Recent content by Hate130

8700k will have more cores which handbrake should be able to use.

Well, as someone with an unlimited PC budget, I was aiming at an 8700K simply because it appears to have superior single-thread performance. Given how much is still dependent on single-thread performance I find it difficult to buy a chip that compromises on it.

Yeah... I am on hold right now to cancel. Only took 17 minutes to get through, and then she muted me for 15 while she got "cancellation authorization". Now I have a "cancellation authorization reference number" that may take several days to process. What a joke. She straight up told me that...

Not any more. My order with TigerDirect has been "at drop shipper" for 7 days now. Starting to think they may have pulled a fast one with the "In Stock" notification.

I wonder what Newegg gets out of that deal? Are they overcharging on the motherboards? It seems to me that people shopping on Newegg for their cpu have most likely also gotten a mobo from them.. I bit the bullet on the TigerDirect "deal" in Canada, which thanks to recent currency changes and...

lol, you seem unnecessarily angry.

Sure, but it seems like an odd choice that they'd resolve that by fully stocking in Europe and Asia and releasing 0 in North America.

Looks like "finally available" might be a bit of a misnomer. I can't find it anywhere in NA.