OcUK DESTROYS COMPETITION ON SKYLAKE-X PRICING!

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For those who wanted a Coffee lake but cannot find one or have being put off by the inflated pricing due to shortage, we have another option for you, infact a very good option that offers just as good overclocking levels of performance but with a far better memory controller and quad channel support, yes its called X299 and Skylake X.

Check out these CPU prices which are vastly cheaper than the competition:


Intel Core i5-7640X 4.0GHz (KabyLake X / Basin Falls) Socket LGA2066 Processor - OEM @ £169.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...s-socket-lga2066-processor-oem-cp-63d-in.html



Quad Core Technology, 4GHz clock speed, 14nm Process, 6MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty



Only £169.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW






Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz (KabyLake X / Basin Falls) Socket LGA2066 Processor - OEM @ £239.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...s-socket-lga2066-processor-oem-cp-63e-in.html



Quad Core Technology, 4.30GHz clock speed, 14nm Process, 8MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty



Only £239.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW







Intel Core i7-7800X 3.5GHz (Skylake X / Basin Falls) Socket LGA2066 Processor - OEM @ £299.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...s-socket-lga2066-processor-oem-cp-63f-in.html



Hex Core Technology, 3.50GHz clock speed, 14nm Process, 8.25MB L3 Cache, Quad Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty



Only £299.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW





If you can find any UK source with product in stock for less, feel free to post up the link and we shall undercut the price. :)
 
They're in a kind of no mans land these CPUs, none of them offer anything over going Coffee Lake really apart from getting you on the HEDT platform for future upgrades. They're also outperformed by the Coffee Lakes which have cheaper mobos to boot.
 
jrwagh333 said:
It's such a strange one because by getting a Kaby only mobo you're entering into a deadend
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true, but £240 chip plus £150 mobo would be easier to swallow then having to pay for full x299 that you wont utilise fully - also the x299 platform could be like the others before and only have one generation on it .

price wise- it would stand against z270/370 platform nicely

just more options for a buyer
 
Oh yeah for sure, I understand it would be cheaper and all.

Kaby only mobo + 7740x seems to be a better option than a Z270 + 7700k
However you loose out on the iGPU with the 7740x which is kinda useful in some situations.

I just think the market will fill with SkylakeX in a couple years and that extra investment in getting a SkylakeX mobo will make your system last longer.
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
also the x299 platform could be like the others before and only have one generation on it
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Well to be fair, X79 had two generations - Sandy-E and Ivy-E and X99 also had two generations - Haswell-E and Broadwell-E. Of course we don't know if X299 will get another generation moving forward, or if both Skylake-X and Kaby-X count as the two for X299. I'd be surprised if it didn't get another though.

Good to see the 7800X at a decent price though :)
 
Phemo said:
Well to be fair, X79 had two generations - Sandy-E and Ivy-E and X99 also had two generations - Haswell-E and Broadwell-E. Of course we don't know if X299 will get another generation moving forward, or if both Skylake-X and Kaby-X count as the two for X299. I'd be surprised if it didn't get another though.

Good to see the 7800X at a decent price though :)
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I stand corrected :)
 
Can't say I'm surprised that these chips are needing price reductions to shift. Bizarre market segmentation decision by Intel to bring these out on the HEDT platform
 
Caracus2k said:
Can't say I'm surprised that these chips are needing price reductions to shift. Bizarre market segmentation decision by Intel to bring these out on the HEDT platform
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It looks very wrong to have to spend more on the motherboard than the cpu.

You look over at AMDs side and while the mobos are a similar £200-500 for TR4 theres no confusion because they only offer £500-800 chips for them.

It was called a bad plan before it launched.
 
Looks at my Core i7 Extreme Edition + X58 mobo I bought from you about 9 years ago still going strong & laughs at the lack of performance difference in all that time! Intel's tick tock strategy does not work for me at all ;)
 
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