Intel to launch the rest of Skylake range in two weeks: local pricing confirmed

Pricey they may be, Intel’s i7-6700K and i5-6600K “Skylake” are impressive, to say the least.

The i7-6700K, in particular, is a fantastic piece of silicon: It’s faster than even some of Intel’s much more expensive enthusiast-grade CPUs and it overclocks like a right beast.

Still, these are hardly the CPUs for the average user – they’re probably a little much for most gamers as well, something their price speaks to.

Fortunately, Intel is about to launch a great deal more variants, and very soon.

Skylake’s i7 (which includes the locked variants of the i7-6700 and i5-6600), i5, i3 and Pentium CPUs should, barring stock issues, be available for purchase by the end of the month.

Before you place your order for one, we would like to remind you that Skylake uses the new LGA 1151 socket type.

That means a new motherboard, and owing to the required Z170, H170 and B150 chipsets, DDR4 memory in all likelihood – it’s either that or much less capable DDR3L.

All-in-all, a Skylake CPU means a lot of new hardware is going to be required, so we would recommend saving.

Intel Skylake-S Desktop Processors Lineup
Model	Process	Cores	Clock Speeds	Cache	Memory Support	TDP	Int. Price	Local Price
Core i7-6700K	14nm	4/8	4.0 GHz / 4.2 GHz	8 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	91W	$350	R5, 199
Core i5-6600K	14nm	4/4	3.5 GHz / 3.9 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	91W	$242	R3, 699
Core i7-6700	14nm	4/8	3.4 GHz / 4.0 GHz	8 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	65W	$312	R4, 697
Core i5-6600	14nm	4/4	3.3 GHz / 3.9 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	65W	$224	R3, 337
Core i5-6500	14nm	4/4	3.2 GHz / 3.6 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	65W	$202	R2, 986
Core i5-6400	14nm	4/4	2.7 GHz / 3.3 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	65W	$187	R2, 900
Core i3-6320	14nm	2/4	3,9 GHz / N/A	4 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$157	TBC
Core i3-6300	14nm	2/4	3.8 GHz / N/A	4 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$147	TBC
Core i3-6100	14nm	2/4	3.7 GHz / N/A	4 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$117	TBC
Core i7-6700T	14nm	4/8	2.8 GHz / 3.6 GHz	8 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$303	TBC
Core i5-6600T	14nm	4/4	2.7 GHz / 3.5 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$213	TBC
Core i5-6500T	14nm	4/4	2.5 GHz / 3.1 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$192	TBC
Core i5-6400T	14nm	4/4	2.2 GHz / 2.8 GHz	6 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$182	TBC
Core i3-6300T	14nm	2/4	3.3 GHz / N/A	4 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$138	TBC
Core i3-6100T	14nm	2/4	3.2 GHz / N/A	4 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	35W	$117	TBC
Pentium G4520	14nm	2/2	3.6 GHz / N/A	3 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$93	TBC
Pentium G4500	14nm	2/2	3.5 GHz / N/A	3 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$84	TBC
Pentium G4400	14nm	2/2	3.4 GHz / N/A	3 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$64	TBC
Pentium G4500T	14nm	2/2	3.0 GHz / N/A	3 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$84	TBC
Pentium G4400T	14nm	2/2	2.9 GHz / N/A	3 MB	DDR4 2133 MHz	47W	$60	TBC

*Table courtesy of WCCF Tech. Local pricing sourced from Wootware.co.za.

Prices of the Skylake range revealed thus far seem to be around what we expected.

CPUs like the i5-6400 should probably be quite a bit cheaper for it to become a realistic purchase. At the moment, it’s 500 MHz slower than the next CPU up, the i5-6500, but only R80 cheaper – that’s a hard sell.

When you consider how efficient Skylake micro-architecture is, 5.8 MHz per Rand is an absolute steal.