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Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake Processors Will Be Hard To Get - Availability Dramatic
Intel yesterday released their Coffee Lake generation processors. The Z370 motherboards are available alright, the processors however now. We did some rounds here in the Netherlands and availability is dramatic. Intel supplied a dozen or two of the high-end specced processors to distributors, and that's it.
Meanwhile checking some price engines, the stock availability in Europe has run dry. In the USA the 8700k is also out of stock, I did notice the 8600k on Newegg though.
In the UK some shops are hugely milking the procs they can actually sell. One of the bigger etailer for example decided to test and bin the procs they had, and have pre-binned 5Ghz versions for £500, 5.1Ghz for £600 or 5.2Ghz for £800 in-stock.
A normal 8700k should cost £360, but, that one of course is not available and on pre-order only. Considering most if not all stock 8700K procs will already do 5.1 GHz that's really taking an advantage of your customers - guys, £800 is like 899 euros / 1050 USD (!).
As to why the availability is this low, nobody really knows and certainly not something we have seen or is expected often from Intel. Production is the same 14nm fab node one as Kaby Lake uses. Intel certainly will not shed any light on this. We have however heard rumors that there is lots of Kaby lake stock (processors and chipsets) left, perhaps they will be waiting to clear that stock fist before making Coffee Lake available in good volume, that however remains speculation of course.
It once again feels like rushed launch, a paper launch mostly with incredibly low stock available.
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Canadian etailer publishes Intel 8th Gen Desktop CPU prices - 08/20/2017 03:56 PM
If all pre-announcements and rumors have been right, tomorrow Intel will announce their 8th gen Core desktop processors. In Canada at an etailer called PC Canada, the prices have leaked....
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As for Intels strategy, its about screw everyone over, new Mobo, New Ram, New Chipset...
Unless you are fortunate to have lots of money (to which the majority of us don't) then good luck to the people who buy this.
Honest to God, the way people like you whine about Intel I almost am convinced that they are forcing people to buy their products at gun point..."waaaa Intel screwing EVERY ONE OVER".. dude, chill the f out and boycott yheir product if you have such a chip on your shoulder.
AMD has always been for the people when it comes to upgrades. They are Honest and tell you what will work.
If it wasn't for AMD - we would all be running Intel Pentium 5's and not had dual core technology for the masses yet.
I can't even.
AMD is a business. It's not your friend.. it doesn't have your best interests at heart. they like Intel, like Nvidia, want your $$. Full stop.
Trying to paint some hippy dippy picture about how they are honest unlike the evil Intel makes you sound ridiculous honestly. Pull yourself away from your delusions please.