What happened to the i7-7700K's at Microcenter ?

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I was just in Microcenter yesterday, on the website before I went and they had plenty of 7700K's. Today there isn't an i7-7700K to be found on Microcenter. Anybody know what happened ?
 
Spaceninja said:
Maybe they are pulling them for a ver 2.0 with Spectre and Meltdown fixes?
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Surely that's a joke... I can't imagine Intel are actually actively producing any more Kaby Lake based processors now that Coffee Lake has been in production for what, almost six months? I'd figure there is more than enough existing stock out there...

Not that I wouldn't like to see a revision. The chances that I would actually get bitten thanks to the vulnerabilities are pretty low to nonexistent, the chances that I would be affected by the workarounds / patches / microcode updates are 100% and at some point we will be forced to apply them. :(
 
NoxTek said:
Surely that's a joke... I can't imagine Intel are actually actively producing any more Kaby Lake based processors now that Coffee Lake has been in production for what, almost six months? I'd figure there is more than enough existing stock out there...

Not that I wouldn't like to see a revision. The chances that I would actually get bitten thanks to the vulnerabilities are pretty low to nonexistent, the chances that I would be affected by the workarounds / patches / microcode updates are 100% and at some point we will be forced to apply them. :(
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Probably not, but the lawyers might have gotten involved and told them to quit selling them to avoid a class action suit. That would be my only thought.
 
I Just Googled i7-7700K to see who has it, Microcenter being one of them, clicked on it and it says 'This product is no longer available' That's really odd.
 
Spaceninja said:
Maybe they are pulling them for a ver 2.0 with Spectre and Meltdown fixes?
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Pulling them? Yes, this is likely. Replacing older Skylake's and Kaby Lakes.... I don't see that happening. If they are going to replace stock on the shelf with new/fixed versions, it will only be the current lineup. So if you still want a Skylake/Kaby Lake chip, you better snap one up now. Because they are all going to vanish like virgins on prom night.

NoxTek said:
Surely that's a joke... I can't imagine Intel are actually actively producing any more Kaby Lake based processors now that Coffee Lake has been in production for what, almost six months?
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Agreed
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Shifted deprecated inventory to a liquidation channel?

Incentives to push Coffee Lake along the lines of "your remaining Kaby Lake inventory is zero balance and what remaining inventory you paid for we credit in Coffee Lake inventory to get it out of the public eye".

I never liked a manufacturer killing off lines via buybacks and blowing out inventory in channels that disqualify purchaser from a warranty, but you can't do anything about it if you want to stay in biz.
 
The thing is, and I noticed this almost immediately after the Coffee Lake lineup was announced, Intel never provided an equivalent to the i7 7700k through the Coffee Lake lineup. There's a gap between the i3 and i5, neither one equating exactly to an i7 7700k. So then you start thinking, "... well an i5 8600k has 6 cores, and costs less, so it must be superior!" But that's not always going to be the case.

There's still merit for something like an i7 7700k still existing, but I get the impression Intel wants a gap there or, eventually, to have it not exist for whatever reason. Tinfoil hat engaged?
 
Intel does this all the time. Coffee Lake replaces Kaby Lake. At least on the higher end of the mainstream lineup. The Core i5 8600K replaces the 7600K and the 8700K replaces the 7700K. These CPU's are at a similar price point to that of the outgoing CPU's. It was the same deal with the 6600K and the 6700K. When the i5/i6 7x00 came out and stock dried up, the older 6x00 series chips weren't available in retail stores anymore. This isn't hard to figure out.

Intel is probably not making anymore of these CPUs. Existing supplies will fulfill orders placed by retailers and OEMs if they haven't already. Intel forces it's OEMs and partners to use the newer SKUs whether they like it or not. Microsoft and other companies in this market do the same thing.
 
