That is because there isn't one.

Spoken to Ebuyer, they gave me some cock-and-bull story about they had placed the order for the CPU, but the supplier had cancelled so they cancelled it from my order and refunded me for the CPU. Apparently they're getting 50 in today and I could re-order from there, but I'd be charged 349.99 for the privilege, they wouldn't honour the lower price despite them having already charged me.

I've told them to arrange a courier and to collect all of the parts I have bought from them as part of this purchase and to provide me a full refund, and would encourage everyone else in my position to do the same - this kind of shoddy customer service should definitely not be encouraged. How can they arbitrarily cancel an order when they have already taken payment? Does this mean in the future I can order stuff and then when it arrives cancel payment?

I'm through with Ebuyer - they suck. Avoid like the plague - if the abysmal courier they use (Yodel) isn't enough to dissuade you, do you really want to entrust potentially thousands of pounds to a company this dishonest that tries to scam their customers?

JD

It's the features added to the motherboard that's good

Just shipped -- Now if only I could get my Motherboard shipped from Italy already... :smiley:

So today is the day; someone earlier in the thread said 6-8th Dec will be restock; anyone hear anything yet?

I'm thinking of just grabbing an i5 if this doesn't ship soon, since the prices went down recently. Might not need the extra threads anyway, but was happy about my shiny new chip.

Is anyone else still waiting on their flubit purchase?

I spent Total: £273.99 on 14/11/2015. It dropped to that price as soon as they ran out of stock.

I then ordered one from Ebuyer for the same price in case they didn't fulfil the order.

Ebuyer lied saying they weren't going to restock and would have to cancel my order.

I told them where to go and they kept the order open. In the end I cancelled with Ebuyer as Amazon gave me a delivery date.
My CPU just turned up today! Got there in the end!

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I cancelled my one for Ebuyer as I am having the Amazon one delivered Saturday. After speaking with that customer support woman making up that they aren't restocking I didn't think it was worth the risk having to deal with them any further.

I hope you guys get your CPUs!

Maybe keep the flubit offer open and see what happens in a few weeks unless u need the cash ofcourse. Don't think they will come down in price with in a few months as stock seems quite low unfortunately

I rang them today, they didnt say anything, said they would get back to me, thats twice now that they haven't..
I think I might just send back the motherboard and ram I also got from them back as I reckon once more stock comes the price would have come down anyway making it not such of a good deal after all.

Still haven't gotten mine from ebuyer, but I'm happy they didn't cancel/refund my order like they asked to.

I heard Dec 3rd somewhere, so hoping for something soon. Either way, got a great deal on a z170 gaming pro (93 GBP), but "arriving by the 18th of December" so I need to wait anyway. -- Maybe GPU prices will fall a bit in the meantime, last component I need.

still says awaiting despatch on flutbit.. says expected delivery 23th - 26th
I am highly doubtful they have saved me one.. or maybe they have to fulfil flubits orders as they work with them direct..

who knows.. but ill keep you updated

Has anyone revived there i7 yet?
Flu it said it was going to be another 3 weeks or possibly more

No worries. If anyone else is interested, let me know or I'll cancel it later today.

Not sure how you would "lose" out tbh, unless for the Ebuyer item that came with free P&P, you want me to pay for the shipping for the Aria item, then on top pay for shipping to me?

If thats the logic, then dont worry about it mate, I will let someone else stake a claim, or you can cancel it :smiley:

Collected (Leeds) unless you have other ideas, I don't want to lose out on this with Paypal fees and postage etc! The order status has switched from Processing back to Placed as they've changed it from a normal order to a pre-order; they've just sent me a note saying "Please be assured that once the item is available your order will be fulfilled as a priority. In the meantime please continue to check our website for updates." When I spoke to them on the phone they said the start of December but just before it became 'discontinued' it stated there was stock incoming on 27th Nov.

