Proceeding with cancelling my preorder of the 5600x. I have no idea what is happening with my order, and with €330 gone from my account I find it a bit of disgrace that there has been no update on my order. At least there should be a email stating my current que position upon placing the order so I dont have to sit here for 7 days waiting and digging through 10s of forum posts to try and get a idea on whats happening.
I expect my que position is 800+ as I placed my order on the 6th and see the numbers shipped by another competitor (30 units....) I can't see myself getting this before Christmas, so I did a little digging and found a site with 25+ 5600x's from a different company in mainland Europe cost me €360 shipped, the only hassle was sending the customer service a short email to confirm they ship to Ireland (which the do) and paying a little more for postage.
The extra cost is worth it, I have my motherboard and ram sitting here collecting dust and my current cpu (i5 3570k) is struggling to run my college workload.