Pricing

[MooMoo444]

I don't understand the pricing on OcUK's processors so hoping someone could explain it to me,

An example is: Why is the E6750 2.66ghz more expensive than the E8200 2.66ghz when the wolfdale is faster and uses less power? Also has more cache?

So yeah, I'm confused

 

[puppetworx]

I'd like to add to your confusion - Why on earth has the Q6600 been dropping in price for months then Fudzilla announces Intel cutting tray prices for the Q6600 and the price shoots back up to ~£130. As far as I've seen cuts in tray prices don't materialise to retail cuts in UK prices for some time after.

I take it the E6750 is so expensive though because it's no longer in production. The retailer had to buy at a certain price and won't sell for a loss. People upgrading will still be buying that CPU if a - they have been misguided or b- they have a 65nm motherboard. The E8200 can be produced more cheaply due to it being 45nm based (therefore smaller chip size) though some of the extra space is taken by more cache also due to the large market for these processors dropping the price low at the retail side will increase sales. This is conjecture but I think I'm on the money.

Actually you can still find 2.8Ghz socket 478 Pentium 4's(single core) retailing for ~£50 and recently when looking to upgrade an old PC I found a thriving market for Athlon XP's (single core!)on ebay the highest frequency of which was selling consistantly for over £80 needless to say I didn't upgrade but built a new machine.

 

[platinum87]

i would guess they dont buy any more and they leave price high in hope they would sell the last bunch they have?

the best example of this was a 939 AMD 4400, which was £200 and a AM2 4400 which was £45


@ puppet, its because of the increase of the dollar over the pound

 

[deshepherd]

I'd like to add to your confusion - Why on earth has the Q6600 been dropping in price for months then Fudzilla announces Intel cutting tray prices for the Q6600 and the price shoots back up to ~£130. As far as I've seen cuts in tray prices don't materialise to retail cuts in UK prices for some time after.

possibly connected to the fact that 3 months ago £1 bought $2 whereas now it only gets $1.57 ... so while "tray prices" have been dropping these are all priced in dollars. As a result OcUK has to factor in a 20-25% rise in cost in pounds.

For example assume Q6600 was $200 3 months ago and since then has reduced to $180 (10% cut). Here this equates to £100 3 months ago and $114.65 today (14% increase) due to the plunge in the pound.

Of course there is the added factor that electronics has never followed the real exchange rate ... often using a $1=£1 rate ... but I think it should be apparent that there must be severe upwards pressure on prices in the UK. Think that's why I'm going to order my next upgrade in the next few days!

 

[puppetworx]

At last it makes sense to me! I really should have realised that as I've been planning on making a trip to the states while flights are reasonably cheap and noticed how poor the exchange rate is currently. I actually upgraded just last week, realised paying an extra £15-20 is worth it if you don't have to wait indefinitely, better to get 'em while they're hot.