It's hot if you don't have one! :stuck_out_tongue:

Xfaxfa has got the same mentality/attitude of the staff at ocuk

And Xfaxfa when you buy a item under the soga your contract is with the retailer and not the manufactuer but ocuk seem to think other

It didn't take me so long it took them 29 days for them to replace it as overclockers will NOT/DO not replace stock from there own inventory they send everything back to their supplier for replacement

This is my opinion is very poor

Hard to justify this at that price when the i5 6500 is well over a £100 cheaper this should be £250 Max.

don't know why it's cold, heat from me! good supplier, good product

Why so cold? Have some heat!

I have no idea why it's cold. I keep getting notifications that it has been voted hot. It's my first deal post.

It's hot if you already have a heatsink and cooler. Maybe that's why people are voting cold? Heat from me anyway.

why is so expensive compared to the 4790K?? same power but can someone briefly explain the advantages?? I know it takes dd4 etc.. and might only be no more that 5% better

Just as a note though, oem tray processors only come with 1yr warranty as opposed to retail boxed with come with 3yr. I guess it's because oem are for system builders who usually only give usual year warranty.

lol touche!

If this was a retail version it would be hot, oem not so much

300 on Amazon, may have to wait a little longer for it but it's what I would do

I'm looking at one myself just waiting for it to drop a little

We? Are you from OCUK? Are these tray processors abused on your test bench for stress testing and subjected to high voltages or are they brand new from Intel?

We = Builders
Please try not to take things out of context. This deal is aimed towards builders and entusiasts and typically we only offer 12 months anyway

Hard to justify this at that price when the i5 6500 is well over a £100 cheaper this should be £250 Max.

Think the language on the question is over the top. You'd have to assume some might be tested for people wanting overclocked builds, but first test would be trying the chips and seeing which runs standard with lowest setting, that gives good indication they will reach good clocks with lower voltage. No builder of any skill will want to abuse a component they are going to sell with warranty. It makes no sense. They want the best or specific clock for lowest voltage so the chip lasts a respectable time. Over volting would be counter productive and bad for reputation.

Assume chips might be tested and best over clocking ones binned for a companies own over clocked builds.

Also like to add that this CPU can easily be overclocked by 15% with minimum user input, much further by someone with the knowledge. Just have a good cooler.

4th gen picture 6th gen deal! Tut tut

Not to mention OcUK has a huge reputation in the computer industry. Do you think they need to hire people to plug them on a site like this? :laughing:

The fact you have just said that means you must know very little about the current CPUs on offer which can now all be over clocked safely with the base clock there is no point buying a k chip this time round if a non k one is available.

Imo ocuk's customer support and returns policy are awful 29 days to replace a Blu Ray drive is awful

And the staff Instore are terrible

Shows what you know as this chip can be down in smaller increments now whereas the others can not.

It didn't take me so long it took them 29 days for them to replace it as overclockers will NOT/DO not replace stock from there own inventory they send everything back to their supplier for replacement

This is my opinion is very poor

The non K cannot overclock as far and you loose some features, on some motherboards you loose hyperthreading so effectively making an i7 an i5

Maybe you should do some reading and find out the differences in overclocking.

I'm pretty sure about this too. They presume you'll be putting your own in anyway, especially as it's aimed at overclockers, not newbies! :laughing: No stock cooler will be any good with this. I have an AIO watercooler on mine.

Don't tell me, tell OcUK marketing team lol

IMO unless you're doing something that takes full advantage of the extra threads like video encoding then the i5 6600k is the better buy with current prices, especially if you're overclocking as is expected if buying a K chip. £75 cheaper currently, which is a big difference.

Buy from amazon and get instant faulty returns and new product next day no questions asked ..... that is the lesson learnt from buying from overclockers and scan etc.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intel-skylake-i7-6700k-quad-core-4-0ghz-processor-255-amazon-temporarily-out-stock-2267357

Was £255 once over

For this price, I would put £10 more towards a 5820K for 6 cores 12 threads.

It wasn't taken out of context - what you said was ambiguous and I read it the same way as enigmatik33. But thanks for clarifying - all fine now. :smiley:

Dropping 276 bones on a processor is crazy money.

Pair this with a corsair H80i/H100 watercooling rig and it's a dream setup.

Well then how about you get in your time machine and buy some? Since then the pound has tanked against the dollar and that's not helping component prices in the UK. This is the best price right now. The best price 5 months ago is irrelevant.

It amazes me how many trolls are online critical of just about everything. This is a brilliant price for this particular CPU at this moment in time. Well said regarding the time machine. Anyone know of any offers on one? :laughing:

Actually, Your context is incorrect. The people that offer the warranty aren't the builders.

