Why is E8400/E8600 still expensive?

[MeddlE]

You'll get an easy 3.6GHz just by bumping the voltage to 1.3 and setting the FSB to 400. Especially with that motherboard.

 

[Phil2008]

Heres mine after being stressed for 30mins or so, the latest verson of cpuz reports the voltage totally wrong as in the bios its set at 1.3350v. Ah yeah Ive got stuck temps to, as it never goes below 40c.

 

[Phil2008]

Thats better, running a earlier version of cpu z and now voltage is back on track

 

[angela]

E6600 in ocuk members market seem to go for around £35 or even less. However I managed to sell my brother's E6600 (4 years old cpu) for £50 on the ebay and it was bought by a guy from an IT company . Nice chap though. Gave me +ve feedback 5-6 weeks after the transaction .

On Ebay the prices are crazy. You can find very low to very high prices for the same item.

exactly, about 3 months ago I missed auction ONLY £65 for E8500/RAM/MOTHERBOARD bundle.

 

[stylus pilot]

Yeh it's like the old socket 939 dual cores. Had a quick look on the bay just and there's a 4800X2 being auctioned on there for £129 (inc delivery costs), 11 bids and there's still 4 days left!

This is the best news I've heard all week! - I have a 4800+ ready for auction.

I think the key to maximising the price is to allow postage to Europe as I've had quite a few parts go for reasonable prices there before.

The thing is - I know when I come to sell my beloved Opteron 165 (running at 3.00GHz - 67% overclock ) that few people will know it's relative value (in terms of much better OC potential than the 4800+ etc chips). Obviously I'll advertise it accordingly, but I bet most people would just see the stock clocks are low/ignore it after seeing 'Opteron' and move on. Ahh well - at least I paid a great price for it in the first place.

 

[jak731]

Not too shabby for a C0 stepping on air, bought this 2 and half years ago now for £87 on the MM, got the ip35 pro for £35 Still running solid at 4GHz, I do sometimes get the upgrade itch but I'm a poor student.

Great processors.

 

[angela]

^^ can you post your bios setting? Thank You

 

[Scougar]

Most chips are more expensive 2nd hand than they used to be. Two things can cause this.

1) Socket 775 are EOL and could be that getting them new is getting harder, so prices go up.

or/and

2) Pound to Dollar to pound is bad at the moment so 'new' prices are much higher, meaning that as such, 2nd hand prices are higher in general.

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I noticed that Q6600's prices had dropped a lot a few months ago, then gone back up by £20-30, as had the E8xxx series stuff. Just the way it works, nothing you can do about market forces.

 

[EniGmA1981]

Here's my best overclock from my E8400

I got a POST screen photo @ 4.50GHz but it wouldn't get into windows no matter what I tried lol and that was with a BIOS voltage of 1.6v

 

[Angst]

Core 2 where/are amazing chips, before i swapped out for quad core I could run super pi at 4.5ghz 1.5v on my E7300.

 

[Devrij]

Here's my best overclock from my E8400

I got a POST screen photo @ 4.50GHz but it wouldn't get into windows no matter what I tried lol and that was with a BIOS voltage of 1.6v

Something like this?

 

[Brumboy]

I've seen the E8600 on sale on another site for £225..no idea why it's so expensive, you can get an i7 for that price or a i5 2500k..

 

[EniGmA1981]

Something like this?

Yeah, a little bit like that lol... Show off

*runs off to boot at 4.6*

 

[j.col]

ignore

 

[j.col]

Here's my best overclock from my E8400

I got a POST screen photo @ 4.50GHz but it wouldn't get into windows no matter what I tried lol and that was with a BIOS voltage of 1.6v

nice, my Q6600 can only do 1m superpi in 17 seconds

what is that temp monitoring gadget you using?

 

[Phil2008]

This is my super pi score and Im at 3.8

 

[EniGmA1981]

what is that temp monitoring gadget you using?

That's the gadget that's built into Open Hardware Monitor (www.openhardwaremonitor.org), it's like HWMonitor, but better

Only downfall is that you have to name and select each sensor that you want the gadget to display, upside is that you only have to do that once lol

 

[SFFNoob]

I'm still using my E8400, will probably do so until Ivy.

 

[Azuse05]

I'm pretty sure I paid around £120 for my e8400 over 2 years ago

£122 launch week , best bargain I ever got. They jacked the price up to £155 after 5 days because of manufacturing problems, and it's never dropped back down since which isn't surprising really, all things considered.

The problem intel has is self created really. They've built their business model on forcing people to upgrade motherboards with cpus (unlike amd). Unfortunately cpus are now far more powerful than software needs, and gpu acceleration means even less cpu is needed hence there are so many e8400 and q6600s still going strong, probably for the rest of the year.

Basically, intel built such good cpus, that there's been no software need for upgrade, as the i5/i7 demonstrated. This year we get a whole selection of locked chips, in an attempt to boost their sales of increased margin k series chips. If the core2 chips weren't so damn good, it might have worked

 

[Reza86]

I love my e8400, its still solid to this day and it will soon be coming up for 3 years old. Easily hits 4ghz. Best buy ever.