Friday, November 16th 2018

Retail Prices of Key Intel Core i5 and 8th Gen Core i7 Processor SKUs Sober Up

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btarunr
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Prices of retail versions of several 8th and 9th generation Intel Core processor SKUs dropped down to MSRP-levels Friday, in the US. Newegg currently lists the Core i5-9600K at USD $249.99, and the Core i7-8700K at $369.99, while the i7-8700 goes for $319.99, matched with AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X. The Core i5-8600K is listed at $239.99, which is just $20 above the consumer-favorite i5-8400. Newegg's pricing is still riddled with mark-up anomalies for SKUs in high demand. The Core i7-9700K is listed at $487.99, which is about $10 cheaper than Intel's MSRP for the Core i9-9900K, which is selling for an obnoxious $850.

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20 Comments on Retail Prices of Key Intel Core i5 and 8th Gen Core i7 Processor SKUs Sober Up

#1
HisDivineOrder
Now don't get crazy. I'm sure those are just Black Friday week "sales."
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#2
Xzibit
Yeah, Kind of hard to miss the big

BLACK FRIDAY DEALS TODAY banner on Neweggs main page which leads to SOME of those prices
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#3
Upgrayedd
Microcenter has 9600K for $240, the 9700K for $400 and the 9900K for $580.

8600K is $220, the 8700K is $330 and the 8086K is $400.

Pretty sure these are normal prices and not BF prices for Microcenter
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#4
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
XzibitYeah, Kind of hard to miss the big...
AMD prices are kinda flat, though.
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#5
GreiverBlade
in unicorn land? ... because Intel pricing announced are rarer than a unicorn where i live ... aka: you add 100$~ to the price mentioned here .... and boom you have my pricing
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#6
Xzibit
UpgrayeddMicrocenter has 9600K for $240, the 9700K for $400 and the 9900K for $580.

8600K is $220, the 8700K is $330 and the 8086K is $400.

Pretty sure these are normal prices and not BF prices for Microcenter
MC usually has lower prices but they do sneaky stuff too. Like raise the prices of their SALE and up the MSRP/regular price to show biggers savings at an elevated price. Even tho its usually same or lower then others.
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#7
GoldenX
The 9 series hasn't even arrived in Argentina yet, aside from some "stores" selling the 9900k for the same price as the highest Threadrippers.
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#8
TheOne
I kind of regret not grabbing an 8700K for $300 back in Feb/March from Walmart.
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#9
Cybrnook2002
XzibitMC usually has lower prices but they do sneaky stuff too. Like raise the prices of their SALE and up the MSRP/regular price to show biggers savings at an elevated price. Even tho its usually same or lower then others.
Just did a build for a friend and picked up the 2700X from MC for $269.99. Coupled it with the $30 off combo deal for the MB, was a pretty solid deal for us :-)
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#10
T4C Fantasy
CPU & GPU DB Maintainer
I got my 9900k for 529.99 on amazon

My 6700k i upgrades from max oc on water was 4.6ghz, my 9900k os 5ghz on all 8 cores 24/7 since i installed it and it allows me to oc my ram xD. My 6700k was horrible.. So happy with the 9900k jubilant
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#11
ironwolf
That $850 price on Newegg for the 9900K is from a 3rd party vendor. The actual sold by/from Newegg price is listed as $569.99 but shows OOS.
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#12
Bwaze
There is no sobering up in Europe, cheapest 9900K in EU is 625€ (715$), 9700K is 480€ (550$).
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#13
kastriot
Smart people will wait for Zen 2.
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#14
Vayra86
January is the time to buy parts. Not rush hour, which is now.
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#15
TheDeeGee
kastriotSmart people will wait for Zen 2.
Yep, that's what i'm gonna do.

I want to upgrade, but people told me to wait for Zen2. In the end i thought to myself: "Why would i pay a big fat premium for an Intel CPU that doesn't even have Hyperthreading?"

So back to AMD, which i last used in 2008 before going Intel.
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#16
plonk420
i got a 1700X for $150... will do some nice distributed computing, and, when i get more ram, some x264/x265 encoding nicely :D
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#18
coonbro
smart move intel took away xeon support so you cant get I-7 hyperthreading at I-5 price on these later ''gaming '' boards . remember like a z 87 the long list of cpu's supported I-7 - I-5 and xeno .. good ol' days and a choice not stranded to I-5m or I-7 only and top it off with win-10 only too boot .. [ today you build as they want not as you need and your personal computer is now there public one ]
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#19
Vario
This Intel generation isn't particularly inspiring. The 8600K / 8700K are still worth buying over 9th gen.
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#20
B-Real
And still more expensive than Zen+ with their MSRP prices...
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