i7 6700k prices? what is going on?

[Tephnos]

Sure it was a k for that price?

 

[kayomani]

Nice price, i'm thinking we'll see the prices drop back down to the 300 mark over the next month as stock levels rise with the need to shift units.

 

[thesuperlouis]

defo not a k for that price at this moment in time!

 

[McGraw]

A competitor had them for £260 a few days ago on one day only.

 

[Ricimer]

Yes, I checked carefully it is a K was one of a limited number on special offer on another site. Missed out on some at £273 at a site that recently went crazy afterwards, but it was late and there were 43 so I thought it would wait until morning, at which point they were all gone and price was £360.

 

[thesuperlouis]

i know the big e was doing a gd deal on them!

 

[Phil99]

i know the big e was doing a gd deal on them!

Too much of a good deal it seems. Ordered one on there when they were in stock, 5 days later no delivery. Just called and I need to wait for a "couple of days" for new stock to come in and it's been "discontinued" on their website...

In the meantime OcUK managed to get my 1151 motherboard, RAM and HSF out the door in <4 hours from ordering. Shame the CPU pricing was so much more on here otherwise I'd be typing this from my new PC now, but then again I guess the pricing stayed high because they've actually got the stock rather than over-selling

 

[thesuperlouis]

thats rather unfortunate phil! i just ordered the 6600k from the big E.... so heres hoping lol!

 

[Dave2150]

Interesting quote from Gibbo about the 6700k stock and price issue:

We'd love to knock the price down by £50 but were selling over 50 units per day at present and Intel cannot meet our stock demands, I've got 5000 on back order and we get only like 200-300 units per week.

I'd like nothing more than Intel to deliver me like 2000 units next week so we could go killer on the price but unfortunately we will be lucky to get 200 let alone 2000 so the price has to remain around the £350 mark and we don't foresee stock situation improving until next year at this rate.....

So, even at this inflated price, over 50 6700k's are selling each day. I'm happy I picked mine up on launch day from here at £320, though the current £350 price isn't that crazy for the performance and features you get:

 

[Hedge]

10fps more than a 4790k. Wow definitely worth paying about 150 quid more for haha.

 

[Doogles]

Looks like £400 will be the new price for the top end consumer cpu's £1500 top end enthusiast chip a anyone?

That £400 for consumer chip won't be for me as I'll just get a AMD CPU with less power .

 

[thesuperlouis]

i think intel have left a big wide hole in the market for amd to come back with a reasonably priced reasonably powered cpu, intel could have sewn up the market right now but they are just to gready!!

 

[Doogles]

i think intel have left a big wide hole in the market for amd to come back with a reasonably priced reasonably powered cpu, intel could have sewn up the market right now but they are just to gready!!

I agree although as soon as that happens the next year Intel will put them back to square one. Hope Zen can be 8 cores with IPC of haswell minimum.

 

[Orangey]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review

3fps more than the 4790K.

LOL @ cherrypicking

 

[Dave2150]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review

3fps more than the 4790K.

LOL @ cherrypicking

Err, are you blind? Looking at the link that you posted:

It's more than 3 FPS difference on average across the games tested.

I'm not sure why anyone would consider upgrading from a 4790k anyway - they are still perfectly good gaming CPU's. I bet if you did a survey, 99% of 6600k/6700k purchasers are upgrading from much older CPU's.

For anyone upgrading from an older CPU, such as a i7 920 for example, why would they choose a 4790k? Better to get a faster Skylake CPU, DDR4, Z170 with all it's improvements over Z97.

 

[hominid]

I've got a 2600k and I'm not in any rush to upgrade, SSD's and a newer G/card have made my system way more responsive than I'll ever perceive from a CPU upgrade.

I'm going to wait to see what AMD release until I think of upgrading my system, if no jump in either core speed or core count then I'll stick with what I have for another few years. Heck I've had it nearly 5 years already.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

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For anyone upgrading from an older CPU, such as a i7 920 for example, why would they choose a 4790k? Better to get a faster Skylake CPU, DDR4, Z170 with all it's improvements over Z97.

Maybe an i5 at a push but the skylake i7 prices are shocking. But as Gibbo has stated if people are willing to pay over £50 more than they should be than Overclockers will take their money.

For anyone looking to upgrade to skylake i would put off till stock levels are higher and hopefully if business' stop price hiking.

 

[bfar]

Next year, ha? Might as well tell us to wait for Zen.

 

[dirtybeatfreak]

Though most people appear to clock their 5820k's to 4.2-4.3, which would mean the 6700k would be faster in all games, as it's very common to get a 4.6 -4.7Ghz overclock on the 6700k (on air).

The 5820k needs much more expensive cooling to get to 4.5Ghz reliably - such as a custom loop. Factor that into the overall cost of the system, with Skylake at it's £320 release price, and suddenly Skylake is the cheaper setup.

Disagree with this, I have hit 4.5 on my 5820k easily and know I have more headroom (using a cheap AIO cooler)

 

[clone]

Same here with my old 4820k ran at 4.5ghz from day one on a corsair cooler with very good temps,and I'm running a 6600k now as all I use my rig for is games.