Why didnt you just ask for your original post to be unexpired?

If you need a motherboard too then it might be better to get a bundle deal from Dabs, which includes the Retail version of the CPU (3 year warranty instead of 12 months with OEM).

I'm considering the ASUS Z170-A which is £405.22 including this CPU. The mobo is £121.74 alone, so works out to £283.48 for the CPU.

There's also the MSI deal for £456.29 (£436.29 after MSI £20 cashback) if you're after a different board.

EDIT: Obv. voted hot because it's the cheapest price for the OEM CPU alone.

Built last week:
Intel Core i7-6700K
Scythe Kotetsu 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3400 Memory

Yes a friend of mine did a X99 i7-5820K build with an M.2 NVMe Samsung SM951 boots in about 4 seconds. It's excellent.

Voted cold because xfaxfa is so defensive of his/her deals.

Better to spend the Extra £20 and get a retail version for the extra 2 years warranty.

​The 950 Pro is even faster.... There isn't any loading screens anywhere LOL

Samsung 950 pro?

Apparently the new Bond movie is called Skylake.

Nice one. CPU for £276? CPU and mobo for £405? No, sod it just get this beast for £760 because I can't be bothered comparing the price.

Not strictly relevant but I was looking at building a desktop recently and thought "hold on a minute, 280 for a CPU (okay 275 now) plus 120 for a motherboard? That's a bit expensive" and thought outside the box.

Ended up looking at used workstation motherboards and CPUs, picked up a pair of xeon e5-2670s for 280 pounds (so that's 16 x 2.6GHz sandybridge cores plus hyperthreading and turbo up to 3.3GHz). 64GB of RAM is 120 pounds. Dual socket motherboard from a dell T7600 is 150 pounds.

It's definitely not for everyone since it lacks sli/crossfire, and video games will generally only use the first four cores, but in my opinion it's way better bang for buck than skylake.

You're good at answering your own questions and judging things. I agree your joke wasn't funny.

Well at least I didn't intend my 'joke' to be funny :smiley: Aww I feel like I kicked a puppy, sorry hehe.

You are a mind reader too. Wasn't intended as a joke... or was it?

I've no idea, are you Paul Daniels? If you are magic me up one of these bundles :smiley:

No hard feelings dude, I was just being light hearted, if I upset you I'm sorry.

I got my 5820k for less than that! Skylake sadly isn't as great as what it was hyped up to be

Yeah workstation RAM can but not always be cheap. I've got a HP XW6600 and it has 32GB RAM as the RAM was dirt cheap for it. However having that much RAM is only if you NEED it! I'd rather trade RAM for the I/O of modern chipsets such as M.2 Gen 3 and USB 3.1.

I expect to sell the XW6600 this year and use the money for a Skylake build which will only have 16GB RAM.

Compare it to DDR4 prices and it's not bad, 37 pounds for an 8GB DDR4 2400MHz stick, I paid 17 pounds per stick, 8 sticks.

Anyway, M.2, USB 3.1, they're all doable with add-in cards if you have the PCIE lanes which you do when your CPUs have 40 lanes of PCIE 3.0 each instead of 16 with skylake.

Got any links for those parts? I just had a quick look on eBay, no T7600 mobo unless you import from USA. I work in IT refurbishing but usually get the complete workstations.

Waste of money unless you're running Prime95 all day.

Ah yeah I know MCSCOM. Might bulk buy a few bits from them, see if I can get a discount.

CPUs definitely do die, or die in a semi working state as in doing weird stuff. You pays your money you takes your chance.

They have sold two this year but no stock right now; eBay alerts are great for such things. :smiley:

I had one replaced on a laptop once.

I'm work in IT refurbishing so we get all manner of workstations and stuff come in, but I don't know any of the suppliers as the warehouse which is a separate but related company supplies the shop I work in. I get ex corp HP XW workstations, Dell Workstations etc some decent stuff but never a motherboard separately I guess as everything is bought as a job lot on a pallet.

Been waiting on a 6700k deal. Spent the last hour on flubit adding multiple cards (All declined)

6700k £278.02
Asus Z170i Pro gaming mini itx £109.19

I thought £278.02 was a pretty good price, just a pity they won't take my money. Was gonna jump at this but glad I read the comments about the warranty. I'm one of those unlucky sods that will make it fail 2 days out of warranty.

