I7 Price increases.... reasoning?

reilly · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:31

I have been looking around and noticed that I7 930 and 950 prices have increase, especially the 950 by quiet a lot in my book. (Offer the other week at £211 on daily special I think now £252)

A close competitor has the 950 onsale at nearly the same as OCUK so they are not taking your money at gun point

I know OCUK and other have to make a profit, is the price increase due to limited chips or just a new batch of stock has been purchased and the price wasn't as good?

Also are all the i3/i5/i7 all increasing in price or set to?

If chips are limited does this mean Sandy Bridge is close as intel have started mass production. Maybe the mainstream chips are going to better than expected?

Cheers fellow nerds

bifday2k · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:36

Supply and demand really, gibbo mentioned in another thread that a few parts are getting harder to source at decent prices, the I7's where one of them.

Liampope · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:43

Straight from the horse's mouth...

Gibbo said:
Hi there

The 768MB is becoming harder to get, prices are increasing due to supply and demand and as such prices have gone up again this morning, until we can source a large volume at a low price this is what unfortunately happens. Prices don't always go down, they quite often go up, the I7 950 is another example of this.

Wynthorpe · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:48

Glas i got a 950 when they were £211 the other week then, even though ive RMA'd it haha.

kedge · 14 Oct 2010 at 17:37

Wynthorpe said:
Glas i got a 950 when they were £211 the other week then, even though ive RMA'd it haha.

If you don't mind me asking, why did you have to RMA the i7 950 ?.

Wynthorpe · 14 Oct 2010 at 21:07

kedge said:
If you don't mind me asking, why did you have to RMA the i7 950 ?.

Here you go Kedge, started a topic about it last week! Had to RMA the CPU, Motherboard and Memory.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18194168

Snapples24 · 14 Oct 2010 at 22:05

I would have thought they would start dropping due to the new Sandy Bridge Architecture. Maybe at the beginning of next year we can look forward to more affordable i7 chips.

rchads89 · 14 Oct 2010 at 23:47

Stuff goes up and down all the time, Buy something 1 week it will of dropped in price £20 then week after it will be £10 more than what you paid.

Christmas is also fast approaching prices will raise so treat yourself now thats what i say!

pastymuncher · 15 Oct 2010 at 09:31

Snapples24 said:
I would have thought they would start dropping due to the new Sandy Bridge Architecture. Maybe at the beginning of next year we can look forward to more affordable i7 chips.

It is'nt going to happen i am afraid. Socket 1366 is'nt going to be replaced until Q3 next year so prices will remain high and may even go up towards the end.

mothermachine · 15 Oct 2010 at 09:52

Just look at the price of a QX9650... 3 years old now and way way slower than the equivalent i7 yet more expensive! Insane....

QX9650 - £770
i7 970 - £654

I'm running one workstation with a QX9650 and one with an i7 970 and the 970 is easily twice as fast as the QX9650 at rendering (which is probably the truest test of raw CPU speed). Why the QX9650 is more expensive I have no idea. It's annoying as I'd like to replace my Q9640 machines with QX9650 processors to give them a good boost but it's just financially impossible.

3 years old these processors!

reilly · 15 Oct 2010 at 12:06

mothermachine said:
Just look at the price of a QX9650... 3 years old now and way way slower than the equivalent i7 yet more expensive! Insane....

QX9650 - £770
i7 970 - £654

I suppose that intel are trying to out price the old tech even though it is still very capable, so people will adopt the new tech so they can reduce support and make the old tech redundant

shadow_boxer · 15 Oct 2010 at 12:21

Can only see things worsening in the run up to Christmas and the inevitable rush before VAT increases...bad times!

Wynthorpe · 15 Oct 2010 at 12:24

shadow_boxer said:
Can only see things worsening in the run up to Christmas and the inevitable rush before VAT increases...bad times!

VAT increases?! Think i keep my head in the sand when it comes to politics lol.

psychas · 15 Oct 2010 at 12:25

u can get qx9650 at around 250 £ or so as they worst clockers then q9650

nick_000000 · 15 Oct 2010 at 14:24

Those are extreme Intel chips though and Intel will always sell them at a premium even if they are old tech. Extreme chips are fully unlocked and Intel are always going to charge more for X**** parts over mainstream products.

jakesnake · 15 Oct 2010 at 14:28

ye i noticed the 950 has went up to £250 lol. i pulled the trigger at a decent time getting it for £214

only seen it better once at £211

reilly · 15 Oct 2010 at 14:46

jakesnake said:
ye i noticed the 950 has went up to £250 lol. i pulled the trigger at a decent time getting it for £214 only seen it better once at £211

Lol I think I was hoping for a little too much..... was going to hit buy at the magic £199, but that isn't happening.

I knew I should have got one of those I7 920's when they were at £180 when they were been replaced by the I7 930.

kapows · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:10

lolo damn i7's are gonna go sky hi now grrr

Devrij · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:44

Probs going up so they can come down more at xmas. I know that's how most big companies do it.

tommytinkle · 17 Oct 2010 at 20:12

Hi,

I wondered why the upgrade that I spec'd up was now a damn sight more expensive! Shame as the i7 for the price it was, was a damn good purchase price!