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Intel to launch 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPUs & Z370 chipset 5 October 2017

Gibbo said:
All I will say is Coffee Lake is very short, like practically zero availability of the K versions. :(
I forsee most who were planning an upgrade just getting a Kaby lake or Ryzen.
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It looks like the rumours of this being nothing more than a glorified “paper” launch might be true then.

Guess I may consider just spending the extra on a 7820x afterall......
 
Gibbo said:
Unfortunately due to sites like Reddit these days, it makes it very hard for me to leak anything, whereas in the past leaks remained within the forum and people liked the inside info, it now gets spread so to maintain our relationships with the vendors its best I simply do not give away information.

All I will say is Coffee Lake is very short, like practically zero availability of the K versions. :(
I forsee most who were planning an upgrade just getting a Kaby lake or Ryzen.
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Well that sucks to hear, I had pretty much talked myself into the 8700k (current system is on its way out, failing mobo (and/or) cpu and is throwing up random issues), liked the look of the 8700k.
 
Gibbo said:
Unfortunately due to sites like Reddit these days, it makes it very hard for me to leak anything, whereas in the past leaks remained within the forum and people liked the inside info, it now gets spread so to maintain our relationships with the vendors its best I simply do not give away information.

All I will say is Coffee Lake is very short, like practically zero availability of the K versions. :(
I forsee most who were planning an upgrade just getting a Kaby lake or Ryzen.
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thank you Gibbo, when do you see the stocks being plentiful ?? (leave the answer until after the nda lift)
 
Gibbo said:
All I will say is Coffee Lake is very short, like practically zero availability of the K versions. :(
I forsee most who were planning
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Argh, really need a new CPU but I’ll be driving home from work when these release so I’ll definitely miss my chance. ☹️
 
Armadillo said:
Rushed launched? or production problems? Seems odd to launch with those stock levels.
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I think rushed launch. The road map obviously showed 6 core processors were due but I don’t think Intel were expecting the positive reception (and sales) Ryzen received. I don’t blame them to be fair, if we go on previous history.

I think the early launch is nothing more than trying to take the wind out of Ryzen’s sails. Although if the price is high then AMD still have their card to play. I’ve also noticed that certain retailers have already dropped the price of Ryzen cpu’s And to be fair they’re looking quite attractive.

It’s a shame the clock speed and IPC still isn’t quite there, although if the Ryzen refresh improves it and we get processors with 4.5ghz speeds then things will really get interesting....Either that or have the likes of 1700 processors close to 200 quid....
 
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Chances by Christmas? Could get really messed up if people MBs etc and waiting on CPU.



Gibbo said:
Unfortunately due to sites like Reddit these days, it makes it very hard for me to leak anything, whereas in the past leaks remained within the forum and people liked the inside info, it now gets spread so to maintain our relationships with the vendors its best I simply do not give away information.

All I will say is Coffee Lake is very short, like practically zero availability of the K versions. :(
I forsee most who were planning an upgrade just getting a Kaby lake or Ryzen.
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Of course it's a rushed launch otherwise they would have enough stock to go around. They know by now how many they are likely to sell at launch so releasing a product with insufficient stock levels is a paper launch, I wonder how long the shortages will last.
 
Martini1991 said:
Worst logistical Intel launch in ages then, usually stock is fine.
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To be fair, we don't know specifically what very low stock means. It could be relative to past launches and expected demand, and they only have 100 (which is very low compared to 1000's of units from recent launches) or they literally have 2.

If they do have 100 units then I'm sure quite a lot of us in this thread will be able to grab one. Not much has been said about motherboards though, which is also concerning.

This is, ofcourse, all speculation but I'm keeping a positive mindset about it until tomorrow.
 
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