If a customer asks for a build from me then their contract is with me and I offer them 12 months on the entire system.

Under EU law, the minimum you should offer is 2 years. No?

2 year guarantee on EU sold products isn't as black and white as you may think. There is a difference between a warranty and a guarantee. Besides, this post is only here to point people (that are interested in this particular item) in the right direction for a good, limited time offer.

Thanks for the clarification. Hope you achieve your target.

Target? I don't know what you're trying to imply. I am not employed by or affiliated to OcUK in any way other than occasionally being a customer of theirs. Simply pointing people in the direction of a good offer.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.overclockers.co.uk Many would disagree with you

Yeah, I can use google, thanks OCUK employee. So why did OCUK force me to appeal to Phanteks for a replacement when my case arrived damaged? Why did they tell me to contact XFX a few years ago when my PSU was DOA?

Did I join this forum 8 years ago and post 5000 comments just to appear legit when I finally chose my time to falsely besmirch the good name of your company on a mediocre deal for an i7 CPU that most people don't need?

Great deal if you want to get a 1 year warranty, even tho technically covered by 2 years EU law (also always buy on credit card for section 75 protection for goods above £100).

I'd rather keep the box and a guaranteed 3 years warranty for £299 on amazon.

For this reason i vote cold.

Good for you. 1,565 reviews at 94% positive.... pretty trustworthy to me.

If you did experience something wrong then you should have stood up for your rights. A shop is only obliged to replace an item under 28 days old, afgter 28 days it can send the item off and make you wait. If you settle for a bogus claim then fault can only be with the consumer for being so submissive.

What are you trying to achieve by making rediculous claims that I'm an employee of OcUK and do you really think they need to be plugged on HotUKDeals? :laughing: lol

Who said need? People want things like this!

nice but for know i will stay with 4790k for 4 years no point to change it

just so peeps know, even the retail version doesn't come with a cooler. luckily id bought an ectra cooler anyhows otherwise id have been caught out

Xfaxfa has got the same mentality/attitude of the staff at ocuk

And Xfaxfa when you buy a item under the soga your contract is with the retailer and not the manufactuer but ocuk seem to think other

I have a 4790K overclocked to 4.8ghz @ 1.275 volts and I'm doing just fine... don't need to upgrade any time soon! :smiley:

decent price

Damn, Good price. I paid £10 less on Amazon for my i7 4790k just last month.

Wouldn't be needed from an i7-4790K. Tick-Tock and all!

That was not my recent experience. I bought a PC Case/PSU combo and the PSU was noisy. I had stupidly thrown the packaging away, and was surprised when I was told that ill not be an issue. I received an email to return FOC and was supplied a better PSU for no extra cost. From phone call to replacement was 4 days. Excellent service for me.

I think some people just like to be contrary. I was refunded on hardware that wasn't even faulty, it was the software being used that was in early development causing my problem. Whole process was effortless.

Xfaxfa you seem to have a vested interest is trashing people's views that have had bad experiences with ocuk or are knocking the item why is that ??

Oh and I take it as long as you and wubb have had good service that ocuk are good ??

And what for the ones on trust pilot who have had bad experiences

That could well be the case but once you've been messed about by a company would you use them again ??

Seems to me that xfaxfa is trying to sell this product. Not buying it pal... FREEZING COLD!

Lol this is not a hot deal, wish people would actually look at what the item is properly

A hot deal is subjective. Best price available doesn't mean it's hot, for me anyway.

What would suitable components for i7-6700k cost?
I'm not interested in graphics as I'm an audio guy.
£600? £1000? More?

How is £275.99 vs £304.00 not a good deal?

Not specific to this deal. Just in general.

for gamers like me it's probably better to go with i5 and spend the money on a better GPU.. but it's a good price for people who want i7's horsepower.. voted hot.

The cheapest boxed version is £292.50. The extra £20 is worth the additional two year warranty from Intel.

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-40-GHz-Skylake-Socket-1151-boxed_54051.html

Threads like this tickle me. It's like people want to put off first time posters.

Product is available here cheaper than it is from other providers. The value of the product versus alternative products is a subjective debate.

People accusing the guy of working for the seller is hilarious, he made one comment that people picked up on using the word 'we' and all of a sudden oh he's staff.

And negative feedback from the seller is good information to provide to people, but it's worth considering that when dealing with high volumes of customers, some are going to be left unhappy, and with vendors selling at cut throat prices, it's pretty typical that customer service can take a hit from it. I wouldn't for example order all components for a full computer build from ebuyer, but the odd bargain that crops up there I'd take a chance on.

