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Over £450 for an i7 8700k now 
Prices are getting to be ridiculous...
Prices are getting to be ridiculous...-
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Intel Price hike
- Thread starter RavenXXX2
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2700x is a viable alternative for gaming and way cheaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7t0kA5VJ7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7t0kA5VJ7o
Well, here in Finland one shop has rised price from 400€ to ludcirous 700€...Over £450 for an i7 8700k now
Maybe Intel wants to get consumers used to price they want to charge for octa cores.
Sure hope Zen2 drops a bomb on Intel.
With price of GPUs and RAM we don't need any more parts going up in price.
Especially for higher res like 4k, nothing in it at all. Lower res intel has the ipc advantage but thankfully i'm on 4k.
This caught me by surprise a bit, cpu prices had plummetted a lot earlier in the year (1800x under £200, i5 8400 around £150 ish) but now seem to be on the rise.
So we've got an unusual situation where CPU, GPU and RAM are all higher than they were in the past (albeit GPU and RAM slightly better than they were at one point). Pre-built systems retaining old pricing are going to become more attractive I feel.
So we've got an unusual situation where CPU, GPU and RAM are all higher than they were in the past (albeit GPU and RAM slightly better than they were at one point). Pre-built systems retaining old pricing are going to become more attractive I feel.
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lol 8600k now nearly a 60 pound more expensive than when I bought it.. you can't make this stuff up.
Soldato
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ocket-lga1151-processor-retail-cp-63q-in.html
£200 for an i3 now LMAO
INTEL£200 QUID FOR AN i3 CPU!!!
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £199.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600X 4.20GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £199.99
Total: £408.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)
new 6 core 12 thread or, 8 core 16 thread for same price as an i3 !
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The crazy thing is that OCUK sell a bundle with a Ryzen 2600, Gigabyte X370 motherboard, 8Gb 3000mhz DDR4, wraith cooler and a free 240Gb SSD for £339. That's just a tenner more than a i5 8600k which has now shot up to a disgusting £329!! These prices are a joke and with them increasing even further I reckon even my estimates of £450 for the 9700k and £550-580 for the 9900k may turn out to be much lower than they will actually be asking for them.
I did seriously consider holding out for a 9900K but now Threadripper is looking like the cheap option lol
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I see it like this, anyone buying a 9900k for gaming is delusional, if they are north of £600, you may as well get a 2700x and use the extra cash towards a GPU or other bits
Anyone buying the 9900k for productivity is delusional, you may as well get a 2700x or a Threadripper or plough in more dosh for a 7900x, and let's be honest 9900k is going to get trounced by Threadripper and 7900x etc abyhow in productivity or HEDT type stuff.
9900k is basically DOA when it arrives if it's anything north of £500, and I'm betting it's going to be £550-600 at launch and then the prices will just go up from there due to lack of stock etc.
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I upgraded to an 8700k a few months back - I was about to upgrade my son's PC to the same and did a double-take at the prices - the same CPU is nearly £200 more?! It's nice to see a bit more competition back in the CPU market but I didn't realise Intel would do their bit for AMD as well!