Spaceninja said:
Maybe they are pulling them for a ver 2.0 with Spectre and Meltdown fixes?
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I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the best Intel can do in the short term is deploy microcode patches that trade off performance for security. They are months and months and months away from being able to manufacture processors that are immune to meltdown while retaining pre-meltdown performance. If I'm right, we're not likely to see truly meltdown immune processors from Intel until a generation or two down the line.

I think the supply of 7700k chips is just drying up. The Michigan Microcenter is out of 7700k CPUs. They have much of the kaby lake line in stock, including 7700s, but parts that have a coffee lake equivalent and are out of stock are showing as discontinuted (7600k is another example at the MI location).
 
bwbob said:
They show available and in-stock in both Atlanta stores
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Really? I just checked the intel processor page on the web site and I don't see any 7700k's in stock. Just 7700...

That being said if anyone's interested, as of this post I do see an open box 7900X at the Marietta center, for 599$:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/...ition_Skylake_33_GHz_LGA_2066_Boxed_Processor
(obviously you'd have to change the store at the top to Marietta)


Maybe one of you'd like to jump on it because that's a pretty big discount? I got my 8700k open box and it's been working just fine.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
Really? I just checked the intel processor page on the web site and I don't see any 7700k's in stock. Just 7700...

That being said if anyone's interested, as of this post I do see an open box 7900X at the Marietta center, for 599$:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/...ition_Skylake_33_GHz_LGA_2066_Boxed_Processor
(obviously you'd have to change the store at the top to Marietta)


Maybe one of you'd like to jump on it because that's a pretty big discount? I got my 8700k open box and it's been working just fine.
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Sounds pretty hot
 
Hrmmm....very tempting. I'm also tempted to pick up Threadripper. I've been a multicore/multiprocessor whore since the Pentium Pro days though.
 
Looks like they are gone from Chicago stores. i7-7700 still available, which, imho is basically the same thing.
Edit: 7700 looks like 10% slower @ stock, so slightly different...
 
I think they sometimes just do random stuff with their inventory system online. The other day, I noticed that the Ryzen 7 1700X and 1800X were listed as no longer carried, but I was looking today, and they're both back in stock.
 
/dev/null said:
Looks like they are gone from Chicago stores. i7-7700 still available, which, imho is basically the same thing.
Edit: 7700 looks like 10% slower @ stock, so slightly different...
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You can't overclock the 7700...

yee245 said:
I think they sometimes just do random stuff with their inventory system online. The other day, I noticed that the Ryzen 7 1700X and 1800X were listed as no longer carried, but I was looking today, and they're both back in stock.
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Looks like that might be it, the 7700k's are suddenly back for the ATL region.

Side note Marietta has an open box 7700k for 223. >_>
 
/dev/null said:
Looks like they are gone from Chicago stores. i7-7700 still available, which, imho is basically the same thing.
Edit: 7700 looks like 10% slower @ stock, so slightly different...
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K-series CPU's are unlocked and overclockable. The standard 7700 is not.
 
/dev/null said:
Looks like they are gone from Chicago stores. i7-7700 still available, which, imho is basically the same thing.
Edit: 7700 looks like 10% slower @ stock, so slightly different...
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And....10+ available at both Chicago stores. Maybe they take it down from the web page when re-inventorying?
 
/dev/null said:
And real world difference these days for most things doesn't matter that much...
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If you're going to go that route, might as well go to the extreme end of the argument and buy an i3. Whether it's 30%, or 5%, or situational usefulness (ie certain games), it's still statistically significant. These are numbers that most enthusiasts care about. Otherwise we wouldn't bother with the top end.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
If you're going to go that route, might as well go to the extreme end of the argument and buy an i3. Whether it's 30%, or 5%, or situational usefulness (ie certain games), it's still statistically significant. These are numbers that most enthusiasts care about. Otherwise we wouldn't bother with the top end.
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Nah, I still want 4 cores, 8 threads as that is more important than clock. I'd of course prefer a 7700k at MC prices, but a 7700 is so close it makes really no difference.
 
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