All I'd say to the original poster is the deal still went hot, you saw a bunch of posts by people you can now stick on the ignore list, and with a lot of things on this site it brings the 'experts' out of the woodwork making sure everyone knows how much they know by hating on high end gear because OMG such and such a thing is way better who would buy this!

LGA 1151 (95W)
Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0 4.2 8MB 4/8 $316
Intel Core i5-6600K 3.0 3.9 6MB 4/4 $225

This is intel's current price list for these. Even with the devalued pound this is a tough conversion price wise. That being said it's hard to get the i5 6600k below £200.I can't see anyone on a i7 Haswell upgrading to this for 5% performance. On plus side £275 is much cheaper than £350. I don't see Kabylake offering more than 3-5% performance boost on this. I guess if you want this product £275.00 seems a good price compared to market prices. Guessing Intel is still struggling to make these.

Even at £275.99 i7-6700K is still a bad value. For essentially the same price, you can get i7-5820K, which is a proper six-core CPU with a much superior X99 platform.

A valid point :smiley:

Lets hope that changes this year.

Only a undoubtedly insane or just utter stupid person would pair this with a board other than a Z170...

This chip is K'd for a reason, easy overclocking, gaming and getting more bang for your buck.

e.g




5820k doesn't overclock better, it just has more cores... No game utilises that. Per core 6700k is stronger.

When was the last time someone had a cpu fail? In 20 years I've never seen one fail unless it arrived doa. Don't waste extra money on 3 year warranty when u will never need it.

I agree about the warranty situation. CPU's rarely fail.

Amazing that there's only an approx 25% improvement over the i7-2700K from years ago. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2565&cmp[]=881

last CPU i had die on me was an AMD Duron 1300 Mhz - and even that was only because i had mounted the cooler the wrong way round.

CPUs are the most reliable part of a computer

Great deal, I got one of these for £285 in November. Very happy with it. Just running it at stock speed at the moment with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo, will upgrade my Evo to a Noctua DH-15 when I start overclocking it in the not too distant future.

Having just upgraded from a 4770k @ 4.6GHz to a 5820k @ 4.6GHz, I can tell you there are, in fact, quite a few games that benefit from the additional cores.

It might take bites out of them, but does it really benefit overall gaming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq42waz0OpY

This shows otherwise but as you said, I guess it depends on the game as well.

Really good deal .just ordered one . thanks for sharing

In an effort to MAYBE encourage some better prices (less folks upgrading) take a look here or here. The basic point being, the TINY performance difference between generations.

Unless there's a specific chipset feature you need from a later generation, you might as well save some cash and buy an older generation. It may produce a few more sale prices for those that are jumping a good few generations (as 1st generation core to 6th is probably a reasonable upgrade now).

I'm still trucking with a 2600k and no real incentive to move on so upgrade money has been better spent on a bigger graphics card, memory and SSDs :smiley:

Unless you're in need of the extra PCIe lanes for a tri-sli setup (or dual and a PCIe SSD), you'll get no better performance from an X99 platform.

The only real differences between X99+5820k and Z170+6700K are more PCIe lanes on the X99 board and more cores on the 5820k chip. The 5820k doesn't overclock nearly as well as skylake either so "per core" performance is often significantly worse. For gaming, faster cores is MUCH better than more cores. Unless you need the PCIe lanes or are doing "serious work" that will make good use of more cores you're better off with skylake.

I'm not after raining on anyones parade, we all buy shiny new toys with good reasons/intentions but perhaps something for those considering X99 to think about. It's a fair bit more expensive and for gaming... doesn't really seem worthwhile.

It will be interesting to see what prices start at with Broadwell-E and the performance OF AMD zen when they are released late this year. Until then this is the king of Consumer CPUs and at not too bad a price (I suspect it won't go down much further than this till EOL).

Actually it does... I bought one around October time. £99+vat ... bet you think I'm telling porkies now. But I'm not. Novatech had an Intel gaming day, and it was on special at the time.

Edit: Sorry, not sure I read that right. I'm referring to the i7 6700 non-K version. It came with heatsink and fan.