How long is a piece of string, but are we likely to see any good deals on the retail version any time soon?

£21.06 difference to flubit :smiley: Anyone any experience with Dabs, what's their support like? Or flubit for that matter. I dropped them a message, but I'm sure the offers will have expired by the time they get back to me. Then delivery wise, I've no idea. Dabs is certainly looking like a contender.

Don't know if I should just go for it now or wait until Amazon get stock next week. I take it that it's unlikely for Amazon to do a price drop next week. I know that's not easy to predict.

12% quidco on Dabs? :smiley:

only 4% quidco for components

Worked in a datacentre actually so know how cheap the CPUs we bought for older systems were. Jeez though he's gone back in time there, those chips he's using are the same architecture as second gen core 2 quads right? They might be cheap as chips (teehee) but there's no need to go that far back. Pcie 3.0 kicked in with the sandy bridge era chips and they're still pretty cheap. Check eBay for 'xeon e5' and ignore the v2 or v3 stuff unless it's super cheap.

Isn't amazo cheaper?

I'm waiting for Amazon, but then I'm still waiting on my ram

Skynet! :laughing:

Not worth the risk of import charges

Nice! Thanks for the find man. Just bought it and now I got to wait for my next pay check so I can get the motherboard for it... :laughing:

Yup

£270 for the retail version this morning with flubit, not sure if possible to get now. There's 2 retail 6700k's listed on Amazon, have to try to flubit with both.

Cold. Get a 5820k for less. 6 cores > 4 cores.

Maybe, this was the link i put through flubit for the £270 price http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-I7-6700K-Processor-Cache-LGA1151/dp/B012M8LXQW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454715211&sr=8-2&keywords=6700k

There's also another page with it listed at £298 but flubit only puts it down to £285, not sure why some products that are exactly the same have 2 different pages & links.

Hi folks,
What advantages would this processor give me against an intel i7 950 with 16 GB Ram?
I mainly do encoding, but like a PC that don't freeze on me.
Very serious on upgrading, just making sure I am on the right path.
Cheers

I'm a bit confused about this 6700K vs 5820K comparison. Seems to be a lot of conflicting information.

* Pretty sure both can be overclocked to 4.5GHz/4.6GHz so while the 6700K may be faster for games at stock, they both OC to much the same frequency - certainly to within margin of error. And who buys a K chip if not to overclock it.

* A lot of people dismiss the 6700K for not being that much faster than 4790K, but the 5820K is based on the same Haswell architecture as the 4790K and it's got a theoretical +50% in processing power plus quad-channel memory bandwidth plus access to faster DDR4 vs DDR3 on the quad.

* The idea that games don't use more than four threads is a myth - virtually every major modern game does because the engines are based on multi-core tech designed for PS4 and Xbox One. The Division beta even used 12 threads - my mate has a 3930K who observed this.

So here's what I don't get. I can understand that the 6700K at stock speeds could possibly beat the 5820K. But if both are overclocked to the same frequency and both are running the latest games, I don't see how the 5820K *can't* win - unless you accept that Skylake is a huge upgrade over Haswell.

The 6700k has a bit better IPC, other than that x99 is better overall yes. I chatted to a guy over email who is involved at Digital Foundry, he is planning to test the 5820k. But basically what he said was that the 6700k's advantage vs the 4790k in their results was a mix of the bandwidth that DDR4 brings as well as IPC, so if you look at DF's results for gaming you can't use the 4790k to take the place of a 5820k to judge performance.

He seems to think the 5820k will be better once overclocked, and he also mentioned the division using 12 threads, which i never knew about either. I myself went with the 5820k back in last March.

Thank you guys

@ dabooj
£295 from eBuyer and £23, £140 and £165 respectively, all from Amazon for ease.
Try PCPartpicker.
Not cheap, but it'll probably be my last re-build, other than maybe eventually doubling the RAM. N no, I'm not a gamer, I just like a fast PC!

amazing processor. overclocked to 4.9 GHz easy.