Why do motherboard prices go up?

[bmw_kingz]

Ok so i was kind of curious on how much socket 2011 motherboards cost and they were like $180+ a piece. Then I went to the socket 1366 and still over the $120's. But newer motherboards are $50 and up. Why are newer motherboards wayy cheaper.

 

[Hamperking68]

The higher end ones a high in price because they are generally hard too get.

However with some they think they have some extremely expensive piece of equipment which in reality is only worth peanuts.

 

[weberdarren97]

I agree with Hamperking68, they get more expensive because there are less of them now than there was when they were new... And some sellers, as mentioned above, believe that their $35 motherboard is worth $100, and will then sell it for $120 and wonder why nobody buys it.

Law of supply and demand: If supply is higher than demand, the price goes down. If demand is higher than supply, the price goes up. Eventually, they even out into a Market Clearing Price, but that's a lesson all in itself...

 

[mrmez]

Why is a new Kia cheaper than a 2nd hand BMW?

 

[weberdarren97]

Because nobody I know likes KIA.

 

[joex444]

LGA1366 and LGA2011 are the high-end professional-level series of sockets. They are not the mainstream boards.

This explains two things. First, there's fewer LGA2011 boards with X79 chipsets than there are LGA1150 boards with H81, H87, or Z97 chipsets. Fewer things means harder to find. Second, LGA1366 and LGA2011 are dead (LGA2011-3 is not, hence why I said X79 not X99). The market has been flooded with older Xeon chips which use these sockets and people are trying to build 8C/16T machines for cheap but they need a no-longer made motherboard to use them. This is why some LGA1366 boards may actually sell for more now than they did brand new.

And as hinted at my mrmez, the LGA2011/1366 boards are fundamentally higher-end than the mainstream motherboards for mainstream CPUs. You can lose a large percentage of your original value and still be worth more than something new. Take a $300 X99 board. Currently it's worth 200% more than a $100 board. It could lose up to 66% of its value and still cost more than a new $100 board in several years; and we know that mainstream boards will be about $100 even though this is likely to be a socket that doesn't exist yet. Two separate markets for two separate kinds of equipment and two separate kinds of buyers.

 

[bmw_kingz]

Well do you think its worth it to get a 2011 mobo then getting an i7 3930k because of the 6 cores with hyperthreading

 

[Hamperking68]

Well do you think its worth it to get a 2011 mobo then getting an i7 3930k because of the 6 cores with hyperthreading

For the amount of extra money you would be spending that is a no.

The price to performance ratio also wouldn't be great compared to other CPU's and Mobo's available such as sky-lake.

 

[Tradesman1]

1366 mobos have long been out of production (5+ years) so any new that are available and even used can demand a premium price. X79 (though more recent) are out of production also, replaced by the X99 V3 mobos and CPUs, so again, for those available new they demand a premium - many people have good CPUs for these sockets and probably have had a mobo die, and often cheaper to buy just a more expensive mobo than to have to buy a new mobo AND CPU