Prices will definitely going to come down within the next few months. But for the ones who cannot wait - here is a deal.
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X,16-Core/32 Threads, Max Freq 4.9GHz,72MB Cache Socket Am4 105W, without cooler
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Not a deal if it's more than RRP, regardless if it is in stock or not.
here is a deal
RRP $1249.00
Really!!! :|
Not a deal
Even scalpers don't charge that much.
This is insane, I bought this at centrecom for $1250!
I managed to secure one from Tecs just this week for $1299 and it's currently on its way to me.
I only put my name down last week & paid in full at the same time. Maybe I got lucky.
It's worth trying them if you want one - https://www.tecs.com.au/ryzen-9-5950x-16-cores-32-threads-3-…
I also had my name down at PCC computers (https://pccaus.com)
since early December for one as well. I believe they are due to get them any day now. I've already paid for it and will cancel my order with them as soon as the other one turns up, so you could try them as well.
how do you reserve it at TECs? It says to contact them, but how do you do that? Just by email? What do they charge for shipping?
Shipping & handling was $21
I contacted them via the FB messenger icon that loads up on their website
My 5950X has arrived. Time to start putting it all together.
Not a deal… amazon had whacked on a whole lot of cheese to the pricing of Ryzen 5000s at first.
5900X was about $1,090
Lol stock notifications for items well over RRP are now a thing.
2020 just die.
Not a Bargain, Buddy. Lol
preorders can be placed for $1249…
where at, and ETA?
I'm trying to get 5900X, but at this stage I think I'm willing to accept anything that's available.
over at PCCG
no idea on ETA, im not expecting it to be too long though, at least not rtx3000 length.
Say NO to scalpers (Amazon in this case).
can someone explain to me the shortages? Is manufacturing on CPUs/GPUs/consoles down this year, or is the demand for them up?
Are most of these things manufactured in China or elsewhere? I'm pretty sure China controlled their coronavirus situation well and reopened for business quite early. If they manufactured less it would have been because the demand fell off as other countries faced economic hardships.
Or is nvidia/AMD purposefully cutting back production to generate artificial shortages to make the item more desired, and hold its value longer?
I know scalping is a thing, but it seems to me stuff goes out of stock a minute after it returns to stock at RRP which is not something we've seen before. It seems like units being shipped out are a lot less.
What's actually going on?
Why is this deal not showing up on the main page? I found it only via search. HAs it been moved to the forums?
These are new parts, so it's not just about demand going up or supply going down. People held off building new PCs till the new generation of CPUs and graphics cards came out, so you've got a wave of pent up demand to deal with. Highly binned CPUs such as the 5950X (they take the best silicon and use if for the more demanding / expensive parts, cherry picking the top couple of percent for the densest parts) are much harder to produce than the lower core count parts like the 5800X, hence the added scarcity.
On the graphics card side, if either nvidia or AMD could satisfy the market demand right now, they'd more than make up for any (probably negligible) drop in their supply price by absolutely stealing the market from their competitor, since most gamers will take what they can get their hands on in their price rang right now, so it's unlikely they'd be holding units back.
These are new parts, so it's not just about demand going up or supply going down. People held off building new PCs till the new generation of CPUs and graphics cards came out, so you've got a wave of pent up demand to deal with.
Doesn't this happen every year though? It happens with yearly phone/tablet iterations, annual CPU update, headphones, etc. This year in particular seemed egregious.
On the graphics card side
It's happening to almost everything though, GPUs, CPUs, consoles, VR headsets, anything that's good is sold out in seconds and doesn't get restocked for months. Surely they can make them faster than that? I would understand it if it gets sold out but restocked a week later. The demand isn't close to meeting the supply. Any time something sells out within seconds is abnormal, otherwise we'd have been seeing this every year for the last 20 years. Traditionally, you could even wait for bargains. Now you have to settle for RRP or higher, and you have to wait for an announcement of when it will be restocked, then you have to be ready before it goes live and super quick.
I've bought past CPUs on launch day without a problem. Either the demand really has increased, or people are making less.
This is way above RRP
Above RRP. No bargain.
Outrageous