Whole Rig Gone Up In Price in under 2 years

Frank_Rizzo · 27 Sep 2017 at 20:46

Going for a Coffee Lake purchase next month so I was looking to see how much this current 6700K rig has depreciated. It seems it has not at all. The CPU, RAM, SSDs, Motherboard have all gone up in price since January 2016.

I can understand RAM prices often go up in peaks, and wasn't there a flood that caused a run on hard disks a few years ago? But why would CPUs that are not just one but two generations old hold up in price?

The 6700K was purchased in Jan 2016 for £295. It's now on sale for £350. How can this happen when since then there has been Skylake-X, Kaby Lake, Ryzen and Coffee Lake is due next week.

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Item                          Then   Today
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6700K                         £295    £350
GA-Z170XP-SLI                  £99    £104 (cheapest Z170)
950 PRO 256GB                 £148    £170 (EOL)
850 Evo 250GB                  £67     £87
LPX 8GB 3000MHz C15            £48     £86
-------------------------------------------
Totals                        £657    £797

This is just crazy. Prices are supposed to depreciate not appreciate. I don't think I have ever seen anything like this in 30 years.

BaroUK2 · 27 Sep 2017 at 21:02

Typical case if someone needs to replace a cpu from that generation or the motherboard only, same stuff for even older sockets or cpus... They are not produced anymore and sold at higher mark up.

mistersprinkles · 28 Sep 2017 at 05:19

This can be explained by the pound tanking like a fish with a rock tied to it since Brexit...
Blame the stupid politicians and the stupid people who voted for stupid Brexit

We Used to be able to get i7's for $320 here in Canada years ago. Then the dollar went to hell and now they are almost $500.

Here is an informative graphic

https://encrypted.google.com/financ...hs=268x94&chsc=1.25&ei=lXjMWYqTBsvsmAGJwrrwBA

The pound peaked in 2016 and is now at extremely low levels, hence the prices.

lude1962 · 28 Sep 2017 at 10:28

mistersprinkles said:
This can be explained by the pound tanking like a fish with a rock tied to it since Brexit...
Blame the stupid politicians and the stupid people who voted for stupid Brexit

We Used to be able to get i7's for $320 here in Canada years ago. Then the dollar went to hell and now they are almost $500.

Canada's economy obviously tanked, hence your i7's have increased by over 50%, while the 'stupid brexit UK' only increased by 18% (using OP's figures), given these figures whats Canada's excuse.

The 6700k is still the latest chip, why would a new product depreciate on price.
Intels recommended price based on 1000 units purchased , price per chip,

Recommended Customer Price $339.00 - $350.00, though this isn't really a good indicator without knowing the unit price as sold by Intel.

Difference in price will be due to many factors, retailers price paid and exchange rate at time of purchase, quantity bought.
Increase in retailer margins due to increasing overheads will also push the price up.

mistersprinkles · 28 Sep 2017 at 12:53

6700K is not the latest chip.

StarShock · 28 Sep 2017 at 13:21

intel tend to not drop their prices, as they don't want older products to cannibalize the sales of the newest stuff. As for most of the rest the memory shortage is driving prices up almost across the board. Combined with the pound being weaker than it was early last year, its not all that surprising. on a plus side it means the 2nd hand market is strong.

ZXSpectrum · 28 Sep 2017 at 13:31

mistersprinkles said:
This can be explained by the pound tanking like a fish with a rock tied to it since Brexit...
Blame the stupid politicians and the stupid people who voted for stupid Brexit

We Used to be able to get i7's for $320 here in Canada years ago. Then the dollar went to hell and now they are almost $500.

Here is an informative graphic

https://encrypted.google.com/financ...hs=268x94&chsc=1.25&ei=lXjMWYqTBsvsmAGJwrrwBA

The pound peaked in 2016 and is now at extremely low levels, hence the prices.

Yeah people who voted for Brexit are stupid... Says the person that doesn't live in the UK and can offer an opinion on a matter that has very little effect on them.. Hummmmm....

mistersprinkles · 28 Sep 2017 at 20:44

ZXSpectrum said:
Yeah people who voted for Brexit are stupid... Says the person that doesn't live in the UK and can offer an opinion on a matter that has very little effect on them.. Hummmmm....

I have opinions on lots of things that don't affect me.

Already Brexit is having bad effects- look at the state of your currency. Just sayin. No offense intended. As a Canadian, I know the pain of having a currency that is in the crapper 90% of the time. You don't want to be like us. The Brits usually benefit from an exchange rate internationally that is greatly in their favour. I don't want you guys to lose that.

spoffle · 28 Sep 2017 at 20:47

OCUK prices aren't always the best either. The 6700k and 7700k here are pretty expensive compared to other places.

ZXSpectrum · 29 Sep 2017 at 11:11

mistersprinkles said:
I have opinions on lots of things that don't affect me.
Already Brexit is having bad effects- look at the state of your currency. Just sayin. No offense intended. As a Canadian, I know the pain of having a currency that is in the crapper 90% of the time. You don't want to be like us. The Brits usually benefit from an exchange rate internationally that is greatly in their favour. I don't want you guys to lose that.

I would swap all of that and the rest of the crap that goes on in this country to live in Canada ey!

lude1962 · 29 Sep 2017 at 11:48

mistersprinkles said:
I have opinions on lots of things that don't affect me.
Already Brexit is having bad effects- look at the state of your currency. Just sayin. No offense intended. As a Canadian, I know the pain of having a currency that is in the crapper 90% of the time. You don't want to be like us. The British usually benefit from an exchange rate internationally that is greatly in their favour. I don't want you guys to lose that.

-fixed

ljt · 29 Sep 2017 at 16:32

Frank_Rizzo said:
The 6700K was purchased in Jan 2016 for £295. It's now on sale for £350. How can this happen when since then there has been Skylake-X, Kaby Lake, Ryzen and Coffee Lake is due next week.

This is just crazy. Prices are supposed to depreciate not appreciate. I don't think I have ever seen anything like this in 30 years.

Welcome to Brexit Britain.

Back in January 2016 our £ to $ rate was £1 = $1.46

The 6700k $ price is about $350 I believe so if you use 350/1.46 + 20% (VAT) it comes to about £290

However after the referendum our £/$ rate took a dive to £1 = $1.20

If you use the same calculation as above then 350/1.20 + 20% = £350

The £/$ as of now is about £1=$1.33 so the price of stock bought now @ $350 should work out about £315 inc VAT

Aneskimo · 30 Sep 2017 at 14:58

More to it than brexit (although it hasn’t helped). There is always something playing havoc in the component market a few years ago there was a fire in a factory that made ram and there was a shortage and also a hike in prices and now look at graphics cards, mining and shortage on memory has taken its toll on the current pricing and I also feel Intel don’t tend to just drop the price on older chips (edit: just seen someone put that above)