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

Well it's probably more restrained than it would have been without Ryzen on the scene... 8600K looks like it might be a bit higher than the 1600X by the time it hits our shores? Tiny advantage in stock clocks, it'll basically be down to whether it OCs well as to whether it's worth anything I guess.

Bit surprised at that 8350K... is it just a 7600 without turbo, for $10 less?
 
OK so prices up across the board but with extra cores. If the i5-8600K ends up at £250 it'll be just over half way between the R5 1600 and R7 1700. It won't be able to touch the R7 1700 in heavily threaded applications but would best the R5 1600 is lowly threaded applications for sure, and looks a lot better value than a £370 i7-8700K. The Core i3 looks pretty pointless if it really is going to be more expensive than the already joke-priced i3-7350K. Yes it has 4 cores but at nearly double the price of the R3 1200 and only slightly less than the R5 1600 I don't see the point unless you only play old games that don't use 4+ threads.

Notice I'm only talking about their K series CPUs here. No-one really cares about locked ones. :p
 
DragonQ said:
OK so prices up across the board but with extra cores. If the i5-8600K ends up at £250 it'll be just over half way between the R5 1600 and R7 1700. It won't be able to touch the R7 1700 in heavily threaded applications but would best the R5 1600 is lowly threaded applications for sure, and looks a lot better value than a £370 i7-8700K. The Core i3 looks pretty pointless if it really is going to be more expensive than the already joke-priced i3-7350K. Yes it has 4 cores but at nearly double the price of the R3 1200 and only slightly less than the R5 1600 I don't see the point unless you only play old games that don't use 4+ threads.

Notice I'm only talking about their K series CPUs here. No-one really cares about locked ones. :p
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Looking around you can buy a Ryzen 1700 and a nice 370 board for under £400. The Intel setup would have to hit some big clockspeeds before it makes sense and at that point you'd probably need to spend a decent chunk of cash on cooling.
 
They are happy to pay it so good luck to them they are getting 2 cores and 4 threads for free after all, or an extra 2 cores with the i3.

What they have done is bring the i5 down to i3 and dropped the price by $50-60, given the i5 2 extra cores and threads for $20 and the i7 2 cores and 4 threads for an extra $20-30.

Seems about right to me.
 
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Those prices look based on the Canadian retailer leak so are in no way official. I doubt they will be too much different, but the i3 and i5 being the same price makes no sense for one.
 
Jono8 said:
Those prices look based on the Canadian retailer leak so are in no way official. I doubt they will be too much different, but the i3 and i5 being the same price makes no sense for one.
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They are not the same price the i3 will be $182 and the i5 will be $264, give or take a little bit according to that chart.
 
If the dollar price lands in the UK at the usual ripoff conversion the 8700K will be around £90-100 more than the quad core.

The 8600K could be interesting if you can get a 1000Mhz+ on the all cores speed for around £265. That said you can buy a 16 thread chip form AMD for about the same price. 6 threads vs 16 is going to be a hard sell.
 
jigger said:
The 8600K could be interesting if you can get a 1000Mhz+ on the all cores speed for around £265. That said you can buy a 16 thread chip form AMD for about the same price. 6 threads vs 16 is going to be a hard sell.
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Not if all you do is game at 1080p it isn't, it'll be the best 1080p cpu in the known universe :)
 
Doobedoo said:
They are not the same price the i3 will be $182 and the i5 will be $264, give or take a little bit according to that chart.
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No, the i5 8400 is listed as the same price as the i3 8350k. It can't be correct as why would you get the i3 when you can have 2 more cores for the same money?

For the old generation the similar price perhaps made a bit of sense as there were the same amount of threads. For coffeelake it doesn't seem to make sense, especially as the 8400 boosts to 3.8ghz all core or 4.0ghz single core. Why would anyone by the 8350k?
 
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