Would that be £287.93 delivered? Also, whats the order status on Ebuyer? Cheers

Still showing as awaiting dispatch with the same dates. I'll wait until the end of the week before contacting flubit but I'm guessing it won't arrive until the next ebuyer shipment which was mentioned as 6-8th December earlier in this thread.

I'd be after the Aria price (287.93 as they wouldn't do free postage on a superspecial) - I'm in Leeds.

any update?

Anyone interested in my ebuyer pre-order? My one from Aria is arrived and fitted so I'm about to cancel the ebuyer one if nobody wants it.

Yes the same. It originally said the 17th and got pushed back

same delivery estimate as me? 23-26?

I also ordered this last week using Flubit but it still hasn't been dispatched..

Meant to say but I didn't get time- I received mine and got it installed in my build on Friday. No issues.

Dont know if they would make you wait that long! Thats really bad if so. I have so far not had to use their after sales so hopefully I never have to. I have half a mind to complain anyway as it was meant to be delivered on the 17th!

That's awesome! Fingers crossed it works OK, Ebuyer's after sales service is one of the worst!

if it doesnt I wouldnt even entertain ebuyer just go straight to intel!

yup still no delivery for me.. flubit does say 23-26though(ordered on 14th) so.... who knows..

do you think theyd make me wait nearly 2 weeks to say its out of stock? if they do im going to go crazy!!

Just been delivered!!! And its the correct thing, 6700k skylake etc.

There is hope for people yet :smiley:

Just got to hope it works when I get the rest of my build together....

I spoke to yodel earlier and they have said it's in their warehouse and it will be delivered tomorrow.. Will let you know if that is the case!

I ordered mine from Amazon £273.99 November 14/11/2015 then from Ebuyer 15/11/2015. As soon as I spotted the deal on Amazon (it dropped in price once it went out of stock) I cancelled my order for a 6700 at £209.

Now I've got a Asus Maximus Hero just sitting there alongside a GSkill 8GB Ripjaws V waiting for the processor. I'm sure it'll be worth the wait in the end.

Good luck Maxwell689, hope it shows up.

I actually work in London most days, Bromley and Shadwell, I tend to cut through central! If I do end up with both I'll post on here.

Maverick - I got a phone call yesterday, which I missed as I was at work, and then a couple of hours later got an email saying my order had been cancelled due to the £273.99 actually being a pricing error, but that I could pay the higher price of £283 excluding VAT if I still wanted to buy it. Obviously I didn't take them up on their offer! I then got an email 1 hr 30 after that saying it had left their warehouse (maybe it was too late in the delivery process for them to stop the ball rolling!?). According to my tracking number it's now at the Yodel depot, so I am keeping my fingers crossed! Hopefully the same happens to you too :smiley: I did order mine quite a while before you so maybe they did run out of stock in the meantime though...

I called them again and they said they'd hold it until the next shipment, lets see.

If you do end up getting both, what are the chances I can buy the extra off of you? I'm in London. :smiley:

Congrats to those that got it shipped.

Thanks for the heads up btw! :smiley:

Still waiting, still processing

I had a similar problem with dabs when I order a gtx980 for a seriously low price, they kept fobbing me off and cancelled it without saying anything to me.

I called Ebuyer a while ago about my 6700k to find out if it would be delivered today. The same woman tried saying that rubbish to me also! I said it's a new processor that's a lie I'll wait for it to restock! She said we are not going to restock. I said that's **** and hung up on her!

I ordered from Amazon and Ebuyer at this price just in case this happened! Amazon will have stock on the 26th Nov, I spoke to them specifically about this mentioning Ebuyers price to ensure they honoured fulfilling the deal! I'm just going to hold out for whoever delivers it first then either cancel one of the orders or resell on ebay if they both come at once.

Since the call it says Your current order status » Order Placed -> Awaiting Dispatch

Well. Mine has been delivered. I ordered just before I posted this deal.

