News Intel Promo Drops 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPU Pricing Up To 25 Percent

[Admin]

Intel kicked off a promotion that finds Coffee Lake processors selling way below their MSRP at various retailers.

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[kal326]

Meanwhile Microcenter has had the 9900K going for $379.99 for weeks now. Still ended up getting a 3700x over the 9th or 10th gen Intel offerings.

 

[TerryLaze]

Intel kicked off a promotion

Now that's straight up conjecture,intel didn't deny that they do promotional prices but you don't show any proof that any of the prices from the platforms you list actually got a price drop from intel or not,if they did one would think that the price drops would be much more uniform between all the retailers.

 

[edchan1975]

Microcenter is also selling the i7-10700K which has better specs than the i9-9900K for $349 ... That seems like the better buy.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Intel is trying really hard to stay relevant at this point but it's clear that they suck at consumer-friendly practices. A simple price promotion is not a hard thing to do and yet they've managed to screw it up royally.

It's really hard to get interested in a company that hasn't shown anything to inspire real excitement since the original Sandy Bridge and even that was priced through the roof.

Ryzen came out three years ago and AMD has been beating the tar out of Intel ever since. It's very telling that to get similar performance to any AMD CPU from the Intel side, you're STILL paying a good deal more, sometimes even three figures.

Intel's arrogance and inability to adjust to reality even after getting beaten pillar-to-post for three years is just astonishing.

 

[The Commander]

What's your guys thoughts on this now? Prices have continued to drop, with the 9900k/10700k going sub 330$ on the right days a mere week after this article was posted. I nabbed one at the time, and they still seem like a nice deal with Zen 3 out of stock and other 10th gen not budging in price.