What is the most you have ever paid for a CPU?

[Sputnik]

Can't remember exactly how much it was anymore, but I remember the P2 400 costing a handful when I bought it less than two months after release.

I bought a P2 300 at release but, don't remember how much I paid for it, I just remember my brother-in-law being amazed at how fast it was How things have changed

[CrazyMonkey]

£306 for a Q6600 not long after launch - and that was a v.good deal

[Max Tractor]

A crazy £200 for a opteron 146 oct 2005 imported from Germany, it was offset with a compersation dfi ultra d, due to the e-tailer making a mess of the transfer. It would need to be something very special for me to go over the 100/120 mark ever again

[TheMadDutchDude]

The most I've ever spent is on a Pentium D 915 2.8GHz which was £85 back in the day. I am planning to get a Q6600 some time though so, that'll up my maximum I've ever paid

[Trash Man]

The most I've ever spent is on a Pentium D 915 2.8GHz which was £85 back in the day. I am planning to get a Q6600 some time though so, that'll up my maximum I've ever paid

Not if you pick up a used one

[matty-hodgson]

£235 here, for my i7 920.
Q6600 was £170 too.

only 2 processors i've ever bought.

[Badbonji]

£235 here, for my i7 920.
Q6600 was £170 too.

only 2 processors i've ever bought.

Have you overclocked the i7 yet? It wil make that £235 cpu much better bang for buck, getting around 50% extra performance at 4Ghz (very achievable if cooling keeps the cpu cool enough) and feel so much faster than a Q6600 in everything. At stock, my i7 965 didn't feel much faster than a Q9450 @ 3.7Ghz, but that is 3.2ghz vs 3.7 in single apps where the i7 isn't so much faster in. Now at 4.35Ghz the only bottleneck is my HD, which will be an SSD soon I hope : \

[matty-hodgson]

Have you overclocked the i7 yet? It wil make that £235 cpu much better bang for buck, getting around 50% extra performance at 4Ghz (very achievable if cooling keeps the cpu cool enough) and feel so much faster than a Q6600 in everything. At stock, my i7 965 didn't feel much faster than a Q9450 @ 3.7Ghz, but that is 3.2ghz vs 3.7 in single apps where the i7 isn't so much faster in. Now at 4.35Ghz the only bottleneck is my HD, which will be an SSD soon I hope : \

adding the SSDs basically makes all the difference.
going from my old Q6600 to this made barely any difference cos i still had the same bottleneck with my HD, but adding the SSDs made it about a million times faster

i'm gonna overclock it sometime next week though, ordered a TRUE black cos my Scythe Miné is clogged up with dust and the bottom isn't flat and i cba with the 'lapping'.
should be able to hit 4GHz with it

[Will404]

Mine was about £115 for a Q6600. I love to look at its price in Scan now £136. Woot recession (hide)

[piggin23]

I always purchase the day before a price drop.

Going to get a i7 920 on a today's special with SCAN @ £238.25 in April so by May they would have dropped by ££££££'s

So £238.25 will be the most and £140.00 for my Q6600 back last year, when the pound was worth something

[matty-hodgson]

I always purchase the day before a price drop.

Going to get a i7 920 on a today's special with SCAN @ £238.25 in April so by May they would have dropped by ££££££'s

So £238.25 will be the most and £140.00 for my Q6600 back last year, when the pound was worth something

the i7 920 is cheaper than that right now on Scan.
so what you waiting for?

[piggin23]

Not just yet, going to get the D0 stepping when they come out.

[cptwhite_uk]

£240 (i think!?) for my E6600 off someone on these forums around September 06. Then in September 08 I paid half as much, for twice as much CPU (Q6600 G0) at the bargain price of £114.

That E6600 was worth it though, clocked to 3.4Ghz and was fantastic all through it's life span.

[format]

Matty what did you pay for your SSDs?

[matty-hodgson]

Matty what did you pay for your SSDs?

£127 each.
they don't appear to be on Novatech anymore though so i can't link you
they were £99.99 a while back but i didn't have enough back then (and/or the need to buy any of them )

[scaryjim]

As with most people (or so it seems) mine was my Q6600 for ~ £165. Apart from that I haven't paid more than £60 for a processor for myself, although I have done a few builds for friends / family @ the £100+ mark, including a 3400+ skt 939 Athlon and a couple of C2Ds (the 6320 and 6400, iirc)...