Release of Ivy Bridge reduce i5 price?

[zoofie]

I'm going to be upgrading my CPU soon, and wondering if the release of Ivy Bridge at the end of this month would reduce the price of the Sandybridge i5 cpus?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

unlikely. Intel is in a position where they dont even need to release a new chip to compete, as there is no competition. the I5 2500k price has remained solid for over a full year.

 

[kcsmacker]

Nope. If it is lowered it will be slightly or in bundles with other hardware. Cheapest so far is microcenter:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0354589

which is as cheap as I think it will ever get.

 

[esrever]

intel doesn't lower prices.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

intel doesn't lower prices.

you meant to say "intel doesn't NEED to lower prices". They aren't the bad guy, they just have no real competition.

 

[constepatdyak]

^^ true

 

[WR2]

The kind of good news is that Intel isn't raising prices as much as it could probably get away with.

 

[zoofie]

So I might aswell buy my i5 now, instead of wait for the ivy bridge release - unless ivy bridge is similar price of course!

 

[WR2]

Can you wait two weeks and 3 days to confirm the prices?
You might end up wanting to slip right into an Ivy Bridge and Z77 motherboard.

 

[13thmonkey]

ivy bridge is rumoured to be the same price as list (not sale) sandy prices, so the prices that you saw 6 months ago. the 2500K has been dropping through spot sales recently.

 

[jsc]

At this point, if you can wait, wait for Ivy Bridge.

If you really need a system right now, buy SB.

Although IB should be a little faster, I think the greatest benefit of the IB motherboards will be the native USB3 support.

 

[geekapproved]

Intel rarely drops prices, maybe $10, then it will go back up as it's discontinued.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Looking at past history we don't drop prices when we release a new generation of Intel® processors. The demand for the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K has been extremely high (it is our best selling processor in the enthusiast space) so I would think there would be little reason to drop any prices for these prices. Once a processor has been discontinued we have no say over its pricing since we stop selling them at that point. So if you can wait a while you can pick up one of the 3rd generation Intel Core processors otherwise you are going to get as good of a deal as you can on the 2nd generation Intel Core processors right now.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team