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5950X £960? Nah mate

499 for a 5900x now, yes please!

I paid 157 for my 3600 last summer whilst waiting for the 5000 series to launch, then covid, stock and all that jazz, now delighted to see it finally at mrsp.
 
DeliciousStorage said:
5900x price is already at MSRP now so it's unlikely to have another big price drop any time soon.
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Depends. AMD have a habit of dropping prices below MSRP once they've sold to all first adopters.

Although this was when they had to actually worry about Intel.

Also this time around they haven't actually released non-X chips which usually compete against the X chips.
 
Maybe the first batch didn't sell in Australia. UK got a batch, low numbers, it sold out, there doesn't seem to be any replacement chips at all. Wonder if the high end 8 core is hard to fabricate.
 
Trunkey said:
You would be gutted / furious if you paid £578 yesterday!

Silly thing is it seems to me that no one will buy anything now as people will wait for the price to stabilise.
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If that's from ocuk, then just message them in customer services and they will refund the difference.
 
I nearly bought too, 5900x was what I had wanted originally (now have a 5800x, so figure if I could get £300 for that then the upgrade would cost £200 net) but couldn't make my mind up whether it was worth doing or not in the end (for me the main benefit would have been shorter video render times but at the end of the day that's only a hobby for me and tbh the 5800x has been fine so far). The offer ending has made my mind up for me though :p.

Am expecting to have the same dilemma at some point in the future if the 5950x goes on sale somewhere!
 
Cooler running said:
Apparently the refresh wouldn't be a significant step forward, I'd at least wait for AM5, if waiting at all.
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I've got the the whole system, with a temporary 3600. Plan was 5900x, once enough reviews were out. You know how that went.

Not sure I want to build a whole new system - just want the best, sane CPU in this socket. 6600k lasted years, expect this set up as well?
 
Well that is the 5900x bought. Was waiting patiently for it to come back down to MSRP before hitting the go button (missed out on the £499 deal over the weekend).

My workload mainly hits 8-10 cores so should be a nice little boost over the 3950X it replaces. The latter is an absolute beast just wasted (well ~4 cores of it anyway) for my use case. :)
 
q974739 said:
I've got the the whole system, with a temporary 3600. Plan was 5900x, once enough reviews were out. You know how that went.

Not sure I want to build a whole new system - just want the best, sane CPU in this socket. 6600k lasted years, expect this set up as well?
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I'd personally be surprised if the 5900x around the £499 mark would hold up any worse than whatever is coming in a pre-AM5 refresh.
 
Cooler running said:
I'd personally be surprised if the 5900x around the £499 mark would hold up any worse than whatever is coming in a pre-AM5 refresh.
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I'm not sure. If I hadn't snagged the 3600, I'd have offered at 499. No question, just needed a workable system.

But now? It's analysis paralysis, with no good reason to do anything.
 
q974739 said:
I'm not sure. If I hadn't snagged the 3600, I'd have offered at 499. No question, just needed a workable system.

But now? It's analysis paralysis, with no good reason to do anything.
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Yer I guess, as a 1600x 1070 user I certainly have had the same decision paralysis at times. At the end of the day so long as you're not struggling to play any games, or sitting watching progress bars during production tasks; then you're probably justified waiting a bit longer. Depends on what you need it for - I just assumed as you were looking at the 5900x that you had some heavy production tasks burning a hole in your pocket.

That's why I'm personally waiting until AM5 to upgrade, feel happy enough with my current system to sit on it for even longer than I first planned.
 
Cooler running said:
Yer I guess, as a 1600x 1070 user I certainly have had the same decision paralysis at times. At the end of the day so long as you're not struggling to play any games, or sitting watching progress bars during production tasks; then you're probably justified waiting a bit longer. Depends on what you need it for - I just assumed as you were looking at the 5900x that you had some heavy production tasks burning a hole in your pocket.

That's why I'm personally waiting until AM5 to upgrade, feel happy enough with my current system to sit on it for even longer than I first planned.
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Ah. Up until last month the 3600 was being hammered by a game I was running a local server for. Was painful to do anything else on it. But they'd finished, so I don't need 12 cores any more... until the next time we're doing silly things again.

But that won't be for a while, so I have time to wait. Urgency is gone. (And if the 3600 was bad the old 6600k was worse!)
 
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