Why has X58 held it's value so well?

mushtafa · 10 Oct 2013 at 22:23

I've been thinking about possibly upgrading my mobo and CPU. I've been watching a few bits on the bay to gauge a vague valuation of my parts, and it seems the X58 stuff is still worth fair money considering the age of it.
Why is this? Surely it can't compare to more modern chipsets? Any ideas/thoughts?

Kotu · 10 Oct 2013 at 23:08

none of the stuff after x58 really offers an upgrade for normal users, it just comes down to supply and demand, there is no supply as the stuff is not made anymore, but there is still a demand as the parts are needed to keep old x58 systems going. There are probably quite a lot of people still using x58 and core2quad type systems.

smilertoo · 10 Oct 2013 at 23:30

x58 was the forerunner for the x79 enthusiast system, so they're generally still quite fast if you got quad core.

Hakanese · 10 Oct 2013 at 23:53

Add to fact people are loathe to bin their back in the day high end premium processors and have to outlay the cash for a new top end setup.
My mate's x58 blew up a few months back and he's been trying to get a new board ever since.

wazza300 · 11 Oct 2013 at 00:11

You can pickup cheap z68/sb parts now,x58 is good but there are better out there for similar or not much more money imo,the Cons with x58 are temps/mb squeal and lack of true sata3 plus an igpu comes in handy sometimes

Roughneck · 11 Oct 2013 at 01:05

I still have and running a Asus Sabertooth x58 with a i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition Hex core cpu with a Nvidia 680, I see no reason to upgrade, bought it coming up for 3 years ago i seem to remember the cpu was well over £700 its lasted me well, the only things ive upgraded were to add a SSD and the 680.

paradigm · 11 Oct 2013 at 07:45

wazza300 said:
You can pickup cheap z68/sb parts now,x58 is good but there are better out there for similar or not much more money imo,the Cons with x58 are temps/mb squeal and lack of true sata3 plus an igpu comes in handy sometimes

Plus points are that it has tri-channel RAM, and as a result, more RAM slots. My X58 system has 24GB of RAM, and my X79 system has 32GB RAM. Quite useful when you are running a virtualization lab across them.

iGPU isn't a plus side for a lot of people, I can't even think of a time in the last 3 years when I'd have benefited, other than seeing a higher artificial number in 3DMark's CPU tests.

To that end though, I wouldn't say it's held it's value that well. Only last month I sold a bundle of Asus P6T SE, i7 920 D0, and 12GB of Patriot DDR3 for £120.