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About LinkBacksI was buying an 8600k about 2 months ago at £210inc vat. Then suddenly the next day it was £240 and I thought it would come back down but its now over £320 inc vat. No way these cpu's are going to be anywhere near rrp discounted.
I was buying an 8600k about 2 months ago at £210inc vat. Then suddenly the next day it was £240 and I thought it would come back down but its now over £320 inc vat. No way these cpu's are going to be anywhere near rrp discounted.
Rather glad that I bought my I7-8700K before the prices rocketed skywards and did not wait for this refresh. Got to laugh really.
Live long and prosper.
Oh goody, over twice the price of a 2700X. Admittedly I'm not going to completely rule out a 9700k, it depends on my itch to upgrade, whether I put it off and to some degree if meltdown and spectre is fixed at the hardware level and how it overclocks considering it now uses solder again.
Edit, Nvm, that's was based on the price in the article which is likely meant to be a dollar value without tax added, at £500 the chances are that I'll just look forward to AMDs next release.
Last edited by FRISH; 09-10-2018 at 04:20 PM.
I love how by pushing the "it's soldered" line, they are also actually happily admitting that their thermal paste route has been a poor choice all this time.
Iota (09-10-2018)
Looks like the red team are getting quite a lot of cash from me. First Nvidia are giant Thomas Cooks (see latest aeroplane painting story) of the highest order and push me to AMD and now Intel are just outright lying as well as playing silly boggers with their prices.
Iota (09-10-2018)
*best expensive gaming processor
So, where the naming convention for desktop has gone, on desktop at least i3, 2C/4T, i5 4C/4T, i7 4C/8T, they've just changed it all over again?
I just upgraded from an i5-2500k to an i7-6700k and I'm not too dissapointed with going used.
Z390 still doesn't support PCIe 4.0 and overclocking without LN is underwelming. Even reviews are saying that it isn't worth it.
Intel have completely priced me out now. £600 is a joke. I'd have to 100% go with AMD now! Luckily not looking to get anything until around this time next year tbh, so maybe things will be improved by then. If things get worse though, I might just say goodbye to PC gaming, what with graphics cards going sky-high too. It's getting to the point of being utterly ridiculous
I recently upgraded from an i5-2500k because I was haveing issues with stability, not performance. Prices may be high, but from a performance perspective it is no longer worth while to upgrade regularly. Even GPU gains are much smaller than they used to be. As long as you don't increase your resolution you can go years without needing to upgrade.
More interested in getting AMD next time I need to shop for PC parts to be honest... though personally am not a fanboy of either brand out there, I just go with what is best... and if the second best is just like not noticeable away from the other then I go by that, simple as that as it is.
Some of the statements up there I am not so sure about and as for what am getting next time I am having a major upgrade only time will tell.
Ryzen has both CPU complexes on the same die, that is just a detail about how the cores talk to each other and the world around them. So both are a single die and you are wrong, happy to helpOriginally Posted by will19565
In case you are interested, Intel's design suffers at large core counts so this is just another example of AMD designing their CPUs primarily for server use.
Yes, you're wrongBut good effort. Intel themselves marketed dual die products as a single CPU in the past with their Pentium D range.
no, you are completely right from a factual standpoint, but as a singular package most people are going to disagree as ryzen has been here for 2 years
Wow so much hate in this thread. The AMD bias on Hexus is crazy whether its GPU's or CPUs...I assume this is again based on price.
Personally I am looking forward to the benchmarks on this when we see them in a few weeks,and then I can decide what to upgrade to. My motherboard is having issues and needs replacing, so at some point soon my 6700k is going to get swapped out.
I'll take a look at the benchmarks of these chips and make a choice from there. It likely will be between a (hopefully slightly discounted?) 8700k or the overpriced 9700k...unless AMD release a Ryzen chip in the meantime that is faster. Unlikely but I wouldn't shut the door on Ryzen chips if AMD decide to release one thats as good as the Intel offerings.
Meh,I just upgraded my rig with a Ryzen 5 2600,a high end mini-ITX motherboard and 16GB of 3200MHZ of single ranked B-die RAM,and together with a 500GB M2 PCI-E drive,I would still have £80 left over,when compared to the purchase price of the Core i9 9900k which also has no cooler too. Definitely I am not PCMR and my E-PEEN is at shockingly small levels!!
If people want to spend £600 to make their E-PEEN bigger good for them(I suppose there ain't no price on happiness as the song says) - especially for such casual things like gaming, and when games which are truly CPU limited at normal resolutions are generally those which don't even scale well past 4 cores. This is my own experience from actually playing very CPU limited games.
However all those people all the time upgrading every gen do create a good secondhand market so I suppose you help many people so thanks!
If I was spending £600 it would be for more important non-gaming workloads although YMMV OFC. Something like Threadripper or a socket 2011 CPU makes more sense than a deadend consumer platform and even then another year from now both Intel and AMD will have gone to a new node,and it will probably make an 8C CPU look a bit pedestrian.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 09-10-2018 at 11:01 AM.
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