Unless you are desperate to own a Core i9 for the novelty factor, this is the much better buy.ĪMD Ryzen 2700X processor for £300 - was £320 It's also available at a significantly lower price than the top-tier Intel processor. The Core i7 9700K offers nearly identical gaming performance to the Core i9 9900K, sometimes even outperforming the i9 thanks to its omission of hyperthreading. Intel Core i7 9700K processor for £390 - was £410 That provides top-notch performance in games, but you'd probably need to use this for some work-related purpose to really justify the expense over the nearly-equally-good-at-games Core i7 9700K or the still perfectly adequate Core i7-8700K. It's an eight core, sixteen thread processor clocked at 3.6GHz, with a single core max turbo of 5.0GHz, a 16MB cache and 95W TDP. The Core i9 9900K is the fastest 'consumer' CPU on the market, as you might guess from the number of 9s in its name.
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Intel Core i9 9900K processor for £540 (was £599) Looking for more than just CPUs? See all of our Black Friday 2018 tech deals, including TVs, monitors, PC hardware and gaming peripherals of all kinds. For now though, let's get right into the recommendations. We'll also keep this updated throughout Cyber Monday, so check back often to see the latest deals.
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We've rounded up the best Cyber Monday 2018 deals on CPUs, including both AMD and Intel, so that you can save some money on the world's biggest shopping holiday.
Cyber monday computer deals 2018 desktop upgrade#
If you're planning to upgrade your PC with a new processor - or build a whole new rig - then you're in the right place. While graphics cards will have a bigger impact on performance in most games, having a strong processor is also important - especially if you're looking to reach the hundreds of frames per second demanded by the most recent high refresh rate gaming monitors. The CPU is the beating heart of your computer, the component that determines how fast your computer can be across a range of tasks from gaming to number-crunching.