When 4770K is released, how much will price drop for 3770K?

[szvwxcszxc]

I want to know if I should sell my 3770K soon before it drops in price, if it does, and upgrade to 4770K, or what.

 

[kmurkey]

I think none, they will just EOL it. Used one price will drop, however, and i see nothing wrong in buying a used cpu, been doing that always and never had any problems whatsoever.

 

[szvwxcszxc]

I think none, they will just EOL it. Used one price will drop, however, and i see nothing wrong in buying a used cpu, been doing that always and never had any problems whatsoever.

??? I have big news for you - prices don't stay the same forever. want to buy a 720 for $300?

 

[kmurkey]

http://techreport.com/review/23663/as-amd-struggles-intel-chip-prices-stagnate

sure they drop, but intel is in such a market lead, that the drop is miniscule. they just don't have to do it.

 

[szvwxcszxc]

http://techreport.com/review/23663/as-amd-struggles-intel-chip-prices-stagnate

sure they drop, but intel is in such a market lead, that the drop is miniscule. they just don't have to do it.

Obviously I am talking resale value, not retail. Also that post is REALLY old.

 

[ViRGE]

This is very close to being a price check thread (which we don't allow), but I'll leave this open for now

Obviously I am talking resale value, not retail. Also that post is REALLY old.

You should specify "used" in your title then. Because the others are right: Intel isn't in the habit of cutting prices on old CPUs these days; they just discontinue them.

 

[kmurkey]

it's my fault really, i haven't read the post quite well. the price of used components will always fall when a new technology appears. Of course, since haswell isn't much of a leap, it will drop slower than usual i reckon.

 

[blackened23]

No. The price will not drop. PERHAPS 10-20$ max, but more than likely zero change. As a general rule of thumb - throughout their long history , Intel has not lowered prices of EOL products for the most part.

Corporate purchasers still buy EOL products in droves, so they have no need to lower prices of EOL products, so they won't lower the MSRP of the 3770k. That said, select vendors may have "fire sales" - I have seen microcenter stores offer various sales of EOL products. But the MSRP will not be changing MORE than likely.

 

[Denithor]

I think the OP is more asking if he should sell his 3770K now and replace with 4770K.

Lots of people are selling IB chips right now - exactly like you are considering - to upgrade to Haswell. This will push down the prices on these used chips in the short term.

Longer term, you're sitting on the fastest chip that has been/is likely to ever be released for socket 1155. Those are the chips that often fetch very high prices in the used market a while after EOL, as people decide they would like to upgrade their Pentium/i3 dual core setups to a quad-core without having to replace the whole thing and/or mess with Windows reinstall/reactivation.

So, if you don't need the Haswell setup today, you could actually get a better return on your chip just using it for another 1-2 years and selling it then to upgrade. Plus you'll get in on whatever Intel has out then instead of today, and the added instruction sets (AVX2) will have had a chance to gain some traction so the new chips will be even faster where supported.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Longer term, you're sitting on the fastest chip that has been/is likely to ever be released for socket 1155. Those are the chips that often fetch very high prices in the used market a while after EOL, as people decide they would like to upgrade their Pentium/i3 dual core setups to a quad-core without having to replace the whole thing and/or mess with Windows reinstall/reactivation.

So, if you don't need the Haswell setup today, you could actually get a better return on your chip just using it for another 1-2 years and selling it then to upgrade. Plus you'll get in on whatever Intel has out then instead of today, and the added instruction sets (AVX2) will have had a chance to gain some traction so the new chips will be even faster where supported.

This. The high-end halo chips for each socket fetch a premium on the used market, that other chips on that same socket don't reach nearly that high.

Look at S939, X2 4800+, versus, say 3800+.

I bought an X2 4800+ off of a member here, and then I built a rig for a friend and just gave it away. It's still plenty powerful for web browsing and movie watching, with 2GB DDR RAM installed, and Windows 7.