i7 6700k prices? what is going on?

[Kelt]

just buy used intel,still better than amd and cheaper than latest gen

£300+ no thanks

Yup.

Got my 4.4ghz X5650, EX-UD5 and 12gb of ram for 175 all in.

Wouldn't even buy half a 6700K.

 

[w00dy85]

I guess I have been lucky with my Skylake build, finished building it about 6 weeks ago. As it took a while to find a 6700k at a price I was willing to pay, after I purchased my 6700k the retailer put them up to £310

I got a MSI M7 motherboard for £180, that came with a free CPU cooler worth £70. The 6700k cost me £275 and I payed £78 for 16GB of ram. So price wise, I think didn't do bad.

 

[Sixense]

Really need AMD to be more competitive so Intel use reasonable pricing. Applies to both CPU and the GPU markets..

Now, I can't remember who said it in one thread a while ago: people want AMD to be competitive so they can buy cheap Intel/nVidia. They need good hardware AND marketing to change that attitude.

On topic: £400 lol. That's close to 5930K...

 

[jbh110tdi]

Im hoping theyll start to get sensible next year as I want to upgrade to an i7 and would like to go to the newer gen but at this rate Ill drop my cash on a 4790k and a better z97 board

 

[Hedge]

I've seen they have just come up at a couple of places at £273 so things are looking up for people wanting one.

Definitely makes it a more viable purchase now.

 

[RavenXXX2]

I've seen they have just come up at a couple of places at £273 so things are looking up for people wanting one.

Definitely makes it a more viable purchase now.

Yeah about time, I would happily pay that for one.

 

[~>Dg<~]

I've seen they have just come up at a couple of places at £273 so things are looking up for people wanting one.

Definitely makes it a more viable purchase now.

yes maybe they realizing finally what stupid gouging isn't going to sell.

 

[Dave2150]

Yup.

Got my 4.4ghz X5650, EX-UD5 and 12gb of ram for 175 all in.

Wouldn't even buy half a 6700K.

If you're happy having no warranty on your new purchase of 6-7 year old technology, and are happy not having any of the latest technologies (USB3, USB 3.1, SATA3, PCI-E 3.0, M.2, UEFI Fan Control, 4pin PWM fan connectors) and don't care about heat and noise (overclocked 1366 xeons run at 200w+ at idle) then it's a viable option.

For most it's not, hence the price.

 

[yoyo59]

intel must have heard me, I just picked one up for £250

im shocked as much as you guys!

 

[thesuperlouis]

gives a clue then lol

 

[ndaar]

In fairness there are plenty of sites that have stock and are sub 300 price wise. Not hard to find on google.

 

[Freddie1980]

gives a clue then lol

No.

 

[OLDPHART]

This is why l went x58 to x79+4820k, upgrade to 4930k>new £230.

 

[Dave2150]

In fairness there are plenty of sites that have stock and are sub 300 price wise. Not hard to find on google.

Yep, Haswell owners just like to say it's £380 to make themselves feel better or something....

 

[setter]

Sub £300.00 is more realistic. If the price at release had been like this, same as previous mainstream i7's. I'd probably have bought one as it looks like a nice cool running chip compared to the previous models, (all if which I've owned). But the upgrade to 5820k was cheaper. And tbh, at 4.5ghz its very similar in games to my 4790k at 4.7ghz. But is a lot cooler running. 6 cores might be a bit overkill for current games, but this may change in future. But perhaps by that time ill be on another platform as I don't keep cpu's for long.

 

[Caracus2k]

Yep, Haswell owners just like to say it's £380 to make themselves feel better or something....

Is that like Skylake owners telling themselves that their could be a six+ core CPU for their Z170 chipset... when this is not going to happen

http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-kaby...16-256-mb-edram-hseries-91w-kseries-unveiled/

Kabylake tops out at four cores on socket 1151... just like Sklyale does

There's nothing stopping Intel making an 6 or 8 core CPU for Z170 if they want to. They could even do the same for z97.

and like them claiming that a 6700K is faster 99% of the time in gaming when overclocking their system compared to an overclocked 5820K when its not.....(3000Mhz memory on Skylake is Overclocking despite what you might claim just as memory running over 2133Mhz on X99 is overclocking) and claiming that sooper doper fast DDR4 is going to give them an advantage when it really does not


http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

DDR4 speed - 2133mhz - look on a Z170 motherboard page to see 'OC' by any memory running faster than this on Skylake....

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-651-as.html

yep everything past 2133Mhz says OC.......

Lookup a 6700k review where they are running 3000Mhz memory. It is faster than a 5820k in 99% of games. Memory speed makes a big difference for Skylake, as the chip officially supports upto 4133Mhz DDR4

I call total BS unless you can post proof otherwise. Even the quickest of internet searches shows there's practically no gains past 2400 DDR4 on either X99 or Z170



'After spending dozens of hours benchmarking ten different memory speeds on the Intel Z170 + Skylake platform we must admit that we are too shocked by the findings. Our benchmarks show that the memory bandwidth increased, but there wasn’t a tangible improvement in system performance with real applications. We ran other applications and game titles when we tested this memory kit and you mostly ended up with flat performance charts'

http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-me...nding-the-best-ddr4-memory-kit-speed_170340/6

test after test shows that shoving fast ram on z170 (or x99 for that matter) makes very little difference whilst gaming.

Going from 2400 to super fast 3733mhz ram nets you about 1-2fps at games already running at 100fps+

Above 2400mhz it seems that the bottleneck almost entirely rests elsewhere and faster memory makes little to no difference

Except reviews don't show the 6700K winning every time do they...

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/luke-hill/intel-core-i7-6700k-i5-6600k-skylake-cpu-review/8/

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So what they actually show is a 5820k and 6700k trading blows with very little between them. If you up the resolution to 1440p or 4k these games would become even more GPU bound so that's not going to be helped by a four core 6700k either.

Why don't you try backing up your assertions without posting nonsense cnet articles that compared pre built PC's with totally different GPU and O/S configurations.

Also what are these mysterious advantages that you believe Skylake's architecture gives you over X99? Ill trade your improvement in IPC and higher stock and OC core speeds for more cores/threads, more PCI-E lanes and more L3 cache (2mb per core on 6700k vs 2.5mb on 5820k).

As expected the article I have linked to shows that in gaming there's rarely more than 1fps between a 6700k @ 4.7ghz and a 5820k @ 4.5ghz and the winner is not always the same chip. Where the 6700k excels most it trades blows with a 5820k where the 5820k excels it totally trashes the 6700K

The 6700K was £380 on OCUK for quite a while and saying that ohh I can go elsewhere and buy it cheaper whilst ignoring that the same is/was true for the 5820K is a little disingenuous tbh

 

[DragonQ]

overclocked 1366 xeons run at 200w+ at idle

Except they don't, but you've already been told that.

 

[Mei]

they (intel) said stock should be getting better by the end of november?
maybe we will see prices drop soon

 

[~>Dg<~]

well its pretty obvious when stock is in here and maybe other places in bigger number 270 or below will be the new price .

thing is many people have from sandy to devil who probably wont upgrade anyway.

can see weak sales .

 

[Caracus2k]

Except they don't, but you've already been told that.

Accuracies not his strong point six core 1366 Xeons share the 'Gulftown/westmere' architecture with the i7 980x

Which can be found using 86 watts at idle overclocked to 4.4ghz turbo a whole watt higher than stock.....

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/core-i7-980x-efficiency,review-31859-8.html

Still he thinks the z170 chipset gives him 30 pci-e 3 lanes...........

Z170 chipset has 30 PCI-E V3.0 lanes (DMI 3.0).