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Purdy said:
Have mobo prices jumped a lot since 2700x release?
I got my Asus CH VII Wifi for I think £250? Equivalent (VIII) is £440 now?
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A combination of factors, X570 is expensive to manufacture, the pandemic, lots of people buying, rise in popularity of AMD. There are some good ones that are cheaper though. MSI Tomahawk and Unify boards are nice, Gigabyte makes some nice ones too.
 
clv101 said:
Whenever there is a shortage, we have two options, ration by price or ration by queueing. OCUK are adopting a combination of both. Had they just stuck to RRP, queues would be much longer.
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I think for OcUK at least there should be priority for forum members with linked account that have so many posts, say 100 posts.
Limit 'member stock' to say the first 1000 units of each CPU type on 5th Nov.
This would keep customer loyalty and the non enthusiasts / bots / scalpers away at least until 1000 units of each CPU have been shifted to people who will actually use them
 
beany_bot said:
So what you are saying is that you support price gouging?
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What I am saying is that while people flock to somewhere like Currys where this CPU is listed at £510, hopefully over here it will be "quieter" because the price isn't the lowest one - so we can manage to place an order. Like, that's all, there is no deeper hidden meaning in here - I'm just hoping to get a CPU on launch day because I have the rest of the PC built and waiting.


(let me put it this way - if Currys offered an extra £19 option to guarantee your order, I would happily tick that box. If spending that extra £19 on OC means we have a shot at actually getting the part, I'm happy to spend it)
 
gambiting said:
What I am saying is that while people flock to somewhere like Currys where this CPU is listed at £510, hopefully over here it will be "quieter" because the price isn't the lowest one - so we can manage to place an order. Like, that's all, there is no deeper hidden meaning in here - I'm just hoping to get a CPU on launch day because I have the rest of the PC built and waiting.


(let me put it this way - if Currys offered an extra £19 option to guarantee your order, I would happily tick that box. If spending that extra £19 on OC means we have a shot at actually getting the part, I'm happy to spend it)
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sooooooo....... you support price gouging.
 
Money isnt as important to some people.

If you are paying circa £500 for something, many see 'another' £19 as nothing. To some, that will make or break the sale. To others, they are happy to pay more to secure it, or get it faster etc.

I would pay more myself, I build a pc once every 3-5 years. I spend more than £19 on stuff I dont need because Im lazy. IE, takeaways, buying lunch because I didnt make any etc.
 
Rom said:
Money isnt as important to some people.

If you are paying circa £500 for something, many see 'another' £19 as nothing. To some, that will make or break the sale. To others, they are happy to pay more to secure it, or get it faster etc.

I would pay more myself, I build a pc once every 3-5 years. I spend more than £19 on stuff I dont need because Im lazy. IE, takeaways, buying lunch because I didnt make any etc.
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Yes, this. I've often wondered why folk are hypersensitive to extra £10-30 on computer hardware that'll last years, but will drop that much an a takeaway, or a something equally as superfluous and short term.
 
beany_bot said:
sooooooo....... you support price gouging.
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Like, I had to look up the actual definition here -

"Price gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. "

I don't think that's what's happening here at all, an increase by £19(on the 5900X) is not unreasonable or unfair. Had OC priced this CPU £100 more than anyone else then maybe we can say they are being unreasonable, but that's not the case.

"Common examples include price increases of basic necessities after natural disasters. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a crime that applies in some jurisdictions of the United States during civil emergencies. "

A CPU isn't a basic necessity for life, nor is OC the only supplier of the product abusing its position on the market to make unreasonable amount of profit - the prices differences are within the normal market variations. As @Rom said - this is the first PC I'm building in 6 years(I'm still on an i7-4790K) so in the grand scheme of things and years I am going to get out of this build, £19 is nothing.
 
Troezar said:
A combination of factors, X570 is expensive to manufacture, the pandemic, lots of people buying, rise in popularity of AMD. There are some good ones that are cheaper though. MSI Tomahawk and Unify boards are nice, Gigabyte makes some nice ones too.
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recently seen MSI x570 tomahawk wifi with some serious discount making it around £165. now that is a decent!
 
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