core 2 duo pricing

[cyclopopcicle]

hi
just looking at the price of core 2s and noticed that the lower clocked CPUs are priced higher than the higher clocked CPUs why?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-157-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £104.99
£123.36 inc VAT

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-128-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £122.99
£144.51 inc VAT

cheers cyc

 

[Azza]

E6750 are newer than E6600.

Intel brought out a range of E6x50 CPUs based on the G0 revision.

These came out with lower prices, they replaced the E6x00 CPUs.


Prices of the E6x00 CPUs are not lower than what they are because if they where lower then shops would either lose money or not make hardly any money at all.

 

[cyclopopcicle]

but it doesn't make sense to have a lesser product for more money, it makes it look like the more expensive chip is a better performer.

 

[nightmare99]

You would now really only buy the E6600 if your board could not take the E6750 (which some wont).

 

[Azza]

but it doesn't make sense to have a lesser product for more money, it makes it look like the more expensive chip is a better performer.

No it doesnt make sense, but the E6750 came out after the E6600 along with a load of other CPUs... E6550 and E6850 designed to phase out the E6600, E6700 etc. They came with a whole new pricing stucture aswell.


But because there is all this stock left over of E6600 CPUs etc the prices have to stay the same as to when they bought in the stock. If shops like OcUK droped the price of the E6600 to below £100-£110 to get below the E6750 then they would be making hardly any maybe no profit at all. Possibly even a lose.

 

[GarethDW]

So instead the chips sit on the shelves and don't earn OcUK any money at all - in fact they then cost OcUK even more than if they sold them for a small loss.

 

[nightmare99]

Possibly even a lose.

Yes E6600 is still available from Intel and the cost is over £115.

 

[Tooks]

Intel sometimes offer retailers a rebate on the old stock they are holding so that it can be shifted at a more competitive price, but not all the time.

Otherwise it's down to retailers to decide if they want to take a hit by selling them at a loss.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

Most companies that buy in large quantities will get pricing support and protection. But there are also a lot of ppl out there that boards will not run the E6x50 range so the price stays the same. The manufacturing process on the E6x50 range is also a lot more cost effective...

 

[Lightnix]

It's all because Intel discontinued them in favour of the new 1333Mhz FSB chips. The E6600's that you see now are back stock that never got sold cheaply and never will be cheap until retailers decide to sell them as clearance. There is still a small market for these chips, very small, where people's motherboards only take the original 1066Mhz FSB Core 2s, P4's and PD's., say the motherboard vendor may not have released a BIOS for the Allendale core CPUs or later Conroes. And of course your average person who may have read a really old forum post where everyone was like, 'The E6600 rocks!'

Chances are the same sort've thing will happen with the Penryn core CPUs, they're releasing higher performance parts for the same price as the older CPUs (say for example the E8400 is 3Ghz, but is set to take the same price point as the E6750 (clocks at 2.6Ghz)).