 said:
Whilst we're on the topic of CPU channel prices ... why is it that OEM / tray AMD chips are usually more expensive than the boxed versions, when both are available? On the face of it, it makes no sense.
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Tray is cheaper but only for AMD's official system integrator customers, but we use them in systems and don't sell them online as part of the agreement.
 
Slipperz said:
Is it really worth upgrading to Haswell to get the pci e 3.0?

Currently 2700k i7

Gfx card 7950 iceqboost
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I would say no, but I have no evidence to back it up.

You will have to get a new motherboard for the Haswell chips as well.
 
Looks like I'm going to be blowing £240 friday, provided stock lasts till pay day :D We're apparently getting our bonuses the end of this month too...

Must resist... spending all... my moneys....

Damn Black friday!!
 
almighty15 said:
What your i7 clock too?
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Slipperz said:
4.6 at the moment that's just on the auto overclock
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Running my 2700 up at 4.8 24/7 (had 5.2 out of it before I chickened out as not 100% sorted cooling yet)

Running 2x 7950's CF @ 960/1400 and finding no bottlenecks (in BF4).

Then again not quite sure how I'd go about detecting a PCI bottleneck? Cards wouldn't reach 100% utilisation?
 
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