Has anyone looked at the price of the retail Core i5 3570K recently??

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I paid £166 for my i5-3570k from Amazon in December. If Bonebreaker paid £163 a month ago and it's £171 now it sounds mostly like currency fluctuations to me.

However,that was not the average price from multiple retailers though,as even Amazon and Ebuyer does special offers at times and so does Aria. The cheapest I have seen recently is £161 recently from Aria on a limited time offer. My mate even got a pre-overclocked HD7770 for £65 on a one day special from Amazon and it was £25 cheaper than any other place.

None of the other CPUs outside the K series have shown this though,so sadly I doubt its down to currency changes only.

For instance the Core i3 CPUs have stayed at between £90 to £100 since 2011. Pentium dual cores and low end Core i5 prices have either stayed stable or decreased. The T and S series Core i5 CPUs have dropped in price with IB. The socket 2011 CPUs have actually stayed stable or decreased in priced.

So,you need to consider the other CPUs too. Fluctuations should also affect these CPUs too,so a Core i3 should be £100 to £110 now for example,or a Celeron G530 or G540 should be £40 now,not £35.

The AMD CPUs have stayed stable in price too,and AFAIK AMD has not reduced the RRP for most of its CPUs for ages and they are in USD.

The only ones which they reduced the RRP of in the last few months was the AMD A4 CPUs.

[Homeking]

AMD did update their pricing at the end of January this year but I think the only series to drop in price were the Athlons:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/prici...op-athlon.aspx

You can pick up these for bargain prices now (less than £50 for a triple core) but I guess this is because they are older processors.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD did update their pricing at the end of January this year but I think the only series to drop in price were the Athlons:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/prici...op-athlon.aspx

You can pick up these for bargain prices now (less than £50 for a triple core) but I guess this is because they are older processors.

I didn't realise they had dropped pricing on the older AM3 and FM1 Athlon II CPUs.

[Homeking]

I didn't realised they had dropped pricing on the older AM3 and FM1 Athlon II CPUs.

There don't seem to be many places still selling the older AM3s but they do seem to have dropped quite a bit. AthlonII x3 450 for £48.90:

http://www.ebuyer.com/238326-amd-ath...-adx450wfgmbox

Also read that AMD are set to release the x2 280 so pleased they haven't totally disappeared even if they are getting old now!

[Bagnaj97]

There don't seem to be many places still seeling the older AM3s but they do seem to have dropped quite a bit. AthlonII x3 450 for £48.90:

http://www.ebuyer.com/238326-amd-ath...-adx450wfgmbox

They haven't dropped that much, I bought my X3 450 for £53.50 in Sept 2011!

[csluyuan]

Core i5 3570K average price is £184.
Core i7 3770K average price is £261.
FX8350 average price is £155.