I ordered mine on Saturday 14 Nov at 11pm, ebuyer just called and told me they need to cancel my order as it's out of stock. I told them no, I could have ordered from Amazon or Aria, but chose them.

It wasn't a pre-order when I placed it... But I told them to keep it as one and send it to me when they get more. They told me they can't do that and that it'd be 3 weeks. I told them that's fine. Then they said, no sorry, we won't even get the item anymore... I told them that's rubbish, this is a new processor line, of course they will. She kept saying no and I asked to be transferred.

Unfortunately, I'm on a business trip, so can't stay on hold for 30min while roaming...

I checked the site, the order is still there in processing. Anything I can do? I don't care when I get it, but I don't want them to cancel it... I could have gotten it for a similar price from amazon/Aria and am in no mood to pay 390gbp for one.

Wow!

Looks like I just managed to grab the last SuperSpecial from Aria for 280 quid...

JD

Well my ebuyer order now says shipped and the yodel tracking is saying they are about to receive it from them for delivery tomorrow... Based on the above.. I will believe it when I see it. Has anyone actually received one from ebuyer?!

What a mess this is, sometimes it seems like you can't even waste your money on an obscenely expensive piece of overpowered technology no matter how hard you try.

They're obviously getting fed up of this! Now it says the 6700K has been discontinued...
Aria one seems to be on its way, so if nobody wants my ebuyer preorder I'll put them out of their misery and cancel.

My tracking hasn't changed since last night..just rang them and apparently it was sent using the wrong service and won't be with me until tomorrow. I wonder if they've done that to save some money...

I wouldn't trust Ebuyer, they'll most likely cancel it and offer you one at a higher price :disappointed:

JD

Well, Aria have managed to dispatch as promised (unlike eBuyer) and the 6600K is on its way back.
My eBuyer order is still 'processing', and when I spoke to eBuyer they suggested they would (eventually) fulfil it.
Should I cancel this order or is anyone interested in it? It'd probably have to be cash, for the Aria price; I'm in Leeds.

Surely once they have taken your money they are obligated to supply?

JD

I'm really sorry to hear that :disappointed: I thought that something like that would happen, only with Flubit rather than Ebuyer.

Spoken to Ebuyer, they gave me some cock-and-bull story about they had placed the order for the CPU, but the supplier had cancelled so they cancelled it from my order and refunded me for the CPU. Apparently they're getting 50 in today and I could re-order from there, but I'd be charged 349.99 for the privilege, they wouldn't honour the lower price despite them having already charged me.

I've told them to arrange a courier and to collect all of the parts I have bought from them as part of this purchase and to provide me a full refund, and would encourage everyone else in my position to do the same - this kind of shoddy customer service should definitely not be encouraged. How can they arbitrarily cancel an order when they have already taken payment? Does this mean in the future I can order stuff and then when it arrives cancel payment?

I'm through with Ebuyer - they suck. Avoid like the plague - if the abysmal courier they use (Yodel) isn't enough to dissuade you, do you really want to entrust potentially thousands of pounds to a company this dishonest that tries to scam their customers?

JD

WTF?

I've just had a look at my order status and it shows my order is complete - they have removed the I7-6700K from my order!

Just about to ring them and bend their ear, this is completely unacceptable!

When you go to the product page, between the retailers and price history.



:smile:

The Sku is Retail and the pictures on the site also show retail box.

Are those retail? Just asking in case people don't realise they're buying oem and miss out on the 3 year retail warranty. Hopefully they are retail though!

No stock at the moment but you may want to create an alert for More Computers - £268.03 including free delivery:

http://www.morecomputers.com/product.aspx?pn=BX80662I76700K&man=Intel&SQ=aTcgNjcwMGs%3d

Don't want to post it as a deal because it would create a mad rush whenever they do get stock.

Aria have/had one of these left in stock in SuperSaver, but increased the price to £280 so it's £293 including postage... Being supersaver means you're not allowed free delivery. I guess I've got to pass on that, that's paying over the odds still.

