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processor for the pc gaming?

i7 is absolute best period but I still recommend an i5 to anyone looking for gaming/office duty. I know almost no one who can really push an i7 or does any real encoding.
 
rudy said:
I do not agree with this. The new CPUs actually cost less to make in most cases. This is the harsh reality of silicon development. The other factor is that anything on an old socket will typically fall in price when a new socket comes out then it will climb way back up as supply drops because they know they can force people to choose between an upgrade / replacement and a whole new system. Many people take the upgrade and they make bank on old chips.
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That's not true. Danny is right. Intel never does a price job on older CPUs, they want people to buy the new stuff; not the old stuff.
 
rudy said:
I do not agree with this. The new CPUs actually cost less to make in most cases. This is the harsh reality of silicon development.
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Ok, and? Intel is still charging similar prices for the newer CPUs as their older CPUs.
rudy said:
The other factor is that anything on an old socket will typically fall in price when a new socket comes out then it will climb way back up as supply drops because they know they can force people to choose between an upgrade / replacement and a whole new system.
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If we're just talking about Intel here, if there was a price drop for older CPUs for an older socket, it would often only be like $10 to $15. In addition, if there was a price drop, it would generally happen several months AFTER the release of the new CPU. But generally I never saw Intel CPUs for an older socket actually drop in price right when the new CPU sockets actually came out.
 
Skillz said:
That's not true. Danny is right. Intel never does a price job on older CPUs, they want people to buy the new stuff; not the old stuff.
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Not always the case, infact for intel it does become cheaper to build the newer chips versus the old.

Back when the C2 family of processors were coming out and well after they refreshed the C2D's intel was making more money off of their legacy 945 chipset.

Its all situational, but history tells us intel doesn't enforce a lower price on thier older chips to help clear stock.
 
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