QuestionMarkNoob wrote:E8400-CV wrote:If the price difference in $ between i5 and i7 stays the same over time... that means the i5 loses value faster percentage wise. So for the cost of once spending $100 more you can enjoy an i7 over an i5 for the rest of your life... or for as long as that used-value thing persists at least![]()
I meant that the changes in price should be more or less relative (lower ofc) to their starting price, at least on ebay after the fist couple of years after the release imo. After these years, the prices get really diverse, and you will be able to find both at absolutely terrible and insanely good prices for both. But since this is pretty much impossible to test reasonably and highly depends on individuals, location and luck, it is hard to tell what will happen. In my location, the 6600k actually kept more of his value compared to the 6700k. And again, that is variance most likely.
I just look on eBay - European Union and national used market. The downward curve in $ / year seems the same. The i5-2500K is now only worth about 1/4 of it's new price, the i7-2600K still sits at 1/3.
QuestionMarkNoob wrote:E8400-CV wrote:Upgrading only a CPU is a pretty rare thing anyway. The buyer of your older CPU needs to buy a board anyway.
Exept when he already has a board with a bad CPU and want to upgrade the CPU without needing to buy a new board.
Yes, but if that happens to you on Intel platform... used prices for boards of EOL sockets are very high because way more boards die than CPU's. So you can sell your old board at a small loss and just buy everything new.
In all these years I've never had a death CPU anyway. Motherboards though... a bunch. But never, never, a death CPU. Even though many have been installed, uninstalled and reinstalled in another board. Not even laptop CPU's.
Lets say you have a 6700K with Z170 board, the board dies and you can get a S1151v2 board in return for $10 extra.... that's just pure bonus. Sell the 6700K and you can buy anything new that is faster and/or cheaper.
Now if my Z170 board were to die, I definitely hope to get that deal too
