I have to be honest, this is tempting the hell out of me.
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OnlyJoeKing
1 Dec 15#1
Coming up £197.74 for me, that's with €5.54 delivery. I'd probably have bitten at under £190....!
TheShadowWalker
1 Dec 15#2
this or i7 6700k, which has been £255 in prev deals. hmm
OnlyJoeKing to TheShadowWalker
1 Dec 151#3
There's apparently a shortage of the i7-6700K's at the moment. If I see one under £275 I'm sold. Otherwise I reckon it'll have to be the i5...
rev6 to TheShadowWalker
1 Dec 15#5
Depends if you need the extra threads for encoding, etc.
Danger781
1 Dec 15#4
Thanks OP. Been waiting on a good price for an i5.
gupsterg
1 Dec 15#6
rev6 do you think the extra threads will come into play for DX12 gaming?
Heat added OP! :wink:
regovaxe to gupsterg
1 Dec 151#9
Imho it's not worth the extra cost. You're looking at a 5-7% performance increase in gaming so an extra 3-5fps maybe. The major pro of the i7 is hyperthreading which is not utilised in most games and any upcoming games for the next year or few. I would only recommend the i7 if you're planning on running diff programs simultaneously ie gaming while performing scientific calculations etc to make use of the extra cores as that's one of the few scenarios in which you will see a difference.
rev6 to gupsterg
2 Dec 151#27
Yes, I've seen examples of it. But I don't believe the price difference is worth it. Unless you do other thread intensive work like virtual machine/encoding, things like that.
notos
1 Dec 151#7
Think I read somwhere on HUKD yesterday somone mentioning the 6600K for £129. Or was I imagining that?
Spark to notos
1 Dec 151#11
Maybe in about 5 years from now. :smile:
MoyesIsTheBest to notos
30 Dec 15#35
I am sure someone said they saw the 6600k in poundland or was that a dream? No I'm sure of it...
poopscoop to notos
30 Dec 15#49
I got mine for £155 because I ordered the 6600 when it was in stock but it became OOS. So I told them to send me the 6600K so they did and edited the price whilst I was online.
Doogeh
1 Dec 15#8
Hot. Unlikely to see it cheaper imminently.
There are shortages of these higher grade chips, and UK suppliers can't meet demand. to make matters worse Amd can't compete with Intel so they charge what they want.
Also the USD GBP exchange rate is balls at the moment, so it's keeping prices high.
Heard this through gibbo from Ocuk, sounded pretty reasonable.
Just bought a 6600k for 195 myself, wasn't too unhappy with that...
gupsterg
1 Dec 15#10
Thanks, did see the TechSpot CPU performance page & Anandtech, from those 2 it seems as res/settings go up CPU scaling occurs less. Shame both reviews are on early access / beta software.
Spark
1 Dec 15#12
I would personally prefer to move away from AMD FX but I'm unsure whether or not to stick with DDR3 and get a 4790k or just go the whole way and get this with a 1151 board.
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Heat added OP! :wink:
There are shortages of these higher grade chips, and UK suppliers can't meet demand. to make matters worse Amd can't compete with Intel so they charge what they want.
Also the USD GBP exchange rate is balls at the moment, so it's keeping prices high.
Heard this through gibbo from Ocuk, sounded pretty reasonable.
Just bought a 6600k for 195 myself, wasn't too unhappy with that...