Cheaper than anywhere in UK, might help someone. Enjoy:)
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Amazing performance and stunning visuals at their best. Get top-of-the-line performance for your most demanding tasks with a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor. For a difference you can see and feel in HD and 3-D, multitasking and multimedia, the 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor is perfect for all your most demanding tasks. Effortlessly move through applications with smart multitasking from Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. Enjoy the thrill of an automatic burst of speed when you need it with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. Experience your movies, photos, and games smoothly and seamlessly with a suite of built-in visual enhancements-no extra hardware required.
Sorry, I meant move away from AMD. I have an AMD FX-8350 at the moment and I think it's bottlenecking in games.
I'm perfectly happy with my GTX 970 card. :smiley:
liveinabin
1 Dec 15#15
Good deal. If you're after pure Ghz speed, this is still the best chip you can get. For example, I have a gaming PC that also doubles as an arcade cab, so emulators feature pretty heavily in my setup. Emulators don't tend to utilise multiple cores much (and many ignore the GPU) so this chip is perfect.
As for PC gaming, I'm running this with a gtx 970 and it's absolutely devouring Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 with everything set to ultimate.
looneychoonz74
30 Nov 15#14
Good price, just picked up for £223 (converstion rates?)
cheers for the heads up Zed :smiley:
BodgeItAndScarper
30 Nov 15#13
The i5 4690K is 209.90 Euro`s (£148..ish). See link above.
Quite tempting.
mickmartin16
30 Nov 15#11
When will this take CPU take a serious price dip?
I thought the release of skylake would cause this to go sub £200.:confused:
Spark
29 Nov 15#9
I think I'm just going to hold out for the 6600k. I want to move away from Nvidia but the DDR4 prices are just too high atm.
Nate1492 to Spark
30 Nov 15#10
Why move away from NVIDIA if they offer superior products that don't require a boatload of CPU? I would be concerned that this CPU issue will re-appear down the road as it has already shown it's head that AMD can bottleneck the CPU much easier.
rev6
29 Nov 15#8
Good price.
malachi
29 Nov 15#7
Good price, as all Intel CPU's are at silly prices at the moment.
rich2086
29 Nov 15#6
I was hoping for a deal on the i5 6600k but its quite new still so doubt there will be anything major
regovaxe
29 Nov 15#4
Do you think there might be a better deal for this or an i5 4690k tomorrow because its cyber monday?
jimbob12 to regovaxe
29 Nov 15#5
At amazon France its about £150, not sure about delivery costs though and I converted the price using google, but it shouldn't be too far off that
I've just looked at the 4690k and its 288 Euros which equates to about £195 depending on the rate. It's just under £175 on Amazon UK
cowsindahouse
29 Nov 15#1
is this better than a skylake 6700? I'm pretty confused by all these processors
K1LLER HORNET to cowsindahouse
29 Nov 153#2
This 4790K is using an older socket type, Haswell LGA 1150 whereas Skylake/6700(K) is using the latest 1151 socket.
Skyline is using a smaller manufacturing process too so should be lower wattage and higher overclocking potential if you go with a K series chip and Motherboard.
Skylake also uses DDR4 so potentially more performance if used in certain circumstances.
I'd only recommend going for this if you're upgrading an older system or can find a good deal on a Haswell/1150 Motherboard.
If you're building a brand new PC then just go with Skylake.
Hope this cleared up some of your confusion.
rossaw to cowsindahouse
29 Nov 151#3
The 6700k replaced this. 6700k is a bit better, and newer platform brings ddr4 and stuff. It's a lot more money though, so the choice is yours
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Amazing performance and stunning visuals at their best. Get top-of-the-line performance for your most demanding tasks with a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor. For a difference you can see and feel in HD and 3-D, multitasking and multimedia, the 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor is perfect for all your most demanding tasks. Effortlessly move through applications with smart multitasking from Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. Enjoy the thrill of an automatic burst of speed when you need it with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. Experience your movies, photos, and games smoothly and seamlessly with a suite of built-in visual enhancements-no extra hardware required.
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I'm perfectly happy with my GTX 970 card. :smiley:
As for PC gaming, I'm running this with a gtx 970 and it's absolutely devouring Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 with everything set to ultimate.
cheers for the heads up Zed :smiley:
Quite tempting.
I thought the release of skylake would cause this to go sub £200.:confused:
Link: Your text here
Skyline is using a smaller manufacturing process too so should be lower wattage and higher overclocking potential if you go with a K series chip and Motherboard.
Skylake also uses DDR4 so potentially more performance if used in certain circumstances.
I'd only recommend going for this if you're upgrading an older system or can find a good deal on a Haswell/1150 Motherboard.
If you're building a brand new PC then just go with Skylake.
Hope this cleared up some of your confusion.