Skylake Prices 'Leaked'

[Nelly]

My first 2500K cost £149.99 inc vat in February 2011, but it was an average clocker - only did 4.5GHz, I then bought the one I'm currently using for £167.99 in November 2011, god knows why they went up 11% in the matter of 9 months!

Average inflation at say 3% would equate to £189.99 inc vat for an i5-6600K.

 

[McGraw]

Here's a case example. Build I helped a US friend with couple weeks ago:


XBOX One Controller
Samsung External DVD writer
Western Digital Desktop 1TB HDD
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD
Intel i7-4790K Retail
Asus Z87 Gryphon
EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB
Logitech K400 Wireless Keyboard/Touchpad
G.Skill Sniper 16GB (2x8GB) 2133MHz RAM
EVGA G2 650W Gold
Coolermaster N200 Micro-Atx case
Windows 7 Home Premium

All new. And after taxes and rebates (which make up for taxes plenty), grand total of $1,200.

That equated to £775 at the exchange rate a couple of weeks ago. Can you fit all that hardware into an under £1,000 spec in the UK? Nah.


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW "Plus Edition" ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-3978-KR) £299.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £289.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/16) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £79.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £77.99
1 x EVGA Supernova G2 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £74.99
1 x Seagate 1TB SATA-6Gb 7200rpm 64MB (1 Year Warranty) £34.99
Total : £947.53 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).



Nearly up to £1,000 already and missing motherboard, XBOX controller, wireless keyboard/touchpad, external DVD writer and case.

Sales tax? Depends on state but in their case they paid sales tax (6.25%) on three items (HDD, SSD, CPU) so far. If they were to pay tax on the rest, it would amount to $48.06, or £30.79.

So once all is said and done, you get a build like that for £300-£400 cheaper in the US.

I could knock £100 off that uk build but you're right it is more expensive here.

If you live near a Microcenter in the US then you are laughing for CPU prices.

 

[Danny75]

I could knock £100 off that uk build but you're right it is more expensive here.

If you live near a Microcenter in the US then you are laughing for CPU prices.

That's where they bought the CPU, SSD and HDD. And it was the only place with sales tax included. Still far cheaper than elsewhere.

 

[Flake87]

Well the Big US dealers haven't updated their pages yet, but I expect we will see a big difference between the US price for Skylake and the £300 we are being asked for in the UK.

 

[C64]

cheaper than I thought it would be makes 0 sense how they can justify the 4690 and 4790 prices now

 

[Nasher]

Damn I should start smuggling CPUs