Is this even right? (3770k for 229.99 @ Microcenter)

[uclaLabrat]

But you get Fry's.

I have a Fry's and a MC within 10 miles of me :sneaky:

 

[fyb3r]

For future reference, microcenter will price match any newegg deals

 

[ElFenix]

They get you on the memory. Great CPU and motherboard prices. Horrible prices on junk memory.

That's not been my experience at all. Only thing they're not competitive on is video cards and new egg's monthly seasonic blowouts.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

But you get Fry's.

i hate frys, id never shop there again. they advertise "specials" but with limited quantities, so youll go in there to get it and they be out of stock almost immediately. a lot of times theyll then try to sell you something that isnt on sale. i remember one time i saw a dude try to get an e8400 special, which they were of course out of and they tried to sell him a pentium 6300 "because its the same speed". microcenter clearly doesnt do that, they really honor those prices they advertise, so they are the preferred place to buy stuff

 

[Idontcare]

I have a Fry's and a MC within 10 miles of me :sneaky:

Before I moved away from the DFW metroplex it was pretty cool having Frys and MC both within a few miles right along the 75 central expressway.

Frys is no MC, that is like comparing Walmart to Target. One is more upscale than the other but so too is the atmosphere. If you are dirt poor and counting pennies then Frys probably seems like a waste of space, but if you enjoy having $4 coffee while you shop then Frys will be great.

I guess Target vs Walmart really doesn't do Frys justice, it is more like Ikea vs Walmart when shopping for your furniture.

 

[lagokc]

this is exactly why I can't figure out why there seems to be such a push towards lower i5's noting that the i7 is a waste of money. really? the price diff between an i7 and i5 is nothing. cool i saved $20 and lost 12% of perf! awesome!

By newegg/amazon prices the i7 is an extra $100 and since its main feature over the i5 (8 threads) isn't really useful for the primary use of CPU performance of most members here (let's be honest, games) the i7 doesn't really make sense.

Drop the i7 down to $250 with tax and suddenly the it becomes a lot more compelling. I did end up picking one up on the way home from work yesterday and it just clocks right up to 3.7GHz according to CPU-Z and I can't manage to max out all the cores on it when encoding. Thought it was strange it came with exactly the same heatsink/fan as the Pentium G2020.

 

[guskline]

I have a Fry's and a MC within 10 miles of me :sneaky:

uclaLabrat: I can't resist the famous Napolean Dynamite " LUCKEEEE- Gosh"!

 

[Bill Brasky]

For future reference, microcenter will price match any newegg deals

Microcenter will price match the ONLINE price ONLY. The email deals for valued customers will not be readeemed. Just a heads up.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Same here, never been to my mc here though. I'll have to check it out!

 

[Phynaz]

I've never tried to price match at MC. I just use them for the CPU/MB combo deals and when I need something right now. Otherwise it's Amazon or Newegg for me.

I way overpaid for a drive there not too long ago. Next time I'll know.

Thanks guys!

 

[lagokc]

Pricematch + 8% sales tax and same day vs Newegg price and free shipping

Tough call except for the things MC is actually cheaper on.

 

[bgt]

Lucky you. Here they're still 290 euro(cheapest) = a lot of dollars.

 

[tweakboy]

Makes sense, lowering prices about when the new Haswell ......

 

[mxnerd]

Yep. That's the price. It's been like that for 3 months, I think.

You have to add tax and the gasoline to get there though.

 

[cbrunny]

Heading across the border tonight to grab a 3770k at the nearest MC! Pretty excited. Taxes, conversion, and gas included, still $110 less expensive than buying in my area (Canada) (with a mobo).

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

If the 4770K is a great chip, which I see alot of 'booing' over, i'll get mine at Micro Center, but it looks unlikely.. but the again I might break down and do an upgrade.. problem is my i7 920 still runs Unreal Tournament III online VERY well. Pew Pew Pew, double jump + dodge off wall, sniper head-shot or Shock Rifle combo

 

[Headfoot]

this is exactly why I can't figure out why there seems to be such a push towards lower i5's noting that the i7 is a waste of money. really? the price diff between an i7 and i5 is nothing. cool i saved $20 and lost 12% of perf! awesome!

When I bought my 2500k it was 169.99 (really!! fantastic deal) and the 2700k was 229.99, so it was still a big enough difference that I didn't bother. If I was buying today I'd definitly do the 3770k over the 3570k at MC though

 

[fixbsod]

Perhaps I'm just living in the past too much -- back in the Netburst era the price difference between P4's (and cpus overall) were drastically different and overall much more expensive. Hard to nail down exact prices but I'm seeing $410 for 1.3GHz P4 vs $777 for 1.7 GHz in an article dated 12/20/2000 from the register. So back then you were already laying out a CHUNK of cash and then they gouged you a LOT more for something higher on the chain.

Today (ignoring the -E / EP/ etc class which really aren't aimed at consumers) I see the i7-3770k for $329 on newegg vs the lowest i3 avail -- the i3-3220 for $129. I know there are lower model "Pentium" style IBs avail but I also ignored Celeron type chips in the above. So around $130-330 vs $400-800. So from $129 --> $329 you get a CPU *TWICE* as fast and top of the line for desktops. Back in the day you paid at least $700+ for top of the line CPU and more than $330 price differential and got something like 20-30% faster.

