Was looking up bundle prices and noticed AWD-IT have some nicely priced i5 and i7 ones... not bad considering they are pre-assembled. The mobo and CPU on their own come to £450.47 from Scan for example... £440.71 on Amazon... that's not including the cooler.
NOTE: For it to be overclocked it needs to be purchased with memory.
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mamboboy to thelagmonster
4 Sep 167#4
got any links?
Spod
5 Sep 164#50
Blimey - that text is densely packed and hard to read. Have you never heard of paragraphs? :confused:
Romasato
6 Sep 163#95
After lots of hesitation and trying to justify the upgrade - went for it and yesterday ordered the last one priced at £419. Today the price has gone up to £443.99 - which is still a good deal IMHO as it comes with the CPU cooler (~£30)
Will be quite a difference as I am upgrading from Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (released in 2008) and based on cpubenchmark it is about 5 times slower compared to 6700k :smiley:
barns
5 Sep 163#44
Me too, I have a great 2600k system that runs perfectly. A few years ago computing power was doubling super fast, but it seems to have slowed down a bit lately. I haven't met anything yet the 2600k can't do fast and well. It helps that I have 12Gb of overclocked memory. And I usually run the CPU stock but have overclocked to 4.8Ghz with water cooling. Maybe I'll upgrade in another 2 years!
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Shaftydude
4 Sep 16#1
Have to buy ram to get the or on the cup.
Shaftydude
4 Sep 16#2
Have to buy ram to get the or on the cup.
thelagmonster
4 Sep 16#3
At this price I'd want a hexacore...
mamboboy to thelagmonster
4 Sep 167#4
got any links?
longback2
4 Sep 16#5
I got an overclocked bundle off scan, was about £20 more than buying separately from PC partpicker, was very pleased as I went for the i7 6800k. between the assembly and overclocking/stress testing, was well worth the £20
PR1 to longback2
4 Sep 16#7
Got a link, decent mobo...?
fishmaster to longback2
4 Sep 16#22
It should be pointed out that the i7-6800K is Broadwell-E which uses Socket 2011 and not Socket 1150 which the i7-6700K uses. The typical price for an i7-6800K is £399 so almost as much as this bundle just for the CPU. You do NOT need an i7-6800K for gaming. Lastly the 6800K is Hex core and the 6700K is quad core.
I'd advise anyone to pair this bundle with an M.2 NVMe (Not AHCI!) SSD such as the Samsung SM951 or Samsung 950 Pro.
longback2
4 Sep 16#6
sorry, didn't see this was overclocked too, great deal if awd-it are reputable
oUkTuRkEyIII
4 Sep 163#8
OVERCLOCKED to a Huge 4.5Ghz (only when purchased with memory from the drop down box)
moneybag
4 Sep 16#9
Soooooo tempted!!!
thelagmonster
4 Sep 161#10
I didn't say you COULD get one for this price, only that I'd want one. The 5820k has been around the £300 mark a few times, and the mobo is about £130 worth, so not that hard to do.
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NOTE: For it to be overclocked it needs to be purchased with memory.
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Will be quite a difference as I am upgrading from Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (released in 2008) and based on cpubenchmark it is about 5 times slower compared to 6700k :smiley:
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It should be pointed out that the i7-6800K is Broadwell-E which uses Socket 2011 and not Socket 1150 which the i7-6700K uses. The typical price for an i7-6800K is £399 so almost as much as this bundle just for the CPU. You do NOT need an i7-6800K for gaming. Lastly the 6800K is Hex core and the 6700K is quad core.
I'd advise anyone to pair this bundle with an M.2 NVMe (Not AHCI!) SSD such as the Samsung SM951 or Samsung 950 Pro.