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Intel Price hike

I went from like a i7 920 & side graded to a 2500k. So I don't feel ive properly upgraded in like nearly 10 years. Not been much point. So just been upgrading the gpu. But with my pump/reservoir surely breaking soon (been going like 5+ years), the cpu finally probably holding back my fps, my hdd now full & ssd falling in price I'm ready to treat myself. It's a pity that feeling of a treat is more of a headache & a butt pain now.
 
Mind, they're pretty well hiding the £303.99 price and shoving up the £386.40 when you search for 8700k.
Overstock of the 8700k or just Amazon's massive buying power?

Good for consumers but it seems a strange time to bring the price down so much.
Could be Intel supplying stock to head off the 2700X at £285?
 
gavinh87 said:
Its things like that that make me disbelieve these rainforest charts.
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I would have thought the reason for that was obvious.

This is the best cpu you can buy for the 100 and 200 series chipsets.

After that you need to buy a new motherboard as well as a new CPU.



There are plenty of reasons why someone might not want to or be able to upgrade to the 300 series chipset and CPUs. Buying the 7700k gives their still relevant platform even more life without the cost of a mobo upgrade.
 
Distracted said:
I would have thought the reason for that was obvious.

This is the best cpu you can buy for the 100 and 200 series chipsets.

After that you need to buy a new motherboard as well as a new CPU.



There are plenty of reasons why someone might not want to or be able to upgrade to the 300 series chipset and CPUs. Buying the 7700k gives their still relevant platform even more life without the cost of a mobo upgrade.
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At £320 you could buy a 8400 and a mobo and still have change! Hell you could get a 8600k and still be in pocket! Not buying those charts.
The fx 8350 is at #13 !??
 
Distracted said:
I would have thought the reason for that was obvious.

This is the best cpu you can buy for the 100 and 200 series chipsets.

After that you need to buy a new motherboard as well as a new CPU.


There are plenty of reasons why someone might not want to or be able to upgrade to the 300 series chipset and CPUs. Buying the 7700k gives their still relevant platform even more life without the cost of a mobo upgrade.
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Yeah but if it was £200-250 fair enough. How old is an 7700k?
I thought about an upgrade CPU for my i5 4570 but no point at the prices.
 
Cita8 said:
Yeah but if it was £200-250 fair enough. How old is an 7700k?
I thought about an upgrade CPU for my i5 4570 but no point at the prices.
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4 million people are still paying for their handset after their initial phone contract period has ended. No limit to the stupidity of people lol
 
Cita8 said:
Mind, they're pretty well hiding the £303.99 price and shoving up the £386.40 when you search for 8700k.
Overstock of the 8700k or just Amazon's massive buying power?

Good for consumers but it seems a strange time to bring the price down so much.
Could be Intel supplying stock to head off the 2700X at £285?
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I suspect it is a knee jerk reaction, all 8th gen is now moved to constrained by Intel, that basically is very bad news, basically there is zero supply in distribution throughout EMEA, Asia and other regions.
As for them such a product will be a huge seller, but now they have none left, no ETA for more, yet plenty of competitors do have stock, in an order to prevent losing business they sell at a considerable loss or its an error as its way below cost direct from Intel, let alone cost after a distributor or sub distributor adds margin.

At £303.99 I'd be buying, its an insane price, if they honour it, awesome as doubt an 8700K will ever be sold that cheap, for proof of that look at 7700K prices are still north of £300.
 
Gibbo said:
I suspect it is a knee jerk reaction, all 8th gen is now moved to constrained by Intel, that basically is very bad news, basically there is zero supply in distribution throughout EMEA, Asia and other regions.
As for them such a product will be a huge seller, but now they have none left, no ETA for more, yet plenty of competitors do have stock, in an order to prevent losing business they sell at a considerable loss or its an error as its way below cost direct from Intel, let alone cost after a distributor or sub distributor adds margin.

At £303.99 I'd be buying, its an insane price, if they honour it, awesome as doubt an 8700K will ever be sold that cheap, for proof of that look at 7700K prices are still north of £300.
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Thanks for that reassurance Gibbo. I've agonised over this for weeks, first high end rig and don't want to spend extra money I could put towards a GPU.
I thought it was a mad price and was a mistake or it would never appear back in stock so I pressed order to see what happened. The fact that it's being shipped this week is utterly amazing.

Apologies to all for mentioning Amazon and prices. If OC's had it near that price I would have bought here but as it's so insane I had to vote with my wallet.
Now though, I need you to sell me a suitable MBoard, Ram and CPU air cooler for a modest overclock to 4.8Ghz ;)
 
gavinh87 said:
I expect this will push prices up even further.
Intel higher because there will be no stock.
And from AMD because they know people will go them if Intel cannot supply enough and will take full advantage.

Bad times for the pc market, especially with nvidias prices this gen.
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I agree and AMD prices have gone up from a month ago.
Hopefully the likes of MSI, Zotac and Gigabyte will see slow sales of the 2018/ti and give good Black Friday deals. Or maybe not.
Please let people with too much money (joking of course) stop buying the 1080ti and let it go down to £550 ;)
 
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