Oh wow so it takes about a month. Thank you for the follow up.

Whent into my account today, got email yesterday saying it's been paid by bank transfer.

Yeah will do

Let me know when it arrives :smiley:

It did say payment within 30 days, not worried just yet :disappointed:

Oh wow almost 4 weeks and it's still not there?! Oh dear :neutral_face:

Not in my account yet, hopefully not much longer.

Turns out I was on the wrong page (I simply googled Asus cashback and tried the first link). It works and validated now. How long did it take for it to appear in your bank account? Thanks

Tried it just now and working for me, when did you purchase your item?

My cashback has just been validated, very easy process :smiley:

Damn I bought my asus hero at about 7pm on the 13th of Decemeber and had it on prime for delivery on the 14th. They are more than likely tight with the cash back but might ask them If they will do it for me because its only afew hours before the start.

Ccl computers are also offering an asus front panel on top of cash back. Front panel adds USB 3.1 type c ports to your computer.

http://www.cclonline.com/page/asus-front-panel/

Yep, but other sites are also now showing participation.

Link:- http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/landing.aspx?page=Asus-Cashbackhase

By me linking Eclipse I'm not endorsing purchase from them, seen bad reviews for them but my "one-off" purchase experience been good from them.

Still not received email back from Asus promo support guy about eligible etailers but will fire him another ...

I'd assume the retailers listed under "where to buy" on the Asus website would all be authorised, so that includes:

Amazon
Insight
Overclockers
Dabs
ebuyer
Novatech
CCL

Personally I'd stick with the i5 2500k rig. Even if you get a 970 I can't see it getting bottlenecked.

IMO you wouldn't be using the extra features Skylake platform bring to table (nor would I!LOL).

If you read some reviews of say CPU gens between yours and Skylake you'll be able to assess what increase in IPC (instructions per clock) there have been.

IIRC on Bit Tech review of Skylake CPU they do section if your on Sandy Bridge they're comparative/thoughts. If not it may have been in CPC review (will check).

Yeah, not much of a stepup with having a 4690K @ 4.9GHz. It's funny that, I'm currently using a i5 2500K @ 4.9GHz with an MSI Z77 MPower motherboard and G.Skill Trident 8GB 2400C10.

I'm still on Windows 7, but I bought Windows 8.1 PRO when I was a student for £40, so I was thinking of doing a new rig and upgrading the key to Windows 10 PRO. I'm looking at getting a GTX 970 temporary until the mid-range pascal cards are released for around £300, I'm hoping for 980Ti performance.

Been a CPC subscriber since issue 1, built systems based on their reviews for myself & others who have ever asked me to do a build.

Personally I'd go Maximus VIII Ranger and use saved £££ to enhance another aspect of rig, for example GPU or cooling, etc OR I'd just pocket it and use for a future upgrade.

How I see it the Maximus VIII Ranger deal on CCL is the best, board cost £111 ish after cashback and I'd ebay the USB 3.1 front panel when I'd get say final value fees discount. I doubt very much they'll be anything like the CCL deal on the horizon very soon. Lets say you manage £35 via ebay for front panel, my estimate is with say a 50% final value promo you'd net £27 after fees + P&P. SO £111 - £27= £84.

I did the same with my Maximus VII Ranger, it came with a Asus Front base panel. Bundle price was £133.49 (deal was posted on HUKD early 15), sold the panel for £45, netted £37, so in the end paid about £96 for mine.

Last night I was so tempted to pull the trigger on one, if my i5 4690K didn't OC to 4.9GHz CPU 4.4GHz Cache with 2400MHz RAM @ 1T I'd have probably ebay'd my current setup and taken a silicon lottery punt with a i5 6600K.

I had no idea about this promotion, but as luck would have it I bought a Maximus Ranger VIII from Amazon on 16th December.

Many thanks OP. :sunglasses:

No worries.

I'll be honest I only see 2x deals with DDR 4 bundled on HUKD, the MSI Z170A GAMING PRO I wouldn't even consider buying that for anothers build let alone mine after reading the review in CustomPC labs test.

The MSI X99 SLI Plus deal is heat worthy on price, if I took cheapest now for same items = £248.22 (Mobo from Kiratek & same RAM from Ebuyer).

Yeah, I saw that review of the Ranger VIII in the December issue of Custom PC and the Hero review in Novembers. The only thing that's putting me off the Ranger is the reviews on Newegg, it appears a lot of people on there and a few on the Rog forum were experiencing memory issues, especially when using XMP profiles, perhaps user error? The Hero seems the more popular board of choice, I'm not sure what to do.

Thought this looked good until I checked out the boards and prices but even a board priced over a 160 quid you dont even get DDR4!
Not really worth it!

Voted COLD

And of course I bought my VIII Ranger a couple of weeks back... :neutral_face:

No, your not missing them, it's only the £300 ones.


+1 .

Damn, wouldn't have minded £35 off a 2011v3 mobo, but it seems only the really high end £300 ones are in there.

Unless I'm missing it somewhere?

Cool promotion anyway, bring the Asus boards nearer Gigabyte pricing, and I honestly just love Asus Mobos.

Cool! Thanks, I've just bought a MAXIMUS VIII RANGER from Amazon so £20 cash back will come in handy towards all the other components I had to buy.

Voted Hot+

Z97-A? No cashback?

My choice Maximus VIII Ranger, CustomPC recently did a 1151 mobo roundup, it did highest CPU frequency (which some mobos did match) but with lowest vcore for same test chip. Picked up gold award, other mobos which were more expensive than it couldn't match the OC plus good layout/ features IMO. They have not published that review on Bit Tech.

In another thread I posted my experience with the Maximus VII Ranger & 2x i5 4690K, at one point when I had my original i5 4690K I wanted the Hero as better VRM than Ranger but apparent to me after my 2nd i5 that the Ranger was not an issue to gain good OC. Again the VII Ranger had also got gold award in CPC labs test for LGA1150 mobos.

Email got bounced as undeliverable, called telephone support and was told Amazon.co.uk is included, purchase must be not a warehouse deal but brand new and paid in £.

When told telephone support person email was undeliverable, he emailed me so I'd reply and is sending list.

cool :smiley:

I'm waiting on a reply from support team regarding who are authorised ASUS resellers and distributors.

Emailed:- [email protected]

I only found out about ASUS cashback promo when browsing Amazon.fr, so would assume that Amazon.co.uk would be ok but I'd confirm before making purchase.

Does anyone know if Amazon is included?

I got the same but was only £16 anyway

Dang it, have the A88XM-A from Black Friday. £15 would have paid for it haha.