[H]OT 6700k 319.99 @ Micricenter

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In store only, but damn is that smoking hot.
Nope the website does not reflect the in store price.
 
I saw this in today's flier as well, I wouldn't quite call it Smoking Hot but if you were waiting for a price drop its certainly better than the $360 or whatever everyone has been charging from Day 1.

Intel was forcing some artificial shortage on these i7 6700K and 5775C CPUs, probably to help clear out 4790K from the market, but in the month or so since they've become widely available in the US prices have already dropped significantly, I expect they'll be $250-$280 again at MC by Black Friday/Cyber Week.
 
Combo discount is only 20 now. Couple years ago, it was around 40. They still offer the best prices on chips and returns are easy. Will hold on to my 2500K @ 4.5 and Z68 for another year. Don't think the performance bump will be tangible and would have to buy DDR4.
 
I remember seeing a used one in the for sale section.

$319 at MC after tax brings it to almost $350.
 
If only MC didn't charge me tax, I would care. But MC with tax for me is $349, and NE is $360 no tax.

So meh..
 
Darksword said:
You'd be better off just getting a 5820K for $299.99.
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The elephant in the room...

I mean in the old days with the 3770k, the 3820k was still a 4C/8T part and cost slightly more coinciding with the X79 platform. In this case the 6C/12T part is actually cheaper.
 
Darksword said:
You'd be better off just getting a 5820K for $299.99.
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+1

Then in 4-5 years, upgrade to a dirt cheap 12+core Xeon. It doesn't make much sense to go with socket 1151 over 2011v3.

Hell, I'm still on an x58 board and just upgraded to a Xeon x5670 for $90, then OC'd it to 4GHz. It benchmarks within 10%-20% of a lot of the high end stuff for sale right now. When I look at socket 1151, I see a neutered half ass attempt by Intel just to make extra money because they know AMD won't catch up anytime soon, if at all.
 
chizow said:
I saw this in today's flier as well, I wouldn't quite call it Smoking Hot but if you were waiting for a price drop its certainly better than the $360 or whatever everyone has been charging from Day 1.

Intel was forcing some artificial shortage on these i7 6700K and 5775C CPUs, probably to help clear out 4790K from the market, but in the month or so since they've become widely available in the US prices have already dropped significantly, I expect they'll be $250-$280 again at MC by Black Friday/Cyber Week.
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I forgot about sales tax, though after tax, it's still cheaper than everyone else...and it might be better still if they have good deals on MBs (I bought my stuff 2-3 weeks ago, so I didn't look).
 
I am trying to figure out why people think this CPU is better of the 5820K at Microcenter for $299

I've OC'd maybe 17 or 18 of these 5920K's including my personal system and I always get 4400 - 4500 rock stable, I've only got one to 4600 that was 100% stable under very heavy rendering.

the 4820K scores faster against the 6700k even when both are clocked at 4.5ghz. Admittedly some of the scores are neck and neck.

I think you can match these 2 cpu's up against one another on CPUBoss.com

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

Part of the score is based on price. This CPU is NOT nearly $500 as they are reporting. Plus the 5820k gives you quad channel memory performance.

/2cents
 
w1retap said:
+1

Then in 4-5 years, upgrade to a dirt cheap 12+core Xeon. It doesn't make much sense to go with socket 1151 over 2011v3.

Hell, I'm still on an x58 board and just upgraded to a Xeon x5670 for $90, then OC'd it to 4GHz. It benchmarks within 10%-20% of a lot of the high end stuff for sale right now. When I look at socket 1151, I see a neutered half ass attempt by Intel just to make extra money because they know AMD won't catch up anytime soon, if at all.
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Only problem is that those Xeons will not be overclockable. Overclocking Xeons died with x58.
 
Until the 6700K inventory is good, expect this to be the hottest deal anywhere.