I have yet to be so lucky! Hopefully tomorrow :s

Mine just shipped.

Increasingly frustrated. After telling me on the phone they had none, it's now marked as '12 in stock' at the eyewatering price of £513.99

I remember at one time being part of the free delivery club, have they stopped that? Sorry to hear about your non-dispatch :disappointed:

I keep getting an alert from Partpicker saying it's gone under my threshold of £280 at Aria when in fact it's out of stock. It's playing with my heart, man.

I ordered at 08:19 on Saturday (before it was posted here) - got my dispatch email at 17:00.

Got my despatch email. Gotta be faster than fast I guess guys.

Ended up canceling the order an snagging a super special on aria, never used em before so i take a punt end up paying £14 more but eh worth it considering i have other parts arriving from other companies.

For those people looking at the aria page and feeling a bit :disappointed: aria does something a little unusual with some of its super specials its stock level is different to the actual item on offer, because the item is usually available else where on site so even though it says 0 stock on the offer later on they might add 1 or 2 more I've been watching it for the past couple of days and seen the stock level hit zero on that offer more than once so keep an eye on it you never know.

I've just had a despatch notification. Looks like it will arrive on schedule.

Wahh I want to cry, I would totally have gone for it at that price. I have a partpicker account but I can't figure out how you do a price alert? There's no options to do that anywhere, except there's a price drop section that signs you up to a newsletter with prices for every cpu.
Edit: ohhhhhh, you have to click on the actual picture of it then scroll down, I was trying to do it from the parts list.

I received an email from customer support a few minutes ago informing me I'd been allocated one from today's stock, mine's changed to processing now. Hopefully you guys get yours sorted out as this is a bit of a mess!

My order acknowledgment suggests I ordered about 2 minutes before you; I used PayPal and free shipping - and it changed to 'processing' on Monday. However the guy I just spoke to says that actually no stock appears to have been allocated to me despite that change. I wonder why yours never changed?

Edit: this is really bloody annoying. They're now saying 'in stock' at the stupid high price; presumably they just have no interest in fulfilling the cheaper orders?

Not impressed. Just spoke to them - despite it being 'in stock' when I ordered (just before I found this thread so fairly early on I think), and a delivery arriving today, I won't be getting mine until another delivery, currently scheduled for 6-8th December. Weird as my order had actually changed from 'Placed' to 'Processing' which they claim means stock has been allocated.

In other news I now actually have a 6600K which I was planning on sending back (it also took weeks to arrive and I thought I'd cancelled it!) - not sure whether to just build with the 6600K or hang around to see if ebuyer manage to extract their digits. Not impressed with their ability to keep their stock figures updated!

I've just had an Enote from them saying the reason I hadn't had my CPU yet was that it was a pre-order and they were expecting some in this morning but they hadn't had any delivered yet...

When I ordered (on Sunday) it said in stock and my delivery would be Tuesday (I had a free postage voucher for my account). I also ordered another component, this was also due on Tuesday but as Yodel were carrying it, it arrived today. If I'd known they were using Yodel (they're not listed as a courier that Ebuyer use) I wouldn't have bothered as they're terrible in the area where I live.

So far, I'm feeling pretty underwhelmed by Ebuyer.

I've got a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ in my build at the minute, and it took my i7 2600k from 3.4 to 4.4ghz without much work...so they're really good coolers. I went with an AIO water one this time though :smiley:

Yeah good point, that looks like a good deal with the free assasins creed game too! I also googled your case (the R5) and have decided to get that instead....looks awesome! Will probably go for that, and the 970 and will look into whether the budget can stretch to some faster memory.

Just want the processor to arrive first haha!

About the GPU, I bought my MSI 970 GTX at Amazon and got to choose a free copy of Assassins Creed Syndicate or Tom Clancys Rainbow 6 Siege. But I'm not a hardcore gamer anymore but apparently it runs pretty much any game quite well.

