how is a PIII 850 more expensive than a p4 1.3?

[CasioTech]

what's up with these prices, nothing makes sense anymore?!?!

I never could understand what's the purpose of

making a 1.3,1.4,1.5,1.6,1.7,1.8ghz processor?

if they make 1.8, why would they still want to sell, or even waste materials on a 1.3ghz?

couldn't they discontinue the slower chips, as soon as something more expensive comes out??????????????

 

[dullard]

<< what's up with these prices, nothing makes sense anymore?!?!

couldn't they discontinue the slower chips, as soon as something more expensive comes out?????????????? >>



They discontinue their older models by keeping the price high. With a P3 850 so expensive, no one in their right mind would buy one. That way Intel has discontinued it. One reason to do it this way: Intel spends a few tens of dollars to produce these old chips, and a few suckers will still spend hundreds for them. So why not make a fortune while clearing out the inventory?

 

[Carbo]

Casio, it's a simple matter of supply and demand. I recently discovered that Intel is phasing out some of their PIII line of processors. As such, there are now fewer available. However, people are still looking for them to upgrade from, say, a PIII 500, (like I just did). So, if you have consumers looking, but few are available, the price is going higher. In my case, my mobo will only support a PIII 800MHz model. So even though the P4's are out, not everyone can take advantage of them.

 

[shathal]

Simple really.

Intel is pushing P4 for all its worth.

Therefor, pricing P4 more attractively (cough - eville marketing term, I apologize) makes sense, obviously. For those that want &quot;just the CPU upgrade&quot; - well - the P3's will still be around for a little while ...

 

[majewski9]

Not that I care about Intel, but they are trying to make the P4 a more attractive processor. Right now the P4 is not exactly selling. Why do you think they realeased the Tualatin? To compete with the Athlon4! The P4 won't be in notebooks until 2nd quarter 2002! Intel has to make the P4 compete with the Athlon so they realese certain speeds trying to get their flagship processor down in price. There is going to be a drastic drop in price here soon in P4's. Intel thinks they can price their processors what ever they want to!

 

[KrispyKremer]

Good question. I have a BX mobo that is crying out for an 850 cpu, but at current costs I could buy a 1.2gig AMD cpu instead. Granted, I'd then have to buy a new mobo as well, possibly new memory... aw hell, Intel is doing a good job at pushing me to not only upgrade my machine, but to do so with AMD.

 

[GregMal]

Well......take a P4 1.3 then add:
new expensive motherboard
new expensive RDram
new expensive case with new expensive PS
.
It's not that cheap..........
Greg

 

[MasterHoss]

ah, Casiotech, you must read Anand's article which he recently wrote about why the pricing is the way it is. He doesn't specifically say the &quot;old&quot; PIIIs but his statement carries over.

Basically, Intel is trying to push PIII away and bring P4 only as the &quot;performance&quot; processor.