why i7 6700k always OUT OF STOCK while 6600k is available

[yafatana]

what is the reason intel made many of 6600k but not 6700k ???

 

[jpiniero]

Yield. They aren't getting many chips that can hit 4/4.2 at the specified voltages and TDP.

 

[yafatana]

thanks for your answer

but sorry I did not understand you

can you tel me why in simple words .thank you

what do you mean by They aren't getting many chips that can hit 4/4.2 ??

 

[ShintaiDK]

Allocation.

I assume you are in the Americas.

 

[jpiniero]

thanks for your answer

but sorry I did not understand you

can you tel me why in simple words .thank you

what do you mean by They aren't getting many chips that can hit 4/4.2 ??

Only a small percentage of the chips are able to run at the specs set for the 6700K and nowhere near enough to satisfy worldwide demand. They even had to cut the desired turbo for the 6700K from 4.4 Ghz to 4.2 in order to have enough to even sort of sell. That's where the 6600K comes in, which is much easier.

 

[yafatana]

but what about the i7 6700k that sold to people in the world ?
they also have proplems or free of proplems ??

 

[ShintaiDK]

There isnt any problems with the chips or boards. Its what, the 3rd time you ask it?

 

[Atreidin]

Holy crap man just chill out, I don't know why you are so concerned with the idea of there being problems with Skylake processors, but it's not worth being so obsessed about.

 

[jpiniero]

but what about the i7 6700k that sold to people in the world ?
they also have proplems or free of proplems ??

Intel tests the chips very well so if you get one you can be assured it will run just fine. The ones that wouldn't be fine end up as 6600K.

 

[dark zero]

Novelty. The i7 are the novelty at difference as the i5, just like the i5 2500 and i7 2600... at last the i5 was way more useful.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Years ago, when Intel was launching Core2Quad, there was the QX6700 which launched at $999. Supplies ran dry on those processors at that price, and the only shop with any left in the US was NewEgg which decided to start selling them at prices as high as $1400 (or more if I recall correctly) according to their pricing algorithm. So, this isn't anything especially new.

 

[tential]

I think OP wants it in a nontechnical way guys.

OP, when intel makes the chips, then then test the chips to see how fast they run. If they can run fast enough, they become an i7 6700k. More chips than normal didn't meet the i7 speeds and intel shipped out enough to other markets, but there is not enough to meet the US demand of the i7 chip. There are more i5 6600k chips because those chips do not run as fast, so it is more likely that when intel tests those chips, it will hit the correct speeds.

Does that make more sense OP?

 

[yafatana]

tential -I cant find best answer button -
but best answer is for you .

 

[Kenmitch]

Demand greater than supply. As far as yield goes it's one of Intel dark secrets.

Looks like Newegg has them in stock....Bundle only?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...gclid=CLPY29uP48cCFZRgfgod9CgIWA&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[iSkylaker]

Demand greater than supply. As far as yield goes it's one of Intel dark secrets.

Looks like Newegg has them in stock....Bundle only?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...gclid=CLPY29uP48cCFZRgfgod9CgIWA&gclsrc=aw.ds

umm...interesting. At least it tells it can be used with the Intel stock fan, I'm going with first available, either the i7-6700 or the i7-6700K to underclock and use a cheap Intel stock fan in it.

 

[LTC8K6]

IIRC, there is no stock 6700K cooler. So what cooler would it be?

 

[CakeMonster]

Yield. They aren't getting many chips that can hit 4/4.2 at the specified voltages and TDP.

TDP, possibly.

But given people's experiences with OC and undervolting, I doubt the frequency or voltage is the problem.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I don't find it surprising. The 4790K almost outsold the 4690K by 2x going by the number of user reviews. 6700K demand should be even higher as early Skylake adopters definitely won't be skimping on the CPU and put in limited supply from bleeding edge 14nm fabs to the mix and the result is OOS everywhere.

 

[MongGrel]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2446839

 

[Omar F1]

Bogus launch of Broadwell followed by a ghost launch of Skylake; it is something unusual from Intel.

 

[sm625]

Because everyone just has to buy a 6700K. It doesnt matter that a 6600K will yield the same performance in 98% of scenarios, and is only a few % slower overall, for significantly less money. Should we be surprised that people cant do math? That's why they build computers in the first place!

 

[Roland00Address]

Op you already got your question answered but here is an analogy to visualize the situation better.

When making cookies every cookie should be made of the same ingredients for they all came from the same reciepe and the same bowel.

But when you put them in the oven some come out AAA perfect, some are AA, others are A, B, C, D or F.

At the factory the chips are tested and sorted and the best ones are made i7s. The non AAA are still good just not perfect. Since not everyone wants to pay $350 for a chip but would pay $250, $200, or $175 Intel purposefully removes features and makes the cookie smaller and they may not add frosting to justify why the i7s cost $350 and cheaper i5s cost $175 to $250. Intel rather make the lower graded chips into the cheaper skus and those pristine perfect chips are treated as their stars.

 

[dark zero]

Bogus launch of Broadwell followed by a ghost launch of Skylake; it is something unusual from Intel.

Not unusual since AMD is dead and Intel is getting more money selling the chip in bundles that gets a little expensive and adding that people only wants new i7.... Poor i5...

 

[Chaosblade02]

People want the I7 because at this point in time its more future proof. Games are already starting to use more than 4 cores/threads, whereas back when the I5 2500k came out, you were better off getting the I5. More games are going to be heavily multithreaded because both the new console systems use 8 core CPUs.

 

[iSkylaker]

IIRC, there is no stock 6700K cooler. So what cooler would it be?

Probably the one that ships with Haswell/Devil's Canyon CPUs.