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What use is another retailer who has no stock but an "honest" price? What's the bet that when they do have stock, the price jumps?
At this point we're half way though the CPUs cycle so if anything it should be under msrp as in 6 months it will be replaced by something better.
Part of me is tempted to post how much retailers pay for GPUs, so you guys can further see through the bull **** but I might be pushing my luck at that point.
Any reason for this.
Are the prices ever going to go down on any prodcut which has been hiked up, because people are paying it which realistically means why would they ever lower it?
If you really need a 16 core, grab a 3*** series and sit tight for a year. When the AM5 comes out in the next year, there will be plenty on here selling the 5950x to upgrade to the new one.
3*** series 16 core is no slouch
There may well be some selling 5950x's to move to AM5. In my mind they will be making a very large mistake. AM5 will be DDR5, anyone buying into a new DDR platform at the start will pay for it dearly. Not only financially but in lack of performance and very lax timmings.
A more sensible approach is go with a 3950x or 5950x now and then wait for for a year after the AM5 launch. Any bios issues will be sorted by then and available ram will have much tighter timmings.
AM5 will be DDR5, anyone buying into a new DDR platform at the start will pay for it dearly. Not only financially but in lack of performance and very lax timmings.
It's all very well and good using past experiences of the moves from DDR/2/3/4 etc. but you also need to account for the added features this time round, which might make it more appealing than some people are saying. You've on DIMM PMIC, 40-bit data channels (8-bits for built in ECC) with two per DIMM, and also much higher bandwidth for non-latency sensitive applications, as the entry level parts will be 4800 MT/s, with vendors already pushing 6,400 MT/s as middle of the road, and even then the latency increase is expected to be much less than previous generations of DDR.
It's pretty much all change this time around, and alongside some potential huge platform benefits, 20+% IPC increase, low power, more cores, means that AM5 is looking massively appealing to be on. I developed a good number of systems on the first generation HEDT x399 Threadripper, yes there were issues, but not that weren't sorted pretty quickly or with careful component choice.
Obviously if you are just playing games, then stability has even less meaning, yet will be complained about more by people as they just want it to work, but they aren't enthusiasts they are users, I am sure if you go back to when you were pushing crazy overclocks, you sometimes had to take the rough with the smooth.
It looks like there is a fair bit of stock now (unless I happen to be browsing just after a load got added). £750 still seems very steep, what was the actual RRP for the CPU?
Damn that seems like a bit of qb jump from the $520 US review prices!
I've already got a 3700X so will probably upgrade the "max" my X470 platform before getting a whole new system. I could do it in a couple of years for maybe £300 or do it now for £750 but get two years of use out of it...