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The i74790K and 4690K went up $50

Its canadian prices.

Prices wont drop due to anything else besides how the CAD develops against the USD.
 
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USD/EUR suffers the same, tho less and going in the "right" direction currently. But I sure miss the exchange rate a year ago whena euro gave ~1.35$ instead of ~1.15$. But its been as low as ~1.05$
 
Holy sweet jesus... $400 for a CPU that is 40% occupied by graphics transistors that most buyers will never even use. Talk about paying the Intel tax.... That comes out to about.... $160!!! That is enough to buy a free 750ti!!!

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Look at it this way . . . sure, HD4600 and below will probably never see utilization. But from Broadwell on up, those iGPUs should be quite useful for anyone that cares to program for them (OpenCL 2.0, Vulkan, DX12). The hardware is ubiquitous and will continue to be ubiquitous. Developers would be crazy not to target that hardware, since it will give them a leg up over competition that doesn't.

Unlike AVX2, all those features are/will be available from the lowest-end Broadwell up to the highest-end Skylake and beyond (Gen9 may add some stuff but whatever, point is Gen8 is OpenCL 2.0 compliant).

But yeah, on Haswell, I don't think we can expect much to be done with the iGPU outside of simple display duties or some awkward OpenCL 1.x functionality.
 
sm625 said:
Holy sweet jesus... $400 for a CPU that is 40% occupied by graphics transistors that most buyers will never even use. Talk about paying the Intel tax.... That comes out to about.... $160!!! That is enough to buy a free 750ti!!!
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Holy sweet jesus...5 years ago you had to pay the same exact amount for 4c/8t and you would not get any igpu at all.
http://ark.intel.com/products/48499
Thats like a $160 gift from intel...
 
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But yeah, on Haswell, I don't think we can expect much to be done with the iGPU outside of simple display duties or some awkward OpenCL 1.x functionality.
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Quick sync is awesome for streaming,fast transcoding,and watching 4k h264.
 
The CAD has lost about 15% of its value against the USD in the past year, so a Canadian Dollar that bought US$0.93 this time last year is worth only US$0.81 now. Since Intel bases their pricing on US Dollars, why wouldn't their chips cost more in Canada now than they did last year?

Assuming that Intel keeps the retail box MSRPs for the Skylake i5-6600K / i7-6700K at the same price or a few USD higher than their predecessors (just like the last several generations have), pricing at Canadian retail won't get any better for Canadians until the Loonie starts improving against the Greenback.
 
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I made this same observation a few months ago... (boy was it met with hostility, too!)

The dollar doesn't seem to quite make up the increase in price I've seen since the 2600k and 3770k days... half the increase, maybe... I guess rare earths and manufacturing were just more expensive recently? [shrug]
 
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Quick sync is awesome for streaming,fast transcoding,and watching 4k h264.
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Fair enough. That's one application for HD4xxx that sees some use (outside of regular display duty on machines with no dGPU). Such iGPUs still spend a lot of time as dead weight on systems equipped with dGPUs. Gen8/Gen9 open up new opportunities for developers.
 
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From where?
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From Crashtech, I presume....if you're lucky and win the audition, you could go on to be the owner of this rare 5Ghz 4790k beast that leads the prestigious 4 core anandtech CB 11.5 render benchmark. This chip has never been overclocked and was only used on occasional Sundays to fill out anand comment boxes. Other than that one time run for glory.

I'm awfully tempted. #1 in the anandtech CB 11.5 sweepstakes. Can't put a price on that. At least not in Canadian dollars, eh. :biggrin:
 
LOL! I was actually thinking of selling it in favor of some new shiny toy, but if the Broadwell DT chips never actually become available I might end up regretting it.
 
Blue_Max said:
I made this same observation a few months ago... (boy was it met with hostility, too!)

The dollar doesn't seem to quite make up the increase in price I've seen since the 2600k and 3770k days... half the increase, maybe... I guess rare earths and manufacturing were just more expensive recently? [shrug]
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Lets look on historical data:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=USDCAD=X+Interactive#{"range":"5y","allowChartStacking":true}

Q1 2011 for the 2600K.
Depending on when, you would pay between 0.95 to 1.00CAD for a USD.

Q2 2012 for the 3770K.
Roughly 1.00 CAD for 1.00 USD.

From a few months ago to now.
You pay between 1.20 and 1.27 CAD to 1.00 USD.
 
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