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Intel Core i7 4790 $250USD ($290AUD) Delivered from Amazon

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Saw this bargain in Amazon pre Black Friday deals and it has free shipping to Aus when I tried to check out.

$250USD is about $290 AUD delivered. Cheapest I can see in Aus is $323

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  • great deal - I use this CPU myself - great unit

  • What's CPU installation like to perform? Same level of difficulty has other components (HDD, GFX card)? Or is it a bit more fiddly?

    • +3

      Harder than HDD and GFX card, it also depends on what CPU cooler you have as some of them can be finicky.

      • So this doesn't come with the fan on top, it's just the processor itself?

        • Cooler in the box but you install it seperately.

      • +3

        It's a little harder than installing a hhd because you need to remove some screws and the fan. but after 10mins on youtube, you wont have any problems upgrading your cpu

    • +2

      Little harder but certainly doable if you watch a few youtube vids of it first.

      The stock Intel coolers are total crap but easy to install / replace, should come with (bad) thermal grease already.

    • +4

      Take care when removing, and installing the new CPU so as not to bend any of the pins beneath.

      Pickup and place back down evenly on the socket.

      On Intel CPU's there are two notches to help with orientation.

      No issues with warranty either when buying from Amazon, as Intel will handle warranty directly (paying for FedEx pickup and delivery of old/new CPU.

    • +4

      Thought you should also know that CPU must be compatible with the motherboard socket, in case your planning to upgrade a older CPU

      • +1

        This is the most important answer to the question.

    • +1

      Riskiest part of a PC build but it's not that hard. The dangers are bending motherboard pins, applying thermal paste incorrectly or not at all and making sure the cooler is secure. It's not that hard really as long as you know what to do.

  • damn. paid $395 for the 4790k about a fortnight ago…

    • +5

      4790k is better, this is just the 4790

      • +2

        Depends on your use. If you need VTd, then the 4790 is preferred. The 'K' is good for overclocking. The non-k is a great price at $100 cheaper than the 'K'.

        • +3

          well, non-k is 3.6ghz and K is 4.0ghz, and higher turbo too. K is better.

          It isn't just for overclocking in this case.

      • -2

        great when people read whats for sale before they comment

      • yeah I know, but I probably would have gone with this option and saved $100. I noticed there are all the GTX 970 gpu's back in stock as well. they have decent prices on all of them except the one I purchased here.

    • +2

      yeah but your K could probably be overclocked to 4.6ghz..
      and this is 3.6ghz.. so that $100 extra kinda makes sense

  • Been running a 2600K @ 4.6 ghz for donkeys, dunno if something like this would be worth the gain especially when I would need a new mobo.

    Any thoughts?

    • +4

      I'd wait another generation or two.

    • I remember the old days when CPU speeds doubled every 18 months. The last significant leap forward was the first Intel Core Duos. Since then speeds only go up ~3% per generation. You can add more cores but some programs are still single core, and games generally only use around 50% of my quad core (GPU usage can go up to 97% though).

      • Haswell can be substantially faster in video encoding. Google the benchmarks. And its more like 5-10%.

    • Similarly, I still have a 2500k that's still competitive. Also I heard that this coming season's Broadwell will have a pretty quick lifecycle and that Skylake (or whatever it's called) will be replacing it in less than 12 months…

      I don't do much cutting edge gaming so I'm pretty happy to wait for Skylake.

  • +1

    I'd consider this a great deal, but…
    This is for:
    - Budget with with non-gaming purposes (editing, rendering, ect…)
    - No Overclock
    - Converted to AUD it's currently at similar price as a Xeon E3 1231v3,

    This is not for:
    - Budget with main-gaming (i5 would be more fitting or even an AMD)
    - Overclocker
    - No-budget (like seriously!)
    - Anyone that already have an i7 (second or third gen if non-K), although this should refers to your specific purposes, check benchmarks on your most-used programs. (Gaming is probably excluded for now due to my friend running a first-gen i7 and is not meeting any bottleneck with his GTX770)
    - Your non-gaming purposes don't use the Hyper Threading (this one is easy to miss here)

    Short-version: On budget but have more than gaming and normal things to do on your computer? This is for you. If there's anything I missed or misworded, please feel free to comment down below.

    • I've got a first gen i7-960 still is a meaty cpu

  • +1

    OP, where did you see it for $323? CPL are selling it for $365.

      • +1

        Clicking it shows up at $375 with

        Special price $323 must order with
        PSU 950W Cooler Power (M) ($109 Sold out)

        • +1

          okay cheers. I'll be going with a Seasonic G550W gold PSU with my build in about a fortnight so I'll stick with CPL. If I had time I'd get it from Amazon.

  • I clicked on the link but it says
    Price: $302.99 + $4.99 shipping

    Am i doing something wrong?

    I tried to check out any way to see if it would go down at check out but it gave me another error saying Amazon cannot deliver to Australia for this item?

    • Deal expired.

  • Same here Uniforms. Also I can't check out since it won't ship to AU. Weird, I've purchased other intel CPUs from Amazon before and they've been able to ship.

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