How Far Down Will Sandy Bridge Prices Go?

[JustinDee]

Well, since we all know that the new Ivy Bridge processors are coming out in a month or two, for those on a budget (like me) how far down will the Sandy Bridge Processors like the i5 2400, i5 2500k, etc. go in terms of prices? Does anyone have an idea or source of information?

 

[amuffin]

None. zero. Look at the previous gen processors, same price.

 

[Raidur]

Probably not too much, if I remember right first gen core CPUs didn't drop much.

Often this is due to them stopping production of the older generations.

 

[amuffin]

And then because of demand of something they dont' make anymore price goes up!!!

 

[vollman1]

Well...

Micro Center sells the i5 2500k for like $179 and the i7 2600k for $279.

I wouldn't expect wide scale prices to go down past that.

 

[vollman1]

Probably not too much, if I remember right first gen core CPUs didn't drop much.

Often this is due to them stopping production of the older generations.

And then because of demand of something they dont' make anymore price goes up!!!

Ain't that the truth lol

Same for video cards....

Its a racket.

 

[loneninja]

Since Ivy Bridge works on the same socket as Sandy Bridge prices will probably drop a little but I doubt it'll drop much. I would expect retail channels to actually dry up before any major price drops occur because Intel will stop shipping the processors to retailers, probably dump the last of their Sandy Bridge for cheap to OEMs to get rid of them.

 

[jaguarskx]

I would say a price drop of around $5. In the extreme best case scenario $10.

Excluding any sales, coupons, rebates or extremely low prices to draw people into the store (i.e. Micro Center).

 

[ebalong]

None. zero. Look at the previous gen processors, same price.

Like this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=19-115-218&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo


Why is that Nehalem dual core still being sold for as much as the 2600K? Because it "overclocks really good"?

 

[jprahman]

Don't expect the prices on previous gen Intel processors to drop much if at all. If you are lucky the price will go down about $10. My i5-760 only dropped about $10 in price over the past two or so years.

 

[jaguarskx]

Like this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=19-115-218&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo


Why is that Nehalem dual core still being sold for as much as the 2600K? Because it "overclocks really good"?

Because of relatively low stock (not produced anymore). There have been times when the price actually goes up when the remaining stock is extremely low.

 

[ebalong]

I guess what I don't get is how can there still be a demand for processors that are almost 2 gens back in time, at least enough to cause the price to hold at that level. Are there a lot of folks with 1156 boards that are in some weird upgrade scenario, that got the lowliest Nehalem chip sometime in 2009-2010, and consider a chip like the i5-670 a worthy "upgrade"? I suppose there is always plenty of OEM ready-made boxes that may have a chip like that, and marketed as a "Hyper Performance Special" or something.

 

[jprahman]

I don't think it's even a matter of demand as much as Intel not lowering it's wholesale prices.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Why would we lower our prices? We produce our products up until a point generally after a new product has been released and than we no longer sale them. We let the distributors know that we are going to end that processor months in advance. They have the ability to return any leftover stock to us and in the end we have no control over the pricing of leftovers on the market. If someone buys a processor at $100 from a distributor they don't want to sell it for anything less.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[87ninefiveone]

Seems a moot point to answer after the Intel guy, but...

It seems to me that Intel has left themselves a nice open spot in the market in regards to pricing with the rather wide rift between Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge E equipment. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the top of the line Ivy Bridge stuff slot in between the two current products and the lower performance stuff get priced at a 10-20% markup on comparable 1155 stuff. Just a guess though.

 

[amuffin]

Why would we lower our prices? We produce our products up until a point generally after a new product has been released and than we no longer sale them. We let the distributors know that we are going to end that processor months in advance. They have the ability to return any leftover stock to us and in the end we have no control over the pricing of leftovers on the market. If someone buys a processor at $100 from a distributor they don't want to sell it for anything less.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

I see, so you guys decide base price and the rest is up to the sellers. So I guess we shouldn't be complaining at all about companies themselves, we should be complaining about the resellers.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

$10 tops

 

[13thmonkey]

I see, so you guys decide base price and the rest is up to the sellers. So I guess we shouldn't be complaining at all about companies themselves, we should be complaining about the resellers.

Everyone has to make their margin, the resellers included.

 

[willard]

Seems a moot point to answer after the Intel guy, but...

It seems to me that Intel has left themselves a nice open spot in the market in regards to pricing with the rather wide rift between Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge E equipment. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the top of the line Ivy Bridge stuff slot in between the two current products and the lower performance stuff get priced at a 10-20% markup on comparable 1155 stuff. Just a guess though.

Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but IVB pricing leaked months ago. They are almost exactly the same prices as Sandy Bridge.

 

[amuffin]

Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but IVB pricing leaked months ago. They are almost exactly the same prices as Sandy Bridge.

Probably won't be, up to the resellers.

 

[danny2000]

It seems to me, that the resellers would be wanting to unload their older products at a discount, and take a loss. Write it off in taxes, etc.

 

[13thmonkey]

or sell it back to intel at no loss, intel have all but confirmed that they do it.

 

[13thmonkey]

but certainly no point in lowering prices.

 

[87ninefiveone]

Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but IVB pricing leaked months ago. They are almost exactly the same prices as Sandy Bridge.

Not so much a conspiracy as an observation followed by an educated guess. The conspiracy forums are located at the following link for future reference...

http://lunaticoutpost.com/

 

[vollman1]

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