Prices for old socket processors.

[refllect]

I have an ivy bridge i3 now. I want to upgrade to an i5 eventually, but I'm not sure when prices will be lowest. At a certain point their price will go up again since they get more and more rare right?

 

[USAFRet]

There is no 'certain point'. Supply and demand.

The price will bottom out. Exactly when that will be, and what it will be, no one can say.

 

[ur6beersaway]

You can always bid for one on E-bay. Deals can be had.

 

[refllect]

You can always bid for one on E-bay. Deals can be had.

Yeah there's a i5-3450s I can buy for $150 total. Debating about buying it now or waiting

 

[ur6beersaway]

$197 @ amazon...$204 @ newegg

$150 (new) I would pull the trigger.

 

[Jaxem]

Not necessarily, unless Intel does something with future CPU's that makes the old one's desirable (like how the initial FX release made the Phenom II's worth more with AMD), they will continue to go down until rock bottom like USAFRet said...maybe 20 years from now when there are only a handful left that you can actually buy will they go up, but until then they'll be like an old athlon 64...just going down down down until you can get one for $8.00 shipped.

 

[jaguarskx]

Older AMD CPUs may go down in price until supplies dwindle and prices goes back up again. But older Intel CPUs do not really go down in price. You may see them on sale, but that's different compared a permanent or long term price drop. Again, once supplies starts dwindling, the price goes up.


For example, the Q9450 had a street price of about $320 when initially released. I bought mine for around $360 because there was such a high demand for them that e-tailers jacked up the price. Eventually prices settled back down to around $320. Nowadays a brand new Q9450 can be bought for $366.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00116VIEE/ref=asc_df_B00116VIEE2698763?smid=A1OH90MA4UKR9I&tag=dealtmp920762-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395105&creativeASIN=B00116VIEE