I might get a 'faster' memory - for maybe something like £20 you can get a Trident Z 3200mhz or a Ripjaws V - It wont be much faster I guess, but why not?

Im going fomr a laptop too! With a similar build in mind....
Intel Core i7-6700K 4GHz Socket 1151 8MB L3 Cache
Asus Z170 Delux
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2666MHz C16 Memory Kit - Black 1.2V
Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window
Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD
Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD
LG WH14NS40 Blu-ray Writer Optical Drive 14X BDR
Cougar GX V3 600W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Radeon R9 390 "DD Black Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler

I have not settled on the GPU thou, thats just my current thought.....any opinions on my build are welcome...its my first real 'build' from scratch so not sure what GPU to go for around the £300 range (waiting for Black Friday).

Nice one! :wink:

I'm currently using a laptop, so had to buy all new apart from my SSD.

MSI GTX 970
Asus Z170 Deluxe
16GB (2x8 GB) G.Skill Trident Z 3200mhz DDR4
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Western Digital Black 3TB HDD
Cooler Master 212 evo (looks pretty cr*p, hope it's good)
Fractal Define R5
EVGA Supernova G2 650W

:smile:

GTX 980, Akasa 750w PSU, Corsair 128GB SSD, 1.5TB storage drive (keeping these from my current PC).
Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero Mobo.
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 SSD.
16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance.
Corsair H110i GT cooler.
Fractal Define R5.

Yours? :smiley:

You're not the only one. I've got everything sitting here, based upon ordering this, and now this is the only part I don't have!

It can't hurt?

The most common reason I hear for the inflated UK price is that demand is outstripping supply, so I doubt the new Skylake CPUs will appear in any Black Friday sale, or at least not the unlocked K-series. Haswell, perhaps, who knows. Still wondering if the Ebuyer price wasn't a mis-price meant for the non-K version. What made me suspicious is that such a big price discount didn't appear on their email promotions circular that day. Keen to hear if Ebuyer deliver, so will keep checking back, here!

Do you think its worth me calling them too to make sure that I get allocated one of them?

Lets keep us updated and hope we get it this week. Sounds silly but I bought all my computer and everything arrived apart from the CPU and really want to spend the weekend setting it up. Fingers crossed.

I've just been on the phone with them again, and he assured me that they had received some this morning but that they hadn't been allocated yet, and that they were due to receive some more this afternoon. He said I should get one from one of these 2 batches. He apparently got that from his manager, so hopefully that's true.

Just spoke with them and apparently it will be back on stock only on the 7th of December.

I ordered mine on Saturday too. It still just says order placed.

I would double check with them before ordering. I've ordered mine on Saturday morning and still as 'order placed'.

mine still says awaiting dispatch but because its from ebuyer im guessing its going to be a long wait as whenever I ordered free shipping its like ebuyer intentionally do not send your parcel out for like a week because you choose free delivery

Hmmm... my order status changed yesterday from 'Placed' to 'Processing' - according to their site, 'Processing' means they've allocated stock. I'm on free delivery with ETA Friday.
I've been sat here with the rest of my new PC for weeks! Spent ages waiting for a 6600K which has finally arrived and am about to send it back - hoping ebuyer comes through!

Just got a message saying they will receive it at the end of this week. Sounds that they are selling something they can't deliver. When I google search for reviews of ebuyer.com comes Rating: 9.3/10 & Rating: 4.8 - ‎36,074 reviews. Maybe we're in the 0.8 %?

Mine is still awaiting dispatch with my order status as 'Order Placed'. It says on there that they expect more stock on 18th November. So we shall see if it ships tomorrow!

​I went for free delivery and my order still shows as processing - no indication of pre-order. I have ordered from ebuyer about 10 times and had 4 problems, none of which were handled very well. Much prefer to deal with Amazon.

