On 9/12/2020 8:52 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Yousuf Khan" wrote

| Something like this coming to the client side would be a nightmare, as
| selling old processors is a common thing.

It is? I've never thought of buying a used CPU.
And it has to fit the board, anyway. I paid about $65
for my current 8-core, 3.3 GHz AMD. Why buy used?
Though I have noticed that prices seem to have
gone crazy. I wonder why? They seem to start at $200+
these days.

That's exactly why buying used CPU's are common. If you can buy let's
say a 1st gen octa-core Ryzen for about the same price as a quad-core
new Ryzen, why wouldn't you do it? There might be at most a 10%
reduction in single-core performance, but a big rise in multi-core
performance. And they all fit into the same motherboards too.

Historically, in my life, I would say I may have bought maybe 20-30% of
my previous CPU's used. The rest were new ones, but I would have to say
in many cases, the new processors I've bought were previous-generation
processors to save some money. Rarely have I bought cutting-edge current
generation processors (actually can't think of any time, but may have
happened); even if I did buy current generation, it would likely be a
lower-end one. But even buying low-end current, or high-end previous
gen, doesn't compare to the prices you'll get on used processors usually.

Yousuf Khan