Intel's Core i7-8086K Giveaway Kicks off Tonight at 8pm ET (Midnight UTC)
by Ryan Smith on June 7, 2018 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
- Core i7
- Coffee Lake
- i7-8086K
Alongside the announcement of their new x86 anniversary-themed hex-core processor, the Core i7-8086K, Intel also announced that they would be giving a significant portion of their inventory away as part of a massive, globe-crossing giveaway. In total, Intel is producing just 50,000 units of the specially binned Coffee Lake CPU. And of those, 8,086 – or about 16% – are slated to be given away starting tonight.
| Intel 8th Generation 'Coffee Lake' Core i7 Desktop Processors | ||||
| i7-8086K | i7-8700K | i7-8700 | i7-8700T | |
| Cores | 6C / 12T | |||
| Base Frequency | 4.0 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 3.2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost 2.0 (Single Core) |
5.0 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 4.6 GHz | 4.0 GHz |
| L3 Cache | 12 MB | |||
| DRAM Support | DDR4-2666 | |||
| Integrated Graphics | GT2: 24 EUs | |||
| IGP Turbo | 1.20 GHz | |||
| PCIe Lanes (CPU) | 16 | |||
| TDP | 95 W | 95 W | 65 W | 35 W |
| Price (tray) | $425? | $359 | $303 | $303 |
At 8pm Eastern (midnight UTC), Intel will be running a series of national 24 hour sweepstakes for the processors. Besides being notable for the sheer number of processors being given away – I simply cannot recall the last time any single event gave away 4-digits' worth of CPUs – an interesting quirk of Intel’s giveaway is that they are allocating a fixed number of CPUs in each sweepstakes nation. For the US this means 2,086 processors, another 2,000 for China, etc. Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries are also part of the giveaways. So while the giveaway crosses parts of the globe, the odds in any given nation are still decent, especially for places like Canada and Taiwan.
| Intel Core i7-8086K Giveaway Regions | |
| Country/Region | Number of Winners and Prizes Awarded |
| United States | 2,086 |
| Mainland China | 2,000 |
| Germany | 1,000 |
| Canada | 500 |
| France | 500 |
| The United Kingdom | 500 |
| South Korea | 500 |
| Taiwan | 500 |
| Japan | 500 |
Note that this is a 24 hour giveaway; Intel is moving fast here and will be drawing winners next Monday. So for a shot at winning a CPU that, while lacking an official price, Intel is valuing at $425, there’s a relatively short window to enter. Otherwise this leaves 41,914 processors to be split between retail and OEMs, and while the $400+ price tag makes it decidedly un-cheap, I don’t imagine that Intel is going to have much trouble selling all of them.
Source: Intel
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eastcoast_pete - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
The apparent reason why some countries are absent from this list is that, even (for example), in the EU, giveaways are treated differently by a nation's law. That why, in Canada, you have to solve some kind of math challenge, so it's technically not just a lottery. In other countries, you can't hold a drawing for a giveaway without getting licensed to do so. Isn't the legal system fun?7upEXE - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
Wtf. Look at #10 for sweepstakes details. https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/I understand sharing the winners names, maybe faces, but only for the purpose of proof of sweepstakes winners. That paragraph essentially gives them the right to use your name/face/voice/anything you provide them to promote their products *at any time* without permission or compensation.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
That's actually rather standard for sweepstakes. It allows them to show the rest of the world who won.olafgarten - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
"potential winners who are Canadian residents must correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question as posed by Sponsor."Canadians have to pass a sanity check.
eastcoast_pete - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
Not sure about the sanity part. I've known some math wizzes who were pretty excentric , to say it mildly.ByteMyAscii - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
And I would be "that guy" that puts this in a B360 board with 8GB of RAM because that's all I could afford.Lord of the Bored - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link
Me too.Mumrik - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link
Not all that global. It is:USA, Germany, France, Canada (excluding Quebec), the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Mainland China and Taiwan.
danwat1234 - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link
Well, I bought one on Amazon before it sells out. Watched bestbuy sellout. Wonder what the resell value will be a while from now... Low risk investment at the least!koaschten - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link
yeah sure ... https://siliconlottery.com/collections/coffeelake/... resale value 419€ I guess ;)