Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop processors cross on sale later as of late, formally at any fee – however the CPUs are already that can be purchased, regardless that we maximum no doubt wouldn’t counsel doing so.

VideoCardz noticed that any person on eBay in the United Kingdom is promoting the Core Ultra 7 265K (which is the Core i7 an identical, for the ones nonetheless no longer used to Intel’s new naming scheme). It’s exorbitantly priced at £450, despite the fact that the power to make an be offering is provide – and for the reason that the retail value in the United Kingdom for the 265K is £380, you’d be beautiful daft to pay a £70 top rate at this level.

In the USA, the Core Ultra 7 265K could also be up on eBay with a few listings, regardless that in contrast to the United Kingdom, those chips are simply provided in a plastic clamshell (the United Kingdom list is a minimum of the total boxed product).

That stated, one of the most US listings is at $340, so it’s a minimum of less expensive than the $410 we will be able to see the Core Ultra 7 265K is priced at Newegg. Officially, it’s nonetheless on pre-order at US (and UK) outlets, however that can trade later as of late Thursday October 24, when the ‘go’ button is hit to make gross sales are living.

Whatever you do, don’t purchase those chips (or any others indexed prerelease on this way) – even if one might seem to be a bit of of a discount.

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As famous, those Core Ultra 7 265K processors are most commonly at foolish prime costs anyway, despite the fact that one would possibly tempt you with that $340 asking value which is a good bit lower than you’ll be able to get it at an authentic store. But word that the eBayer in query best has a few bits of comments, and so that you’re purchasing from a fully unknown supply, versus a correct retail channel the place you’ll get complete give a boost to and aftersales backup.

Even if the chip you purchase on eBay does end up to paintings, who is aware of whether or not it’s older pattern silicon that would possibly had been put in the course of the mill someway, and so may just much more likely manifest issues within the longer run. Issues you no doubt gained’t be lined for in any respect, form or shape.

And that’s no longer even making an allowance for that it isn’t, after all, even criminal to be promoting those chips on this approach.

At this level, the temptation to get a next-gen chip early is beautiful meaningless anyway – the total retail unencumber is actually about to return about afterward as of late. Just don’t let any low pricing idiot you, both. And but even so, you’ll desire a suitable motherboard – Arrow Lake makes use of a wholly new CPU socket – and those listings don’t seem to be providing that reasonably important piece of {hardware} to move with the processor anyway.