Comparing this to staticice and previous ozb posts this seems like a good price, note it is shipped from the USA. The newegg catalogue for black friday is already out and the 9600K is listed for the same price, 249.99USD.
Intel Core i5-9600K Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.7 Ghz Processor $384.81 Delivered @ Newegg
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It is still slightly cheaper from newegg though, and ~$20 cheaper if you do not have ebay plus.
You can always just create a new account and get free eBay plus trial.
Are you suggesting to selling out local business for a 2% increase?
Gosh i5s definitely have gone up in price with the newer generations haven't they
I wonder what's next. Apple, Nvidia, Intel and other phone manufacturers also had a big increase in prices. It's just so sad.
That's flagships for you.
The budget end of the Android market has never been better IMO.
Well, I agree with that!
Even the budget end has gotten more expensive.
I paid $130 for a Xiaomi Note 4X. Note 5 is $200 now
I wonder how much of the price increases are going into paying the EU fines and allocated into paying future fines?
Well they have six cores up from four 2 generations ago so they aren't really comparable.
A better comparison would be the four core i5-8400 or the equivalent in the 9 series if it's available.
The i5 8400 (locked 8th gen i5) is a hexcore processor, not a quad core.
Mostly its because USD has gotten a lot stronger.
List price of 6600K and 9600K is basically the same.
Intel is putting out more cores at the same price because of Ryzen competition
You can thank the worth of the Aussie dollar for that.
As others have mentioned, AUD has gotten weaker and it's a new release.
It could get worse due to Trump's trade war with China and Intel's delayed 10nm process resulting in the 14nm process shortage.At least SSD prices are coming down nicely. Even RAM is slowly edging downwards.
Don't get me wrong, I believe they should be priced cheaper since they are essentially Skylake chips with more cores and slightly optimised but it's priced where it is due to supply/demand.
As long as there's equilibrium in supply/demand, it won't change, i.e. people are still buying at this price.To be fair, the i3 is very reasonably priced, while still producing good clocks on 4 cores and I assume will eventually get the soldered heatspreaders with 9th gen
This gen is kind of disappointing. Should be the Intel "8th gen S"
It's a little surprising they went with 9th Gen - as you say, these are much more akin to the "Devil's Canyon" Haswell-refresh processors.
Exactly, whats exactly new? Slightly higher clock speed and better thermals? Should get good value when 8th gen stock starts getting dumped at least.
More cores is the biggest thing.
@ClintonL: The i5 8600k also has 6 cores, so the 9600k did not increase in core count. It is basically a refresh of the 8600k with Liquid metal under the Integrated heat spreader instead of thermal paste and it has slightly higher clock speeds. ReverseBias and WhiskeyBurn are pretty accurate in their description of the 9600k, unfortunately the mainstream 9xxx series also require a new Mobo/z390 chipset whereas refreshes like the haswell refresh could be run on the same mobo as haswell with a bios update.
Personally, I have an i5 8600k that I recently put conductonaut on and overclocked to 5ghz on water, which will outperform this cpu at stock clocks and with the price increase and cost of a new mobo, you'd have to be almost insane to upgrade an 8xxx to a 9xxx series. If you can build a pc, then delidding a cpu should be easy enough so this should be considered as it would be cheaper to do this to an 8600k than to buy a new cpu/mobo for the same benefit. I got my i5 8600k for 320au delivered on ebay about 4months ago, add the $20 for thermal grizzly conductonaut and borrow a delid tool like I did and I've gotten more performance at a cheaper price for buying last generation a few months before this released.
IMO Intel has lost the plot, it would have made more sense to do an i5 8690k on the z370 chipset instead of wasting the 9xxx series on a refresh. They are even butchering the extreme series now and have released a skylake refresh and naming it as 9th gen 9xxx. Nothing makes sense anymore with this company. The way I am seeing it, 9xxx series just means they soldered the cpu to the ihs instead of using paste which you can do to any intel cpu yourself to increase performance and clock speed. Here's a very recent video explaining Intel's latest shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ww2vNAjN0&t=0s
@justtoreply: Have you done it before? I have several friends that have delided with no problems and one of them is even a rough as guts diesel mechanic that delided he's cpu with ease and I configured he's pc for him because he new that little about part compatibility. If that newb can delid he's cpu a week or two after building he's first pc that someone else configured, than I remain firm in my opinion that someone who is experienced in building a pc, shouldn't have a problem in doing this.. As for the risk, which is small unless you have half a brain and cant watch a youtube tutorial, or have the shakes or something, it is worth it.
For better thermals and speeds than the 9600k, instead of spending 380 + 200+ on a decent mobo, lets say $600, you can buy a replacement 8600k if you kill your first one and try deliding twice before spending as much as you would upgrading to the 9600k. They make tools that literally make this process as idiot proof as it can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopM4p4CBrs@justtoreply: Additionally, do a quick google search and you'll also find adds like the one below, almost in every suburb around me lol. Some services even offer a guarantee or like in this example, have 100% success over a large quantity of delids. It's hardly risky and if you were that scared than it would only cost $40-$50 to get someone who knows what they are doing to do it. If you had an 8600k, that's $50 vs $600 and you will end up with better thermals and performance as liquid metal is still more efficient than Intels new soldering technique on the 9xxx series…
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/osborne-park/components/cpu-…@Tythefly86: You're over-estimating the technical ability/willingness of the majority of the general public, it's great that you were able to achieve what you did with the last generation of Intel processors, but most people prefer a plug and play solution when it comes to custom PC building.
What? 9th gen already ?
I guess AMD did bite into Intel.
How so? The 8th gen chips were released this time last year.
They may have planned for 6 core 8th gen chips to release but it was rushed out to combat AMD's Ryzen.
There were hardly any stock when it was released and Z370 boards were delayed.Wait, that may be wrong. I think it was the non OC boards that were delayed?
Can't remember.
1700x is $220 from newegg now and this i5 is asking for almost double the price.
What's wrong with Intel?
Prefer ryzen to be honest but good price
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-S1151-Core-i5-9600K-3-7GHz…
$390 local, better option.