What the FUCK is going on with the pricing of Kaby Lake chips? They're LITERALLY trying to sell an i3 for £183 which is fucking high-end i5 pricing territory. Who the fuck is going to buy this shit? You could get a way better i5-6500 or i5-7400 for the EXACT same price, or a 6600k for ~£20 more. Meanwhile you've got the Pentium G4560 which is completely killing intel's own i3 line, dominating the price/performance ratio by giving you practically i3-6100 performance for £65. Even the i5 prices look weird when you place them next to the fucking £65 Pentium G4560, which can easily drive a RX 480 or GTX 1060 just fine.
In short, intel have driven their own i3 line into redundancy by releasing a £65 CPU that is only marginally worse than a £183 CPU, while also keeping the i5's at roughly the same price.
The 7350K is a meme. It has the same performance per clock as the i3 6100 which can also be overclocked to nearly the same speed on the same Z170 motherboards. It also costs half as much.
Wyatt Morris
A few things. Shit's always at a premium early in the product life cycle. Normies feel expensive = best. Finally, AMD's continued incompetence has left intel with a near monopoly so they can do what they wants and people will still buy it.
tl;dr blame normalfags and AyyMD
Gabriel Barnes
the 7350K is as faster than the i5 6400 and i5 4670K due to vastly superior stock clocks and 4.9~5ghz overclocks.
It's been wildly reported the past few months.
Benjamin Perez
the real question is, why are you even looking at the i3 when you can get a kabylake pentium?
Brody Sanders
Better question, why get an unlocked Kaby i3 when you could get an i5 6400 for the same price and overclock it for 50% more performance?
If the i3 7350K is within your budget buy a Skylake i5 and OC it. If you're poor buy a Kaby G4560.
Intel really fucked up their own line, didn't they?
John Hall
Any k series CPU is a waste of money.
Hudson Martinez
It's a shame there's so much fud surrounding non-k overclocking. Googling g it brings up endless posts that read as if they're made by Intel reps spreading dumb misinfo about microcode updates, overheating and "just buy k if you want to overclock"
Levi Walker
Now, yes, because Skylake crashed through the door screaming "Free the overclocking! Viva BLCK libre!"
But it used to make sense when they weren't quite as expensive, like the 2500K meme. If you bought a non-K 2500 you're probably pretty upset instead of gloating.
Robert Collins
Yeah. Core temps don't work (use package temperature) and neither do low power states or the iGPU. Everything else works fine and the microcode update was a scare tactic that never happened.
Jaxson Gomez
Also half speed avx, meaningless to most people but worth being aware of.
Jayden Nelson
>have 2500k >no need to upgrade until 2020
kys
Brody Nguyen
>geekbench
Dylan Torres
And what happens when you overclock the 6400, which you can and should be doing?
A 1% IPC boost and moar hertz doesn't beat two more physical cores and more cache.
Tyler Hughes
>fucking high-end i5 pricing territory Bullshit, I paid 240 euros for my i5 6500.
Jacob Lee
>Waaaaaah I overpaid
your own fucking fault
Joseph Gutierrez
Probably even longer
You don't want to know what IL+1 is slated to be. Anti-consumerist af, theres gonna be lawsuits over it.
Gabriel Reed
So i5 6500 was the best choice then
Ryder Smith
>Geekbench I want to find and kill you
Brandon Bailey
Yeah Its pretty fucked, OP. Its like Intel doesn't care about Ryzen at all.
Landon Torres
Fuck off, it's the standard price.
Jackson Williams
they're just fucking around at this point. hopefully, ryzen will live up to the expectations and actually be competitive, not that it would affect me since i'm sticking w/ 6th gen and win7 >inb4 install linux i'm a "gaymer"
Alexander Nguyen
I'm not quite sure where you're getting your pricing info from. I get my info straight from the source:
> trying to sell an i3 for fucking high-end i5 pricing territory
On that page, the highest i3 (i3-7350K) sells for $168. High-end i5 territory can be found right above it, and is $242. In fact, the highest i3 is cheaper than even the LOWEST priced i5.
So, no, there is no i3/i5 price inversion.
> Meanwhile you've got the Pentium G4560 which is completely killing intel's own i3 line.
I would have to agree with that. The 4-thread Pentiums are a way better value than any of the i3/i5/i7 chips if you're just looking at performance per cost. There is pretty much no excuse for buying anything in the lower half of the i3 list, because a Pentium G4560 performs almost as well for half the price.
Carson Garcia
>Intel really fucked up their own line, didn't they? This is what happens when a company only competes with itself for over 6 years. Eventually its lineup gets too crowded and starts cannibalizing sales of other products.
What you're seeing is the opening act of Intel consuming itself from within. AMD coming in and competing on price will offer some relief but the bean counters will hate it and push the top level to keep the prices for Intel's lineup more or less where it's at.
