Will older CPUs (i3/i5/i7) lower or raise in price with the advent of Skylake?

Feliks · Sep 8, 2015

I know it might seem like a funny question, but I feel like it could go either way because there would be less in stock or because they would no longer be as new/"top notch".

(Take, for example, a 7970 which are like $400 now when the newer r9 280x is only $200)

blazorthon · Sep 8, 2015

Based on how things have gone since Sandy Bridge, the older CPUs probably won't change much in price.

rgd1101 · Sep 8, 2015

They don't lower or raise much, you can check the price on 1st gen, 2nd gen, etc, it stay about the same.

boosted1g · Sep 8, 2015

The typical evolution cycle is for anything really is that the price drops slightly before release of the next version to keep sales up
A few months latter as more things are adopting to the newer generation the prices go down more
As demand goes down and supply plumits the price starts to go back up.

Now it will likely be a good year before you see prices effected much since skylake requires a different motherboard and memory.

Feliks · Sep 8, 2015

Thanks everyone

why_wolf · Sep 8, 2015

From what I've seen prices go down and either they go so low the chips just disappear from the market (or so old they're all dead anyways) or they start to go back up a little bit once they've become rare enough. For used sales at least.

For still new in the box stuff it seems like prices don't move much at all. I think they are just milking people who can't upgrade to handle new chips and have no choice but to use old stuff.

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