5820K is a great alternative if you dont need the new MB features or the minute IPC/clocks
 
Killerxp100 said:
Only problem is that those Xeons will not be overclockable. Overclocking Xeons died with x58.
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The Xeon E5-2xxx have a locked multiplier, but can handle minor overclocking. It has been done if you look over at Overclock.net and HWbot.org. The E5-1xxx have an unlocked multiplier with people doing some extreme OC'ing.. They have some nice Cinebench videos to illustrate the performance gains. But with the E5-2xxx series, they would be a powerhouse upgrade for rending, encoding, etc.. not so much for single threaded applications.
 
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SixFootDuo said:
I am trying to figure out why people think this CPU is better of the 5820K at Microcenter for $299

I've OC'd maybe 17 or 18 of these 5920K's including my personal system and I always get 4400 - 4500 rock stable, I've only got one to 4600 that was 100% stable under very heavy rendering.

the 4820K scores faster against the 6700k even when both are clocked at 4.5ghz. Admittedly some of the scores are neck and neck.

I think you can match these 2 cpu's up against one another on CPUBoss.com

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

Part of the score is based on price. This CPU is NOT nearly $500 as they are reporting. Plus the 5820k gives you quad channel memory performance.

/2cents
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I'm trying to pick a new cpu and you've hit on part of my decision. Anyone willing to share their time, I made a thread asking for thoughts/data/opinions. I'd really appreciate it.

A couplereasons I might pick 6700k over 5820k, include:

- the extra $100 it costs to get a comparable mobo between z170 and x99
- ability to cool either cpu oc'd to ~4 - 4.2GHz.

Still trying to come to a decision.
 
I walked out of there Friday evening with a 6600K, didn't have time to build my system on Saturday. Sunday morning I woke up and said F it and returned the 6600K and bought the 6700K. It's the first i7 I've ever owned and for gaming, probably not worth the extra $100 but for astrophotography image processing, a few of the apps I use for image integration will benefit from the extra threads. And I don't want to buy another CPU until 2020.
 
Eradan said:
I walked out of there Friday evening with a 6600K, didn't have time to build my system on Saturday. Sunday morning I woke up and said F it and returned the 6600K and bought the 6700K. It's the first i7 I've ever owned and for gaming, probably not worth the extra $100 but for astrophotography image processing, a few of the apps I use for image integration will benefit from the extra threads. And I don't want to buy another CPU until 2020.
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Why no 5820K instead, if you don't plan on upgrading until 2020?
 
Darksword said:
Why no 5820K instead, if you don't plan on upgrading until 2020?
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I am definitely a supporter of the 6600/6700k over the 5820k in most cases, but in this case, I absolutely agree with you. If someone is seriously planning on waiting five years to upgrade a CPU, those two extra cores will definitely come into significant use before then. Waiting until canonlake? 6600/6700k, hands down unless you have a very specific need for more cores. After that it gets increasingly risky to go quad-core now...

It is not even a question at five years: 5820k.
 
Because the X99 motherboards I was interested in were as much as 100% more expensive than a lot of the Z170 boards I could live with. And just because I don't want to upgrade to 2020 doesn't mean I won't. I Iived on m Q9550 until Ivy Bridge. Will have to see where things go as far as multi-thread support.
 
amazon just raised their price on the 6700K from $350 to $400 WTF
 
and now amazon dropped it to $370

strange way to raise the price $20 in one day

price is moving in wrong direction though

just give me 4790K for $250 for black friday, ha
 
Amazon has dynamic price algorithms based on sales volume. It is automatic.
 
Ditto newegg, and da egg's response times are shockingly fast. Not 100% sure about this part, but I think it was about ~6 years ago there was a lot of evidence pointing towards newegg's algorithms increasing product price not just based on sales, but even off of mere page views. The more interest there is in a product, the more likely there are to be buyers, and after some sort of minimum (and perhaps small number of sales), newegg's algorithm adjusts accordingly to maximize profit.
 
Intel Core BX80646I74790K i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) has decreased from $334.99 to $309.00

Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K has decreased from $235.00 to $224.99


both still off by at least $25, maybe $50 considering skylake

five weeks until black friday, not sure what is going to happen
 
Prices on 4790K and 5820K have actually gone up at Micro Center, probably to make the 6600K/6700K pricing look better lol.
 
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