Why are the Intel Northwood Chips worth more than.......

[8Runner]

Prescotts?

On zipzoomfly.com, I noticed they have the Northwood 2.53 533FSB 512kb cache chips listed at $190 brand new and the Prescott 2.4 533FSB 1MB cache listed at $105. Hell, even the Prescott 2.8 800FSB 512kb cache is less than the Northwood at $175.

Why is that?

Thanks.

 

[CompGeek]

Low demand

 

[SidVicious]

Look, you're talking older, unpopular chips. Those are low level chips. Demand is low, meaning prices will be higher than expected.

Quite the opposite, Northwoods are no longer being manufactured, stocks are therefore limited and those CPUs represent the very last step in many system's upgrade path.

All those factors make the remaining Northwoods a sought-after ressource, the limited supply makes them expensive.

 

[mdd1963]

"Not to mention it's also a far superior chip.
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The Northwood "C" models are faster than the Prescotts, but the Northwood "B" models are not...

 

[JonathanDeane]

Yeah I love my northwood ! heheh Perhaps a Conroe will pry it from my grasp (actualy only like it becouse its processes video so quick and for everything else its "fast enough")

 

[222Doc]

the real thing to notice here is he is looking at 'b" chips in the add 533bus notice you wont find the fabled "c" (sold out)chips anymore. 800fsb and able to over clock like nothing intel has ever made since. the one that had more caps in the back will go 20-35% on air. If you look on the chips stats the OLD northy still ranks up there as a single chip. and its not even over clocked. i have a 3.0 C running at 3.66 stable on air have had it post at 3.9 but did not run it longer than a few minutes in bios at that number. have afew 2.4s that all run at 3.2 on stock air all day for years like a rock

great old chip, i bet you can find a used one at a good price. dont get a b chip they run hot as a presscott, i had a 3.06 533 "b" idle it ran at 6o cel

my northy 3.0@3.66 under load never gets over 50cel stock fan and heat sink.