My old processor is now more expensive than when I bought it! How?

[vanGenne]

Hello all,

I was looking around to see if I could improve my specs, when I saw that my current CPU (I5-4670K) is now more expensive than when I first bought it. In January 2014 I paid exactly €192,20 for it, while if I want to purchase it now it is €264,00.

Same store, same processor, about a 40% increase in price.

I might be missing something here, but aren't older parts supposed to become cheaper over time? Did they stop producing this particular model?

Cheers!

 

[captaincharisma]

it depends on the place you buy it and sense intel stopped making them they could still be in high demand.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I guess to help insure you buy there new stuff ? look ay gpu's as well a 900 card still cost as much or more then they did over the newer 10series ??

on point underselling the latest items that they need to recoup there investments .. they don't lose money for any reason but you can afford there prices if you in need of it

kinda all ways been this way

 

[rgd1101]

also the brexit thing.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I think it comes down to NVidia - intel - Microsoft well known business practices [lol ] all for there greed and gain

 

[synphul]

A lot of it is due to availability. Intel stops producing the cpu, supply is limited and prices rise. Pretty common for intel, the new chips come out at a slight premium then prices even out similar to what the previous cpu was selling for. Often times sales will be on the most recent model and make it cheaper than the previous. For awhile the previous gen and current gen are priced similarly, once a cpu become 3 releases old or more prices start to rise rather than decrease.

This is going by u.s. prices so shouldn't have anything to do with brexit. The 6600k is now $230, it was closer to $250-260 when it first came out. The previous 4690k was around $235, dropped to around $220 give or take for the longest time. Now it's at $236. The 4670k is listing at $255.90. Some places are selling the i5 2500 for $281.

The outrageously priced 4670k is being sold via a 3rd party calling themselves "Hard2FindParts" on amazon, it's not through a traditional etailer like ncix, newegg, b&h photo, microcenter etc. Those places are selling the newer chips and not the older ones. It has nothing to do with conspiracy theories of greed on the part of intel, they have an msrp and they sell at a wholesale price. If xyz retailer wants to sell it for $300 or $600 that's on them. Intel has nothing to do with that.

According to intel's ark page for the 4670k it's reached end of life so I'd assume they're no longer in production. They released back in 2013 and since then they've put out the replacement devil's canyon 4690k, the broadwell i5 5675c, the skylake 6600k and are soon to be releasing the 7600k kaby lake.

 

[junkeymonkey]

recall like the higher end 700 cards never dropped price they were just pulled from the market to make 970 cards out of them / there parts

 

[vanGenne]

Interesting to read your comments, thanks for the replies!

I'm from the Netherlands, so I can't rule our Brexit completely. However, since Intel produces their stuff in the U.S. the fact that the English have left the EU should not have to affect U.S. > NL trade relations. The site I got the prices from is known for being the cheapest among competitors, and other retailers show even higher prices for this particular model.

I was unaware of the Intel Ark page, thanks for that tip. It seems that their recommended retail price is close to what it's being marketed for in my country. I agree with synphul, the fact that it's declared as 'end of life' probably means that it's out of production, which can explain the price markup.
At any rate, it might be time to start thinking about a replacement. For now I've settled at overclocking it slightly (which I wasn't doing before) to get the most out of it.

Thanks for helping me soothe my curiosity everyone!

 

[junkeymonkey]

I cant see where that 4670k should be hurting you? I use a 4670 non k and cant se any reason to replace it any time soon?? heck lot of guys still on older sandybridge running them strong today

like they say about intel and the ''tick-tock'' road map the gain increments are modest at best

you would see a nice gain from sandy to skylake but haswell to sandy not so much , why you see a lot of older intel platforms still in use today . like my haswell unless it just dies I don't see any reason to upgrade and how things are today its now upgrading hurts me far more then it helps . like lack of support you loose on todays stuff that was still supported before .

good luck

 

[vanGenne]

Oh I was just noticing some small lags when gaming, saw that CPU load was at 100 nothing substantial though. I've already checked some benchmarks since posting and saw that upgrading to skylake is really only about 5-10% faster. So I'll be keeping my CPU for a while after all

 

[junkeymonkey]

to be honest skylake don't impress me at all any way it maybe worth to wait and see what platform comes next skylake remind me too much of old 775 as a cross over platform [775 was a ddr2/ ddr3 skylake ddr3/ddr4 ] I do think the next platform will be more solid / stable [opinion]

heck look at z170 boards bios pages and how many bios updates they got all ready [ wow] a lot . like how unstable are they to start with ???

what game is banging that cpu 100% to start with ?? I would think something else was going on with that

looking here maybe just poorly optimized games

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3221247/4670k-3ghz-pinned-100-usage-battlefield-gta.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3145480/4670k-100-usage-gaming.html

may not matter what CPU you use there going to eat them up anyway it seems

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/57d7f3/bf1_is_100_cpu_usage_normal_for_a_6600k/#bottom-comments

http://windowsreport.com/battlefield-1-high-i5-cpu-usage/