So it's hard for me to see the screaming deals consumers have in front of them in the CPU market and then justifying saving a few $$ by dropping the model a bit. Esp since overall computer builds are about the same as before as many other components have shot through the roof in price -- esp GPU, PSU and HDDs. And even in your example you saved all of $60 ...

TL;DR -- When I was your age prices were higher and we liked it so quit your whining!

When I bought my 2500k it was 169.99 (really!! fantastic deal) and the 2700k was 229.99, so it was still a big enough difference that I didn't bother. If I was buying today I'd definitly do the 3770k over the 3570k at MC though

 

[Idontcare]

Lucky you. Here they're still 290 euro(cheapest) = a lot of dollars.

Your prices buy you more than just a processor though. Included in that purchase price are the fees necessary to subsidize a whole host of social services and job security that are deemed a national priority for your host country.

You are supposed to value those priorities and be proud to pay the overhead your society has elected to enforce upon itself. The lucky one here is supposed to be you, living in a society with such priorities versus us unfortunate yanks who forgo the civilized benefits in exchange for incrementally lower time-of-purchase pricing.

Your processor costs you no more than it costs us in the USA. The difference is we can get our processor ala cart; whereas yours comes as a bundle package with a side dish of social programs

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Microcenter doesn't always offer an immediate discount when processors are first released, and recently they've been stingier and stingier with their discounts. Long gone are the days of the ~$350 CPU selling for $200 @ MC.

And with less and less competition from AMD, I see the 4770K being priced near MSRP for the first month or few, and at best we'll be lucky to see a $40-80 discount if you buy a motherboard from them to go with the CPU.

I dunno, I could be wrong, we'll see, but that's the way things have been trending. Right now I'm getting ready to replace a 3570K+Z77 with a 4770K+Z87 and am fully prepared to pay quite a bit more than what I would pay for 3770K and new motheboard.

 

[cbrunny]

Heading across the border tonight to grab a 3770k at the nearest MC! Pretty excited. Taxes, conversion, and gas included, still $110 less expensive than buying in my area (Canada) (with a mobo).

Left my house at 5:30 pm. Looong wait at the border (way worse than I thought it would be), arrived at MC at 9:06. Despite (respectfully) pleading with the manager, she refused to let me in the store. There were still (many) customers in there. Intensely frustrating. I get it, I was late - yes. Zero compassion. She told me to come back at 10am - to which I replied, "It's a three hour drive." Just did not care at all. The funny thing is that I would have been in and out before most of the customers in the store had left. But nope, don't care. No compassion.

Not a good way to make customers feel valued. Quite unimpressed.

 

[lagokc]

Your prices buy you more than just a processor though. Included in that purchase price are the fees necessary to subsidize a whole host of social services and job security that are deemed a national priority for your host country.

You are supposed to value those priorities and be proud to pay the overhead your society has elected to enforce upon itself. The lucky one here is supposed to be you, living in a society with such priorities versus us unfortunate yanks who forgo the civilized benefits in exchange for incrementally lower time-of-purchase pricing.

Your processor costs you no more than it costs us in the USA. The difference is we can get our processor ala cart; whereas yours comes as a bundle package with a side dish of social programs

I like you

 

[Headfoot]

So it's hard for me to see the screaming deals consumers have in front of them in the CPU market and then justifying saving a few $$ by dropping the model a bit. Esp since overall computer builds are about the same as before as many other components have shot through the roof in price -- esp GPU, PSU and HDDs. And even in your example you saved all of $60 ...

TL;DR -- When I was your age prices were higher and we liked it so quit your whining!

I remember my grandpa telling me a story. He was a radiologist for a number of decades, and the university he worked for had a remote-work set up (back in the day, on 28.8k). He had to get the highest resolution large screen monitor he could at the time for reading the X-Rays, which of course at the time was $15,000. Good thing the university helped him out for at least $5,000 of it!

As good as that sounds, I think I might stick with my $130 1920x1080 monitors in the present instead

 

[Soleron]

Your prices buy you more than just a processor though. Included in that purchase price are the fees necessary to subsidize a whole host of social services and job security that are deemed a national priority for your host country.

You are supposed to value those priorities and be proud to pay the overhead your society has elected to enforce upon itself. The lucky one here is supposed to be you, living in a society with such priorities versus us unfortunate yanks who forgo the civilized benefits in exchange for incrementally lower time-of-purchase pricing.

Your processor costs you no more than it costs us in the USA. The difference is we can get our processor ala cart; whereas yours comes as a bundle package with a side dish of social programs

That would be accurate... if America didn't spend as much as Europe per capita on social programs, especially healthcare. Emergency medicine costs far more than preventative, and things via your medical system are very overpriced. America also has a higher percentage of state vs private employment, if anything. And defence spending per capita is a lot higher, which is pure tax money expenditure.

I wish a real comparison could be made between a minimalist government and Europe, but the US is not it.

 

[Homer Simpson]

didnt know MC would price match new egg. ill have to keep that in mind. i have a MC 5 minutes from my house. its both a blessing and curse. ive bought way too many things that i probably wouldnt have bought if it wasnt so close me.