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Buying older Ryzen CPUs around 8th October

~>Dg<~ said:
look you may not agree but it is true. often companies will keep a couple of old stock obviously for replacements but you will also see some priced stupidly silly. like £1000 yet it maybe a £100 part.
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And there is a reason for that - there is the possibility that someone will absolutely need that part in a great hurry and will be willing to pay that fee for it.

I remember a client needing a particular (ancient even then) modem for their internal communication system between warehouses - after the first disaster they were very happy to pay £5000 for 3 spare devices after losing £50k from 24 hours of lost production - I will add I wasn't the one who sold them at those prices, I was the poor sod searching around the world to find them.
 
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 (or 5000 or whatever it is called). I can see 3600x for cheaper than 3600 in some places.
 
Rikmeister said:
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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Not a bad plan. I'm running my 3700X until AM5 hits and then plan to pick up a high end Zen3 CPU. Should keep my X570 system going for many years.
 
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.
 
Slinky69 said:
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.
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How have previous hot CPU launches gone? Is it only GPUs that the manufacturers and retailers screw up?

I'll be after a 6 or 8 core Zen 3 next month.
 
Rikmeister said:
What do you think of the x570 vs the b550?
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I can tell you why I went X570, I don't have any experience of B550. I tend to keep systems a long time. With that in mind I wanted a motherboard that had reasonably future proof connectivity.

I wanted PCIE 4.0 as it should last me many GPU upgrades before my CPU is a bottleneck. I wanted 3 X m.2 to cater for any upgrades and to reduce the number of cables. I also wanted a platform that would take the next gen of CPU's and could handle up to 16 cores. Additionally it has USB C, backup BIOS, good RAM compatibility, plenty of USB options and a very good build quality.

If look at what you want it to do now, how long you intend to keep it, will you upgrade components and what do you anticipate connecting to it. Match that against the motherboard features and see if that falls into your budget.

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