Skylake lower SKU's availability?

rastaban · Oct 10, 2015

All the articles I have read have pointed at a late Sept launch for the remainder of the desktop Skylake lineup, yet I have yet to see availability on any vendor websites. Anyone know what's going on?

Riouken · Oct 11, 2015

Same here, I have not been able to find any new news on this.I really want to use the new I3 CPU for a build for my daughters Christmas present.

Its kind of strange that everything says September yet we are almost mid October and not a peep.

Drown Babies · Oct 11, 2015

Amazon has the i5 6500, I picked one up a few weeks ago. I saw a few other non-K CPUs there, but I'm not so sure about i3's or any of the low power i5's.

rastaban · Oct 11, 2015

Yeah I did see the higher i5's trickle out on Newegg a couple weeks ago, but the i3's and lower have been elusive. The i3-6320 is particularly interesting with it's 3.9GHz clock.

TekRok · Oct 12, 2015

Is stock availability still an issue? Seriously? Why are these so popular when its not much of an improvement over 4790k?

Ocellaris · Oct 12, 2015

Igroock said:
Is stock availability still an issue? Seriously? Why are these so popular when its not much of an improvement over 4790k?

People are talking about the non K SKUs...

I'd be down for an i3 I think.

Riouken · Oct 14, 2015

Looks like they just started showing up today to some retailers:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B015VPX2EO/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

http://www.ncixus.com/products/?usa...ku=116491&vpn=BX80662I36100&manufacture=Intel

A little expensive at some, but hopefully the price stabilizes around the 125.00 mark.

Lol the 6320 has an eta of 11/13/15 but lol at the price, 205.00 shipped. Got to love the amazon market place...
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-CM80662...GZhrWPL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160,160_

Ocellaris · Oct 14, 2015

Good to see some of the smaller resellers have the CPUs, so at least some are out there. I figure once Newegg and Amazon have the CPUs the price will finally be at the correct MSRP. I plan to get one of the i3s just to make a lower power PC with.

rastaban · Oct 15, 2015

Riouken said:
Lol the 6320 has an eta of 11/13/15 but lol at the price, 205.00 shipped. Got to love the amazon market place...
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-CM80662...GZhrWPL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160,160_

Talk about a money grab...
and I sure hope that date is wrong

rastaban · Oct 17, 2015

i3-6320 spotted!
it says guarenteed delivery by end of the month, so they should be out really soon.

http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?2201250_g10e

a3venom · Oct 22, 2015

3.9 ghz skylake i3 vs 3.2 ghz haswell i5 will be an interesting bench in games.

craz0 · Oct 23, 2015

In Oz http://www.computeralliance.com.au/cpus/intel-1151
Pentium G4400 and i3 6100

Riouken · Nov 1, 2015

a3venom said:
3.9 ghz skylake i3 vs 3.2 ghz haswell i5 will be an interesting bench in games.

Looks like even the i3-6100 = i5-2500k...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwB1KRMpFdw

Cant wait to see some more reviews. Looks like the 6100 may be the new budget gaming build king for a while. Only down side is looks like for now you have to go with a higher end motherboard(Z170) vs (H170) to run the faster ram. Hopefully they bring more ram support to the H170 chipset.

defaultluser · Nov 1, 2015

Riouken said:
Looks like even the i3-6100 = i5-2500k...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwB1KRMpFdw

Cant wait to see some more reviews. Looks like the 6100 may be the new budget gaming build king for a while. Only down side is looks like for now you have to go with a higher end motherboard(Z170) vs (H170) to run the faster ram. Hopefully they bring more ram support to the H170 chipset.

Yeah, looks pretty sweet. Seems the cache prefetch improvements combined with fast DDR4 memory erase all the previous weaknesses of the i3 versus i5.

In every single game the $120 i3 is NO SLOWER than 77% of the $250 i5.

Ocellaris · Nov 2, 2015

Damn I just got parts to build an i5 6500 system on a H170 motherboard. Had no idea the RAM speed made such a big difference based on other reviews I read. Now I am sending this H170 board back to get a Z170 board and use the DDR4 2666 RAM I already have instead of being neutered by 2133 speeds on a H170

rastaban · Nov 2, 2015

where the heck is the 6320?
if nextwarehouse was advertising delivery by end of october, then surely there must be other US vendors with inventory by now...

zaniix · Nov 2, 2015

ocellaris said:
Damn I just got parts to build an i5 6500 system on a H170 motherboard. Had no idea the RAM speed made such a big difference based on other reviews I read. Now I am sending this H170 board back to get a Z170 board and use the DDR4 2666 RAM I already have instead of being neutered by 2133 speeds on a H170

MSI has 2 H170 boards that support higher clocked RAM

MSI H170A PC Mate
and
MSI H170 Gaming M3

rastaban · Nov 2, 2015

doh! i3-6300's all over eBay starting at $160!
how did I miss that

Riouken · Nov 2, 2015

zaniix said:
MSI has 2 H170 boards that support higher clocked RAM

MSI H170A PC Mate
and
MSI H170 Gaming M3

Did they release a bios update or something that im not seeing because both of them are only listed as 2133 support:

http://us.msi.com/product/mb/H170-GAMING-M3.html#hero-specification
http://us.msi.com/product/mb/H170A-PC-MATE.html#hero-specification

Looks like newegg lists them with more support. Not sure which one is correct just yet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130885

... Ok just read the Manual for the board and it only states 2133 support.

zaniix · Nov 2, 2015

Riouken said:
Did they release a bios update or something that im not seeing because both of them are only listed as 2133 support:

http://us.msi.com/product/mb/H170-GAMING-M3.html#hero-specification
http://us.msi.com/product/mb/H170A-PC-MATE.html#hero-specification

Looks like newegg lists them with more support. Not sure which one is correct just yet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130885

... Ok just read the Manual for the board and it only states 2133 support.

Yes the QVL shows support for memory at 2400
http://us.msi.com/support/mb/H170A-PC-MATE.html#support-mem

http://us.msi.com/support/mb/H170-GAMING-M3.html#support-mem

Clear as mud, I guess I have to agree that if you want 2666 memory it would be best to go z170.

Ocellaris · Nov 2, 2015

zaniix said:
Yes the QVL shows support for memory at 2400
http://us.msi.com/support/mb/H170A-PC-MATE.html#support-mem

http://us.msi.com/support/mb/H170-GAMING-M3.html#support-mem

Clear as mud, I guess I have to agree that if you want 2666 memory it would be best to go z170.

Also a lot of H170 boards list support for XMP profiles, even though XMP profiles are very frequently well over 2133 on a given stick of RAM. The mud just keeps getting thicker...

Ordered a Gigabyte Z170 board, I am into my "budget" upgrade for a lot more than I was expecting now.

Advil · Nov 6, 2015

ASROCK has a Z170 board that's pretty good for $99.

Ocellaris · Nov 6, 2015

Good deal on a MSI 170 board right now for Prime members, only $99!

Check out this deal:
Prime Members: MSI Z170A Gaming M5 ATX Intel Motherboard

http://slickdeals.net/share/ipad_app/fp/167715

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defaultluser · Nov 6, 2015

That's a pretty good deal. Makes a Skylake i3 purchase all the easier

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