Why have certain CPUs increased in price?

Supernaut91 · 4 Jul 2016 at 10:19

What is the exact justification for this?
Especially the flagship Broadwell-e series price increase.

Are they selling like hot cakes?

d_brennen · 4 Jul 2016 at 10:20

What else can you buy?

Hagar · 4 Jul 2016 at 10:21

Exchange rate?

Artery · 4 Jul 2016 at 10:22

Maybe the same reason GPUs are going up in price?

Borealis · 4 Jul 2016 at 10:24

It's the same reason most things are going up in price. It's pretty much down to the exchange rates. Intel sell them in dollars, so if the pound is weaker, the price goes up.

Supernaut91 · 4 Jul 2016 at 11:52

Borealis said:
It's the same reason most things are going up in price. It's pretty much down to the exchange rates. Intel sell them in dollars, so if the pound is weaker, the price goes up.

Cheers, seems best to hold off then for the time being. OEM 6850Ks were 509.99 last week.

Emlyn_Dewar · 4 Jul 2016 at 12:27

Brexit 'innit?

chippy08 · 4 Jul 2016 at 12:34

Exchange rate i suppose and perhaps greed thats why i canceled my new build

foster grant · 4 Jul 2016 at 13:17

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Brexit 'innit?

Innit though

Loke · 4 Jul 2016 at 14:21

Holding off till exchange rate improves is a fool's game. The market will move the way it moves, if you need something it's best to buy it today rather than to try pre-empt the market. The number of times people have done that only to find it get even worse...

joeyjojo · 4 Jul 2016 at 15:30

Loke said:
Holding off till exchange rate improves is a fool's game. The market will move the way it moves, if you need something it's best to buy it today rather than to try pre-empt the market. The number of times people have done that only to find it get even worse...

This. We're not going back to the $1.50 of last month (let alone the $1.57-$1.72 of a year or two ago) any time soon.

Might as well forget last month's prices even existed.

AiiR · 4 Jul 2016 at 17:15

Even if exchange rates do get better, businesses will never reduce them so quickly if they're still making sales. The price is what it is, if it is putting you off then you should seek an alternative or think about whether you really need it.

koolpc · 4 Jul 2016 at 17:17

Someone is overclocking the price!

abui1806 · 4 Jul 2016 at 17:33

because of the vote

Andrei23 · 10 Jul 2016 at 20:53

Make Britain great again innit?

Nasher · 10 Jul 2016 at 21:24

Brexit hysteria. Even though nothing has actually changed yet and won't for at least 2 years.

beany_bot · 11 Jul 2016 at 09:41

Nasher said:
Brexit hysteria. Even though nothing has actually changed yet and won't for at least 2 years.

It's not "hysteria".
It's uncertainty.

Precisely why it will only get worse for the next two years....

We need to be either IN or OUT of Europe very quickly. Dragging it out will only weaken the pound. I don't even care which way it is anymore. I just want a resolution. That way the pound can recover.

chaparral · 12 Jul 2016 at 20:30

Supernaut91 said:
Especially the flagship Broadwell-e series price increase.

Are they selling like hot cakes?

I don't if there selling like hot cakes...

But I hear they ran hot enough to cook some cakes....

and the more you overclock them the faster they cook..

ukxenon · 13 Jul 2016 at 11:53

Brexit did a lot of damage to exchange rate

chippy08 · 13 Jul 2016 at 12:46

Motherboards have shot up as well the one i want has gone up by £10 with all the price rises my build has gone up by nearly £60 so have put it off now until prices come back down even if its a year or more.