Buying older Ryzen CPUs around 8th October

[Rikmeister]

I've seen a few comments on this forum suggesting people wait until the 8th before buying a Ryzen CPU. Although I'm not looking to buy a 4000 series CPU (unless the pricing is surprisingly cheap), but I was wondering if there might be a knock-on effect on the pricing of existing Ryzen CPUs?

This could happen in one of 2 ways: 1) retailers clear stock of existing chips by reducing prices, or 2) increasing supply of 2nd hand CPUs come on to the 2nd hand market making older CPUs more competitive.

Any thoughts?

 

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Thanks CuriousTomCat, that's good advice. Maybe I'll have a look at the 3600 for now - if it goes down a bit when the 4000 series comes out that will be a bonus.

 

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Makes sense to me, clv101

 

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The right* time to buy will probably late February

Can't argue with that logic! Last year AMD released their CPUs earlier (July?) so no clash with manufacturing for the console market.

 

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No console market to clash with at all, since the new consoles are only out this year.

Okay, you can argue with the logic!
To be fair, even without new models I would expect Nov/Dec to be a peak time for consoles sales.

 

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No it went to £199 first then, just kind of hovered like that then fell off a cliff after Sept. You could get one for as low as £135 at one point around Oct/Nov time.

This is really interesting. It's been a long time since I built my own system so I'm really out of the loop Re how the market works.

 

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Doesn't bode well for similar happening at the start of October then.

I wouldn't hold my breath for massive previous generation price drops shortly after the 4000 launch.

Agreed. Also, the relativ weakness of Intel means that AMD doesn't really need to introduce vastly improved CPUs at the same price point, at least at the lower end of the market.

 

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Only positive you've got the Nov sales/Black Friday not long after launch this year, where as last year they were out in July, so that was 4 months away!

Just checked out when Black Friday is this year - Friday 27 November; about 2 and a half months, but I don't mind waiting - it will give me time to figure out what I want.

 

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Just waiting to see what the market does now. May pick something cheap up just to run it (and test the other components before their return window runs out!) ... whether I go that route will depend on prices / stock availability I guess.

I was thinking, as I'm not in a hurry, if I see good offers I could nab the deals as they occur, which is fine as long as everything works.

 

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3600 should just go down to where the 2600 was.

Do you think? Don't offen see the 2600 offered these days but I think it's around £120/£130. The 3600 did go as low as £140 as bimbleuk said, but now is nudging £200

 

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Thanks Dg, that's really good advice.

 

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3600 will hold it's value as it's so good and people will hold onto it imo. I'd be watching for 3700x dropping in price as more with that will upgrade to 4000

Thanks for the tip.

 

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... plan to pick up a high end Zen3 CPU. Should keep my X570 system going for many years.

What do you think of the x570 vs the b550?

 

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Based on yesterday's adventures, it may be hard to get a 4000 for a while after launch, so the 3000 prices might not fall quickly.

Are you talking about the Nvidia launch?

 

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There's lots of choice out there so I'm sure you'll find something that suits your needs.

Thanks. I'll keep the x570 in mind, although a) there don't appear to be many choices, and b) they tend to be a fair bit more expensive than the cheaper B550 boards. However, as you say it does have the advantage of a fair degree of future proofing.