I've ordered it on Saturday morning and noticed that my order wasn't shipped yet. So I dropped them and eNote and got and answer saying that I did a pre-order for the product. I'm sure when I bought it was in stock and what is a bit upsetting is that they said that it was a pre-order. I also paid extra for next day delivery and confirmed that I would receive by the 17th.

Actually I paid extra on all other parts from different retailers for next day delivery and now I'll have everything apart from the CPU.

I avoid to buy from Amazon because all the giant corporation stuff ... but I had a problem with my order delivery and they sorted it very quickly for me. Got all my products delivered by today.

I got an email saying they aren't in stock. However, I rang them and he says they have some due in on wednesday and he was allocating me one (if you can believe that- we'll see!).

I really hope they do though, I ordered all of the rest of the stuff I needed and most of it's coming tomorrow/ some came today. I'll be really annoyed if they cancel it, because I'll have to return the other items at my own cost.

mine still says awaiting dispatch I guess you was too late as I ordered nearly 2 days before you did, its just a case of keeping stock for people in the front of the queue I guess, bad luck man!

My Flubit order got cancelled due to 'lack of stock' when really I think they just didn't want to honour it at £60 less than the current price. Good job I didn't order any other parts. I'm totally gutted now because this means no new PC. Stuck with my Q6600 system for a (long?) while to come.

The price is now £360, which is in line with a lot of other places in the UK. Oh, well. I'm curious, did anyone get one dispatched at the £273 price? If so, it would be good to read that you received a 6700K and not the non K version, which happened with an inaccurate listing on Amazon not long ago. Amazon finally changed the listing to i7 6700, but only after a lot of complaints in the customer comments section. Hopefully Ebuyer hasn't messed up, here. Let us know!

I got an email earlier saying it was processed, they had taken payment and it was moving through the warehouse etc... So seems like it's moving along? But yeah.. It's back up to 300++ again so I'm glad I ordered! Surprised this didn't get hotter tbh.

Any idea what the ebuyer order statuses are? Mine still says 'order placed' - I'm just concerned they may have over-sold their stock!

price has gone up to 318 now

The stock number actually dropped from 92 today, which might be promsing that it is all not broken?

mine says awaiting disptach... no idea but ebuyer must of sold atleast 150-200 since the drop

Cool! I think I'll hold off on ordering the rest of the PC until this definitely ships xD

also got 256 but kept trying and got 253 but I already purchased for 256 and really could not be bothered having the hassle of cancelling to save £3

I got a price of £256 now, I think I'll go for that, and hope that they don't cancel it. I think that at this point eBuyer are way way oversubscribed on this too

yeah it is cheeky and no its not oem its boxed, I think it has to do with if you've purschased alot so if you have they dont give much discount but if you've only a few or your new I think they give you better discounts which is bs imo.

​Yeah I hope we did. Now just to get motherboard, ram, GPU and case etc etc!

Cheeky that they offer people such varying prices. It /has/ to be the same product right? Because the Ebuyer one is boxed and comes with a 3 year warranty (I'm assuming with Intel rather than ebuyer), if what Flubit send is OEM it only has 1 year warranty.

I want to find a reason to upgrade to this over 4790k but I cant find it

​Oh yeah! Ram is on my price alert but not my parts list :stuck_out_tongue: (is now) I'm thinking Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 of some speed.

£251.74 for me.

https://i.imgur.com/SsQ0HDI.png

What's the deal with where it says 'Heatsink and fan not included'... would you need to buy these separately?

He was asking if it was socket LGA 2011 fool not the year... The blind trying to lead the not so blind

260 for me,they obviously don't like me :smile:

You could say the exact same thing about the i7-6700K. Most people would be fine with slower and cheaper processors.

If you are buying this processor you're obviously not an average user since they wouldn't need an overclockable 4C/8T 'K' processor. :smiley:

I've used flubit for a few PC parts, like Ram, AIO Cooler, PSU and a Case. No problems whatsoever. Delivery was quite fast as well.

