EPIC DEAL: INTEL 9900K RETAIL ONLY £449.99 WITH FREE GAMES!!!

[moogle]

Supply has never being an issue at OcUK, in stock since day one and always in stock since.

There's always plenty if something's a bad buy, why would it go out of stock

 

[beany_bot]

At the end of the day Zen 2 won't beat the 9900k on pure gaming performance.

I'm Glad you know more than anyone else who doesnt work at AMD.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Just remember to knock 40%+ performance off, when you install the new vulnerability patches.

 

[Rainmaker]

Just remember to knock 40%+ performance off, when you install the new vulnerability patches.

...and disable HT, rendering your shiny i7 into a very overpriced i5.

 

[Troezar]

The good thing is there will soon be choice. Intel can carry on doing their thing and AMD can have my money. In the end the market will decide who has the best strategy.

 

[singularity]

Our own deal, most competitors are £25 - £60 more expensive or were at time of doing the deal, nothing to stop anyone from matching.

Our inventory is fine and we will replenish in a week or so, Intel don't need to fight anything which does not exist yet.

We have sold over 4000 9900K processors so its a great product for us.

Gibbo, you are excellent as a salesman, I salute you.

 

[Troezar]

Gibbo, you are excellent as a salesman, I salute you.

Agreed, he knows his market.

 

[Grim5]

At the end of the day Zen 2 won't beat the 9900k on pure gaming performance. It will either be value (again) or more cores (again).

It's true though, the security vulnerabilities of Intel processors should give people pause, and lacking PCI-E 4.0 is something to consider.

Coin flip.

This is likely to be true.

From the ES samples we’ve seen to date while latency has improved it’s still much higher than Intel and while IPC has improved in many areas the one area it has not improved is Integer calculations which is heavily used in games.

In summary zen2 will get a bit extra performance from a bit lower latency but still can’t match Intel there and then it comes down to how high can you overclock the chips - because the type of IPC that would help games appears to be flat, unless the ES samples are wrong

Zen2 probably needs at least 5ghz to have a fighting chance in gaming - but course it’s going to dominate the 9900k in everything else so if you do stuff other than just playing games then zen2 would be your pick anyway

 

[RavenXXX2]

Dohh, can't game on the zen 2 coz it's 2 FPS slower than Intel at 1080p, give over.

 

[subbytna]

Zen 2 hitting in July with the possibility of 16 cores at 5Ghz at 9900k pricing, hell even the 12 core part will come in cheaper. Who is buying the hot and hungry 9900k...

Sadly the 16 core won't do 5GHz all core. Perhaps it'll do 4.5, but 5Ghz on 16 cores is a dream at this point.

4.5 on 16 cores isn't to be sniffed at though.

 

[Silent_Scone]

16 cores at 5GHz is a pipe dream. You'll be lucky if the 6 core does.

 

[Jacky60]

I'd be interested at £329.99, otherwise I'll wait for Zen 2. Intel's greed and lack of innovation in the CPU space means they'll have to work very hard indeed for me to buy anything from them in the next decade.