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What's the difference, why is no one buying?
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That's a fair point, thanks!
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They also have a few hundred of them aswell, wont go oos so fast
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Plus the 8400 so far shows in benchmarks equal performance for less money.
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OCuk have cheekily put up prices by £20 on the 8400
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No worries but upping your price by £20 when others were already selling it cheaper to begin with is not good for your customers, it makes it look like price gouging.
If this is true why is it far cheaper, surely the 8600k must do something better for the price.
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It does perform better in some games and applications, also I'm sure it will age much better than the 8400.
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Nearly £300 for 6 threads, yeah no thanks.
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As others have said its to do with the warranty! 3 years is worth the extra money.... from my understanding intel will just replace it for new if it breaks.
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Primarily due to how turbo boost works it looks better on paper (all-core turbo makes the 8400 have very similar base clock really, but that's not what the advertising spec looks like), and people equate spending more with getting more so assume it's worth the extra. Intel want to make more monies so don't want to dissuade people of this view, but also need to compete in lower-priced segments hence have both products.
The main advantage the 8600k has is being unlocked. This gives some gains if willing to overclock, and also means if turbo isn't playing nicely you can do something about it (the 8400 relies on this to bring it's speed up)
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Don't overclockers bin oem cpu's and keep the highest clocking ones for the bundles?
That's a subject that's been beat to death. OcUK will never admit to that but many ppl that is the way it go's. All I know is every oem cpu I have had as been a bad clocker but this could also be down to Intel putting the better cpu's in boxs and selling system builder the lower performing oem cpu's
Oem is not worth it now days. The last one I got was £30 cheaper and was be delidded so warranty was not a problem.
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No they are not. This has been covered 10 times at least.
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I really think someone at Overclockers needs to write a sticky post about this.