Aaaahhhh starting a totally new build and I had told myself to wait till Black Friday, but this came up and i just ordered it as I cant see it getting cheaper than this. Hopefully I was right!

Flubit usually uses Fireworks Merchant which I believe belongs to them, it's flubit in disguise. They return anything within 14 days and you have a year warranty. It's obviously not amazon, some people had bad experience with them, some people were ok. I have been lucky enough so far and never had to return anything. They were mainly fishing rods and such. :smiley:

Hey! sorry for a late reply, I have never used Flubit before actually, but have seen it spoken about quite a lot on here so thought I would give it ago!

Flubit came back with £251. I'm seriously tempted.

What sort of memory are you going for? I don't see it on that list. :smiley:

Managed to get this for £250.48 with Flubit.

So tempted to start a new build with this.....can i really justify coming from my 3570k to this?

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Gregoriath/saved/CzWqqs sort of ballpark spec.

Could take away the screen and OS if you have one. I already have an EVGA 850w psu (£99) and 1tb hdd for storage so they are missing.

I'm looking to build with a similar budget, what other components did you go for?

if doing a complete re-build go with this cpu or any other Skylake for futureproof of ddr4 & 1151 m/b

^^

dam q6600 is ancient im not sure you should get the i7 6700k you might get a big shock :smile:
seriously like you might be better off going with a i5 instead, will still run laps around the q6600

My pc is a Q6600 basically on life support with an SSD and 8gb of ram. As my pc is so old, is this the chip to get when building something new? I do mostly music production, a bit of games and video. No heatsink and fan? So much to think about and so little time to order. '100+ people are about to buy this'

Thank you, PC noob, starting to familiarise with pc parts will soon be building a gaming PC

Something like this? http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-z170-a-intel-z170-s-1151-ddr4-satae-sata3-6gb-s-m2-pcie-30-sli-crossfire-vga-dp-dvi-hdmi-atx-mo

This or the 5820k, plan to OC via H100i

Let's see what flubit has to say about this :smiley:

That SSD is a pointless upgrade for the majority of home usage cases which aren't bottlenecked by much cheaper SATA SSDs. If you are driving down the M4 at 75 the fact that you car can hit 170 is irrelevant. Some people are easily seduced by benchmarks that have little to no bearing on real world usage.

Is this a 2011 chipset?

I paid £325 for this only a week ago!

Thanks OP, now I am sad :disappointed:

just found this which is surprising, this may well tempt me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5lfMogcrPU

thanks OP.

I've been reading all the differences (and sometimes "non" differences) between this chip and previous chips - but I find myself in the position that I need to do a new build. So have taken the plunge with this. Now to source some of the other parts I need (namely motherboard, ram and gpu - I've got all the other bits)...

in stock and great price. Hot!!!

It's the features added to the motherboard that's good

Yep. I took the plunge on the 5820k back in May as Skylake was just being delayed and the rumours didn't sound good... looks like I was right.

Unless you need the 4 extra PCI-e lanes, there's no real reason. I think the average clocking 6700k goes to around 4.7 (from what I have seen at least), but I'm pretty happy with my 5820k @ 4625MHz tbh, and at the current rate of progress I see myself keeping this for the next 3-5 years.

I always upgrade everytime intel release a new mainstream chip.. this time I really cant see it

if skylake was a good overclocker and could hit 5hz easy I would of had one by now but most struggle to get 4.6 when ive already got the 4790k @ 4.8 its hard to see the point

that is a great price, mine is OC to 4.5 with no problems at all, remember you need a good cooler and a Z170 board if you want to get your moneys worth

Just ordered mine too!

Here's a quick benchmark - http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790K/3502vs2384

Should have known the Amazon was a price match. Good find! Is there some reason Amazon struggle to get stock from Intel, it seems to happen a lot with the i5 6600K and i7 6700K, or at least at direct from Amazon/decent price points. At last, a faintly sane price, if you were going the LGA 1151 platform route, anyway.

same price as Amazon but this is available now!