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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**

Pourma said:
That's funny.... quite literally.

I have ALREADY spent more than any gaming only user would say. I think you are the one over spending. I now have a pretty balanced storage solution.

1x 6tb Toshiba X300 HDD

1x 2tb Crucial MX500

1x 1tb Sabrent Rocket 4

All I do is game and watch videos. I got an SSD to match the Xbox's speed because that is what devs will target. Unless your doing video editing or something you are just chasing bigger numbers as if it means anything.
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haha hello big spender, you obviously haven’t been here long. Ps we don’t bother listing our storage HD’s anymore, that’s so early 2000’s
 
@Gibbo on launch day you said orders placed by 5pm (mine was much earlier) would be fulfilled by the end of November. I appreciate stock has been a nightmare, but do you plan to ship anything this week? That level of info would be super helpful for those affected.
 
labbby said:
haha hello big spender, you obviously haven’t been here long. Ps we don’t bother listing our storage HD’s anymore, that’s so early 2000’s
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Big Spender? I am trying to show that currently the NVMe is overkill for gaming. The dude I am replying to is trying to make the Sabrent Rocket 4 out to be a bad SSD which is just patently false. If I can game off a 7200 HDD, a slow sata SSD... then a 5000 MBps SSD is more than enough.

I am not bragging, and if you think I am... what is the dude I am replying to doing?
 
Gibbo said:
Yes the 200 order landed, so some units are missing, the 85 has not yet arrived yet, with no updates.
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Okay, so to clarify, the 85 units have been dispatched from a supplier? Are they in the UK? Was there any estimated shipping time? I'm confused as to why these were forgotten about.
 
brodlum said:
Okay, so to clarify, the 85 units have been dispatched from a supplier? Are they in the UK? Was there any estimated shipping time? I'm confused as to why these were forgotten about.
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Things are easy to get confusing when your managing several product launches, several product lines and the warehouses and couriers all around the world are maxed out.

The 85 units are incoming to us, but there is no further ETA other then they are still shipping and more information is not forthcoming, I suspect it is simply because the suppliers are basically way to busy to be chasing down orders and will simply say they are on the way, wait and be patient because like all previous deliveries they eventually turn up. Don't think some of you quite realise the situation the whole world is in right now, the whole supply chain is working at 120% and as much as you may not like it, the staff at these companies do not have time to micro manage everything.

So the 85 will turn up, when well that could be this week or end of the month.
The good news is the 300 we have been waiting for since launch that were promised but ETAs kept slipping have finally arrived at master distributor and should ship in the next day or two and will then arrive with us end of this week / early next week.
 
As much as the news given today by Gibbo is welcome and I really appreciate it I am still confused. Gibbo said that he has sourced some (15) grey market 5800x, due for arrival around the 14th. By which time a competitor is expecting to have had 300 delivered and be preparing to receive another 600.
Why is there such a vast difference in supply from one vendor to another? Surely their suppliers are the same? There can't be that many distis for 5000 series chips?
 
H0stile said:
As much as the news given today by Gibbo is welcome and I really appreciate it I am still confused. Gibbo said that he has sourced some (15) grey market 5800x, due for arrival around the 14th. By which time a competitor is expecting to have had 300 delivered and be preparing to receive another 600.
Why is there such a vast difference in supply from one vendor to another? Surely their suppliers are the same? There can't be that many distis for 5000 series chips?
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AMD are drop shipping, will be how they are working out the schedule and I imagine they have thousands are huge palit shipments to sort out throughout the world and it simply is what it is.
The logistics for shipping thousands of processors to thousands of customers worldwide will not be something that happens all in one day, it takes weeks.
 
Gibbo said:
Things are easy to get confusing when your managing several product launches, several product lines and the warehouses and couriers all around the world are maxed out.

The 85 units are incoming to us, but there is no further ETA other then they are still shipping and more information is not forthcoming, I suspect it is simply because the suppliers are basically way to busy to be chasing down orders and will simply say they are on the way, wait and be patient because like all previous deliveries they eventually turn up. Don't think some of you quite realise the situation the whole world is in right now, the whole supply chain is working at 120% and as much as you may not like it, the staff at these companies do not have time to micro manage everything.

So the 85 will turn up, when well that could be this week or end of the month.
The good news is the 300 we have been waiting for since launch that were promised but ETAs kept slipping have finally arrived at master distributor and should ship in the next day or two and will then arrive with us end of this week / early next week.
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I really don't mean to come off as upset or otherwise not understanding of the situation, I completely get that it's out of your hands and that there's a lot of dynamics moving here.

I really do appreciate the effort ocuk puts into securing product, it's just the information isn't listed in one central place (we now have the forum, but that didn't contain the same info as in the blog page, for example). It becomes hard to know if information is current or not.

I think my main issue with ocuk is pricing, among the greater UK pc community I think you're being laughed at a fair bit due to the higher prices relative to competitors- which makes buying products from you harder to justify. For the CPUs this hasn't been too bad, but with the Radeon 6000 series where I paid an excess £90 over MSRP that just feels a bit too steep. Really taints the perception of the brand.
 
Gibbo said:
AMD are drop shipping, will be how they are working out the schedule and I imagine they have thousands are huge palit shipments to sort out throughout the world and it simply is what it is.
The logistics for shipping thousands of processors to thousands of customers worldwide will not be something that happens all in one day, it takes weeks.
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Thanks for that Gibbo I understand that a little more now. I appreciate your reply. :)
 
brodlum said:
I think my main issue with ocuk is pricing, among the greater UK pc community I think you're being laughed at a fair bit due to the higher prices relative to competitors- which makes buying products from you harder to justify. For the CPUs this hasn't been too bad, but with the Radeon 6000 series where I paid an excess £90 over MSRP that just feels a bit too steep. Really taints the perception of the brand.
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Look on the bright side. Few months ago I only knew about biggest online retailer in the world that everyone knows and OCUK for all the PC stuff that is not available there. OCUK was my go to site and I would recommend them to other people when they asked me where to get stuff. It just wasn't worth to research other stores etc as OCUK was perfect and I trusted them as they even accept payments through that biggest trusted retailer.
Well... that all has changed now. I was forced to look for others when trying to get 3080 on launch, they suddenly raised the price up about £50 when I finally managed to put the card in the basket. Since then, I cancelled my 3080 order with a bad taste in my mouth and for CPU went to the competition.
Not having stock is perfectly understandable to me - every store struggles with that. The communication part is severely lacking but maybe I would forgive that - new GPU/CPU is "nice to have" rather than "OMFG I NEED TO HAVE IT RIGHT NOW!!!".
Last minute price changing, severely overcharged pre-orders - that has not only killed any "loyalty" I had to OCUK but made me "angry" at them to the point that I use other stores first and would only use OCUK as last resort.
Thanks to their behaviour, I know so many other online retailers and some of them (not many but still) seem to cope much better with price, stock and communication issues.
 
Got my 5950x, hoping to get time to do the new build next week.

Is it safe to try POST without a cooler? Just want to do a quick outside the case build to check I've no dud components
 
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