It's absolutely retarded to mount the fans outside of the case.

unless you shroud the fans

Newegg raised the prices on Core i5 and i7 Skylake

Yea, The prices for skylake have been bouncing all over the place since they were initially released.

420 bucks. What the hell.

The reason...

1. Supposedly, low yield issues.
2. Thin pcb, some large air coolers can break them.

Their yields aren't that low.
Its just everyone is trying to buy them atm.


Also; I HIGHLY doubt coolers are breaking the cpu, As they dont mount to the cpu but to the mounting brackets.

I have however seen people breaking them left/right trying to delid with a vice/Hammer/etc. because of t he PCB on skylake being roughly 40% thinner.

There's many articles, this is just one...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/218918-thinner-intel-skylake-cpus-are-breaking-because-of-third-party-cpu-coolers

Oh that...

It's prebuilt Pc's with skylake, Breaking in shipping because of larger coolers. Not really new, Although it does happen more with skylake.

I will wait for Skylake revision 2 and lower prices.