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Buying always the latest CPU.

sblantipodi

sblantipodi

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Hi,
is there someone here who switch the CPU every time a new model is released just because he like to have the latest and the greatest?

If yes, what is your suggestion to not "burning the --OLD-- hardware" ?
Do you sell it? If yes, where? And what is a reasonable price to sell an outgoing CPU?
 
that is a very out there question.

I do not, so not pure answer here but, for selling most folks do so privately, such as here on [H]ard Ocp, places like Craigslist, myself I use Kijiji.

As for prices, well that depends on the product in question and how it was used, how old etc, IMO if used for say 6mths or longer it lost at least 1/3-1/2 its "worth" depends on how honest an individual you are, and how much in "use" that product still is.

Generally speaking processors especially Intel ones simply do not have the resell market nearly as high as say Graphics cards mainly because IMO they change sockets far to often which means in many cases folks will not want to buy a "dead end" but then again there will be folks with brains in their heads that know they still perform very well (provided they are not a crazy low end bargain bin celeron)

Anywho, really depends on your buyer more then anything else, for me I always look online to see what the price of one new would cost and use that in my selling price offer while trying to be reasonable to myself as well as buyer.
 
I give my old hardware to friends/family.
I only sell it if someone is going to upgrade anyway so they can save cash and there is an upgrade path for me that then becomes worthwhile.
I'm more of a GPU whore though, CPUs dont change enough to warrant buying every new version.
Only +5% performance per clock increase and no guarantee of clocking as high can make it a costly downgrade.
 
I either sell it or give it away to family/friends depending on their needs at the time. Usually, I sell in the forums here, but if I don't like the pricing, I sell on Ebay.
 
Nenu said:
I give my old hardware to friends/family.
I only sell it if someone is going to upgrade anyway so they can save cash and there is an upgrade path for me that then becomes worthwhile.
I'm more of a GPU whore though, CPUs dont change enough to warrant buying every new version.
Only +5% performance per clock increase and no guarantee of clocking as high can make it a costly downgrade.
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I generally do this same.. most of my family use my old machines, to friends I always sell for cheap, (never give hardware free to friends or they will eventually ask for more for free :mad:)..

About the upgrade time, Generally I start to upgrade processors/platform once they start to be a potential bottleneck for the desired task... specially for gaming.. I buy my personal machines with overclocking and gaming in mind so I buy the best for gaming at the moment if no see performance upgrade in generational changes at the desired overclocks then I just don't upgrade, that's why my personal machine it's still an old Ivy Bridge platform.... but also generally I just buy one of the latest and greatest available at the time just for testing purposes and platform knowledge if it have considerable changes respect the last platform..
 
sblantipodi said:
Hi,
is there someone here who switch the CPU every time a new model is released just because he like to have the latest and the greatest?

If yes, what is your suggestion to not "burning the --OLD-- hardware" ?
Do you sell it? If yes, where? And what is a reasonable price to sell an outgoing CPU?
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I only switch to the latest and greatest CPU under two circumstances.
1.) It must provide a 15-20% increase in overall performance.
2.) The platform must provide features I wish to have whether they are performance oriented or not. My jump from X58 to X79 for example wasn't about CPU performance as much as it was about the overall feature set of the platform.

I had a Core i7 980X and didn't upgrade to the Core i7 990X because it was a waste of money. The CPU had a marginal clock speed increase and I had a good example of CPU which was already overclocked to around the same area people were getting their Core i7 990X's to. Thus I saw no point in an upgrade. I didn't opt for the Core i7 4930K over the 3930K I had because it wasn't enough of a jump and the platform didn't change.

I tend to upgrade my "server" with the old parts or move them to my girlfriend's gaming rig. I normally sell parts when I have no need for them or they still have a fairly high resale value. When I do so, it's on the HardForum 99% of the time or to friends.
 
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