You picked up an i7-6700 for £99? And yes, you're not reading that comment right, we were talking specificially about the i7-6700K

Correct, and correct.. yes, £99+vat it cost me i7 6700 Skylake 1151 CPU, with heatsink and fan retail boxed, brand new and sealed, and yes, I didn't read it right as stated :sunglasses:
For what it's worth, the gain on the K version in the end didn't bother me too much,

It's a good price in comparison to what it has been but in general the prices of Intel CPU's seems to increase significantly with each new generation due to the lack of competition. Hoping that AMD will drop something decent later this year (Zen) to force a bit of a price drop on these

Which games? :man:

Not even BF4 uses all cores. It can see the cores but the foundations being Direct X 11, it is unable to utilise 2-3 cores efficiently and does not scale well, I remember there being a patch allowing you to use 8 cores but the game was lag land..

If a game was patched in a way to do this it will work all cores but the game will be laggy as hell, there's a reason why there is such a massive hubbub around DX12/Mantle as this technology allows us to do this on a fundamental level.

Right now having more cores will only assist you in two places, Video Transcoding, BOINC or in Windows itself.

More than anything right now is more important is per core oomph until DX12 comes and if it can utilise all these cores efficiently.

P.S This is why Mantle was introduced as AMD was getting mullered on the fact all its per core performance was utter balls.

P.S.S Your 5820k gets it's ass handed per core compared to a 6700k :smiley:

Yeah, pretty much. Actually had no idea what I was buying at the time. But sent details to mate after. Within an hour he was down there and bought 2 ... told me to get another. I should have listened!

Exactly, the only game I can think of that might benefit from the 5820k at the moment would be something like Ashes of the Singularity in DX 12 mode.

Note this has
- 1yr Warranty
as its OEM

Don't use Prime95 with Skylake chips unless the BIOS of that board is uptodate after January time.

Prime95 sometimes gives a false report of instability by returning the wrong result.

Microcode update was pushed out after Jan and now-ish as well for some manufacturers.

Not tried that, looks good.

If you like the old Command and Conquer games then you might like it. I enjoy a bit of a game on it but really even with the DX 12 boost my P is not really up to playing it.

What card do you have?

No command and conquer supports DX12.

Nope but the game I was talking about Ashes of the singularity does.

I have a Core2Quad q9550 backed by an AMD 7950 w 8 Feb ram. CPU is my limiting factor.

Sorry. I should have read the entire post :smiley:

Lol no problem!

I did think you are telling porkies, but you sneakily said "+vat" which means you actually paid 119.99

http://titan-power.eu/i7-6700-intel-119-99-novatech-instore-only/

So yeah, I believe you. Good take!

But if I had to buy right now, the 6700 non k is around 250 on deal, and the 6700k is around 275 on deal. So I'm already in for the gander, I might as well get my goose too.

I'd actually be surprised if Ashes got any boost on the 5820k.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/DX12-GPU-and-CPU-Performance-Tested-Ashes-Singularity-Benchmark/Results-Avera?page=1

A quick check seems to confirm my suspicion. And that's comparing the 5960x, which is WAY stronger than the 5820k (and far more expensive).

You should have listened to your friend! Good steal!

It's because per core the 6700k excels.

I agree with you both.

If we focus on the top 2 CPU's, look at the low settings, which puts more strain on the CPU (overhead), with DX11, the 6700K excels because of the increased core performance.
Now with DX12. The cores are being utilized, but the game is now GPU bound, so the scores are similar.



Using AMD as an example (poor DX11 MT), with DX12, up until a point, adding more cores helps. I doubt were going to need more than 20,000,000 drawcalls per second in games for a long time to come. We need more powerful GPU's.



And here's NVIDIA's API overhead test for reference.



If anyone reading this is interested in why we talk about CPU overhead a lot in CPU and GPU deals. Check out the DX11 drawcall performance, 290X vs 980 here. NVIDIA utiltizes multi-threaded, and even their single-thread performance is higher than both AMD's multi-threaded and single-threaded.

its also been roughly this price for ages.

so will this speed up my loading times for Ms word, the current 4 sec I have to wait feel like an eternity :smile:

so will this speed up my loading times for Ms word, the current 4 sec I have to wait feel like an eternity :smile:

Really? It was a one day deal, which has now expired.

Was it a one off deal or will it be back?

I'm sure they'll offer it again soon on a deal. Few months ago these processors were incredibly hard to get a hold of, now not so much. If you're interested in one of these then I'd try looking out for a bundle deal, there was one online yesterday but when I checked the bundle offer was no more. Without checking around for individual prices, this looks ok...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pack-approved-elite-tier-skylake-atx-bundle-intel-i7-6700k-4.50ghz-z170-viii-hero-16gb-ddr4-bu-044-as.html (no doubt this will spark another debate if it gets seen by people! lol)

This deal has now expired. Why is it still showing?

its price is 289.99 now - sorry it was this price for ages until this flash sale

back at offer price now