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What's up with CPU prices?

Dancer

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No reduction in price for a long time now and if anything they've gone slightly up lately? I've been looking mostly at the i5 range (focusing on 3570k), but is this a general trend. It seems to apply equally to newer and older chipsets. What is the cause? Is it a lack of competition from AMD, insufficient production compared to demands, or something else? Why isn't this big news (or am I just not seeing it) and the really big question - when do you think we might start seeing a price reduction?
 
Lack of competition is probably the main reason. If AMD's £120 CPUs had the same kind of power as the 3570k, they probably would put the price down, but because they aren't really comparable at stock speeds, there isn't a need for Intel to drop prices. It is also supply and demand i'd imagine, as Intel CPUs are more popular here at OcUK.
 
No chance of Intel droping prices. not while everyone thinks they are the only option.
 
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Well a friend bought i5-3570K when it first released around £150 (some sort of special deal) and when I bought mine back in January it was £140 (ex. VAT and I think part of the overclockers weekly discount) with sandybridge models just as expensive (or worse). I was surprised to see it it is (still) selling for £150.

Some of the above are from memory, but it shows that there has been no price reduction since launch of ivybridge, and more surprisingly no reduction for sandybridge either.

I've used a lot of AMD processors and still use them. Never had a complaint and they've performed well. However, after I started doing comparisons of video decoding and encoding in various HD formats at work I quickly learned that i5s and i7s outclass anything AMD has. I hope this changes, but until it does I'll use AMD for value systems and Intel for everything else.
 
I am waiting for Haswell to come out before I get 3570k's to replace my little i3's.

Not because the price will massively drop, because a ton of people will be selling second hand ones for the new chips ;)
 
1155 will be like 775, the fastest chips for the socket will now hold their value well IMO, as over time, people that took the bang for buck approach will avoid whole system overhauls by doing what they always were going to do and sticking the fastest chip they can in when people migrate to other platforms and sell them off, there are only so many top end chips to go round though... And demand will be high IMHO
 
because its true :rolleyes:

intel dont need to drop price of a i3570k because it beats what it needs to which is basically all amd cpus most of the time.

it wont drop much until the next revision is out haswell then it will be eol and probably go up.

i3570k is the gamers chip of now just like the i2500k was. so they aint going no where price wise.
 
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