Skylake price rise up?

[valentas]

Why does skylake cpus price going up ? whats going on ??

[Matt.]

The i7 6700K hasn't seemed to have moved from around the £320 mark. Don't know about the rest of the Skylake range mind you.

I'm waiting to make a bite once the price drops by £40.

[Herbtree]

which model are you referring to ?

[valentas]

6600k from £199 to £240.

[Matt.]

£209 on Scan

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel...5x-ratio-91w-c

[Herbtree]

oem £200
retail £220

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/c...ylake1151/?o=1

[pastymuncher]

The prices are obscene now. The i7 4770k was around £227 at launch and now we have a i5 at that price. It's just disgusting. Let's hope that AMD's Zen next year shakes things up a bit.

[kalniel]

The prices are obscene now. The i7 4770k was around £227 at launch and now we have a i5 at that price.

The 4770k also costs more than it used to. It's not lack of competition as much as currency/world market changes.

[Lee H]

Prices are on the increase at the moment I'm afraid.
The skylake shortages are driving up pricing for the processors at distribution level so this is why the 6600K and 6700K prices are climbing.
This in turn is pushing up the older processor prices as people are turning to Z97 platform and the i7 4790K instead and because the demand for these is now going up, supply price is creeping up.

[k-c]

Nearly a month later but the price of the i7-6700k has dropped considerably now to a much more reasonable price - £46 cheaper now Matt if you haven't snapped one up yet.. Ebuyer is selling it for £273.99! I think the new batches have just been arriving at the retailers hence the drop... hopefully more i5s start arriving soon for those of you waiting for those!

[Matt.]

It's dropped on Amazon too. I ended up getting mine from Play Asia, for £270 from Hong Kong.

[ceejays88]

6700k - 299 on Scan.
I have ordered mine, just waiting for a cooler to come into stock before its sent :/

[jeromesm3]

The customer demand of Skylake CPU's are very high at the moment hence the increase in price!

[mrgreen009]

I too was really interested in the 6700k, but blimey, some places have had it for £380! I bought my 4790k from scan for around £240!

[Lubo]

Currently I am sitting on a 2500k would like to upgrade , thinking of getting the ram and motherboard, not sure if I should go for the 6600k or 6700k brain says 6600k due to the price.

[WyldeStile]

I wonder if the prices will drop further once the MB get the bios upgrades that will enable overclocking the non-k versions.