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Ivy Bridge...How much?

Runours that Ivys available for preorder elsewhere for shop forum ites (of which I am not one I have to Add) any such deal for ocuk loyals please ?
 
Will still be waiting a couple of weeks to get everything at once. would have got it all now and just put the extra on my credit card if I had one of the 10% vouchers. Should give me time to see better reviews of IB.
 
The price of the 2700K is back up to £270 on OCUK. This makes me suspicious that the 3770K will be £280+, which in my eyes is simply too close to the 3930K, and far more than the 3820.

Unless the Sandy prices reflect limited stock and some people might prefer them for better overclocking.

Less than 24 hours for an answer I guess, but really not sure if early buyers are going to get a fair deal or not.
 
In Aus the prices rough out at 170ish for i5K and 240-260 for the i7K. I expect a noticeable difference this time between 3770 and 3770K.
 
How much overclocking headroom is there in the non-k versions? If the turbo multiplier can be a bumped up a little it might be worth going with one of them if they're a bit cheaper.
 
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The K models have unlocked multiplier to ease overclocking. They lose some obscure features that might appeal to corporate users - more info on the web. There were non-K versions of Sandy Bridge but I doubt many people here bought them as the price difference was minimal - especially for i5. Even for mild clockers the flexibility was well worth the extra cost.

Like most manufacturers, Intel likes to create a product range with models at a higher price even though there is no real difference in manufacturing cost. The i5 and i7 will likely come from the same wafer. I can believe that if a defect is found in cache then a chip needs to become i5 but in the extra logic for hyperthreading - I doubt that happens. Also it's possible that better binned chips become K models. But overall I suspect a certain quota become i5 or i7 according to market demand as much as anything.

I was speculating that this time there will be a greater price difference between the K and non K in order to help create this artificial product range. Whereas big OEMs get their own pricing, for us the greater the price gap between individual SKUs the larger the eventual price of those at the top.
 
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