Intel is Dropping Processor Prices in Wake of Ryzen Launch
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Stormyandcold
HH, Did you get one of those emails from intel regarding Ryzen review guidelines?
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Intel dropped PR in the Netherlands, they do not communicate whatsoever with Dutch press. Regardless, I always test my own way and not what a manufacturer indicates or finds 'the best'.
Stormyandcold
Cool, cheers. Looking forward to the full Ryzen reviews and articles.
Silva
Intel: "I'm sure Ryzen can't touch our CPU market, let's just lower the prices a bit so media keeps talking about us"
AMD: "Puny kids, the new king is here, AMD has risen!"
Seriously, what do they expect with these price drops? Still far from competitive...if they want to keep selling they need to set the price lower than the competition for their house warmers with 140W TDP.
Noisiv
So basically its one retailer that got nervous, and decided to drop prices on some models, with "in store pickup" and limited availiability.
Lets hope for a chain reaction. And then a price war.
I sure as hell wont be buying supposedly super cheap 8-core at a bargain price of "only" $400.
For that money I can get nice amp, or a NAS, or new Vega gfx card :P
The Laughing Ma
Indeed, take a look at the News forum, look at how many of the posts over the last few weeks are all about Ryzen. Drop a little price drop in the mix and boom top topic is people talking about Intel. Doesn't matter weather Intel are concerned about Ryzen all this is is a little prod to keep Intel in peoples' mind at a time when everyone is talking about Ryzen.
The real action will happen when the benchmarks start rolling in, even then I would still expect some pricing action by Intel even if their chips are still blowing AMDs new CPUs out of the water, yet again just to keep them in the mix.
AlmondMan
Do you have any links to this?
Ricepudding
The 6900k atleast here in the UK has actually gone up in price, last month it was around the £999 mark now it's currently sitting at £1011 😏not sure what happened there. Even with these price drops least from what we can tell so far in terms of performance they are still being priced way too highly
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-core-i7-6900k-s-2011-3-broadwell-e-8-core-16-thread-32ghz-clock-4ghz-turbo-20mb-40-lane-140w-c
Undying
This only shows how intentional these CPU was overpriced. Paying a 250Eur for 4c/4t CPU is just ridiculous.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Question, do they add any taxes on top of the price like sales tax etc ?
Neo Cyrus
Sales tax in North America is not included in prices online or in-store.
Some states have no sales tax, while most do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States
Undying
Indeed but things change. These price "reductions" are still far from competitive. I have feeling when Ryzen 5 6c/12t lands in next couple of months Intel wont have a chance with this lineup.
wavetrex
/me starts to look for cheap 2nd hand 6900K to fit in my shiny Sk2011 motherboard 🙂
It's a win-win for everyone, including Intel CPU users ^.^
(Well, -almost- everyone, the only loser is Intel, but they have PLENTY of reserve cash so it's more of a bleeding nose than a punch in the stomach)
H83
For me is clear that Intel has to cut the prices of the X99 cpus because Ryzen will offer (almost) the same performance at much lower prices. As for the rest of the line up, i´m not so sure, specially because AMD still has to release their mainstream chips.
But i have to agree with everyone else regarding Intel´s prices, they are just too overpriced!
cowie
I don't think you can beat mc's cpu walk in prices anywhere plus they let you pick your own stepping.
3% sales tax in the Paterson store and you have a great deal.
I might check them out looking for an amd cpu and board while I am there lol
from mc launch prices its like 30usd cheaper across the board with these discounts
nz3777
I use to work for Micro center guys, and while I never managed to find out how much mc would by cpu's in bulk price-I did try my hardest to find out believe me. They do have the best price on cpu and motherboards I can assure you of that!
Damm I miss the days having to price and then stock a couple cart full of brand spankin new cpu's from intel and amd. My best guess would be they get them at maybe $100 under retail cause they are buying so many of them.
nz3777
They price match against new-egg and match or beat (any) advertised price on cpu deals guys. It says so on the catalog. Yes you add sales tax to that, by me thats what 7-8% I wanna say? Chicago.
cryohellinc
All i can say thank you to AMD for being competitive. And actually SO Competitive. Cant wait to see final benchmarks of 1800x.
However now whats more interesting is how Intel will respond in terms of their next CPU lineup. If they won't have anything to offer in terms of cheap 8th gen Cpu's that perform same or better than Intel, then Intel is in trouble.
Cyberdyne
Yet another misleading title from Guru3D.
Undying
Haha. 😀
HH tend to do a clickbaits lately. Nothing wrong with that.
