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Why is E8400/E8600 still expensive?

EniGmA1981 said:
That's the gadget that's built into Open Hardware Monitor (www.openhardwaremonitor.org), it's like HWMonitor, but better :D

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
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I liked the look of this so I just downloaded it and activated the widget and all it says is 'Add a sensor...' but how do you do this as clicking does nothing?

EDIT: Nm, just worked it out =o)
 
Another long term e8400 user, got mine at 3.6GHz on 1.3v. Used to run it at 3.96 but downclocked it recently, haven't really noticed any difference other than lower temps at load. Tops out at 57deg.

Was tempted by SB but glad I didn't, would happily take a quad775 chip as an upgrade though but prices are still ridiculous.
 
MeddlE said:
Was tempted by SB but glad I didn't, would happily take a quad775 chip as an upgrade though but prices are still ridiculous.
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Ofc they are. If you wanted to upgrade then keeping the core2 prices high would mean you'd be far more likely to move to a sandy meaning you' by a cpu and a motherboard.
 
coldfused said:
I was thinking of upgrading from my E8400 to Sandybridge, but perhaps leaving it till Ivy Bridge is released. The only labor intensive task my PC does is gaming.

I've noticed that prices for these Core 2 Duo chips are still expensive. I'm sure you could get the first generation i5 processors for the same amount. In fact the E8400 costs more than I bought it for last year. Does anyone know why this is?
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getting overclocking that 8400 :D
 
richb93 said:
That's crazy! :eek::eek: You could pick up a Q6600, DDR3 RAM and a mobo for that price!
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But if you've got couple operating systems, plenty of working servers like Apache, mySQL, ftp - all with groups and users, GRUB2 configured properly and dozens of settings - it's not worth to change the whole platform due to couple of days spent on installations and configurations only. It's better to pay more, but just swap CPU to faster one, that's it :)
 
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