New shiny stuff time again. Means I can move some stuff over to another rig.
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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**
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New shiny stuff time again. Means I can move some stuff over to another rig.
Planning to build a new system as well with a 5900x and asus tuf 3080 OC. Think im going to get ASUS's new crosshair VIII dark hero x570 when its released and should support zen 3 out the box.
Its going to get expensive. New CPU/MB/RAM, New GPU 3090/6900 and a HP Reverb G2
A butterfly flapped it's wings in a secluded part of the Serengeti, which led to a 0.5 knot increase in wind speed in the South China Sea, which inadvertently knocked a seagull off the roof of the container that is currently making it's way to us, loaded with these CPUs. The subsequent burial at sea has led to a small levy on the cost of the CPUs. It didn't help that the exchange rate flickered just as the levy was being decreed.
OcUK have terrible luck when it comes to product launches.
I was contemplating posting something far more blunt than that
Caporegime
I Lol’d.A butterfly flapped it's wings in a secluded part of the Serengeti, which led to a 0.5 knot increase in wind speed in the South China Sea, which inadvertently knocked a seagull off the roof of the container that is currently making it's way to us, loaded with these CPUs. The subsequent burial at sea has led to a small levy on the cost of the CPUs. It didn't help that the exchange rate flickered just as the levy was being decreed.
OcUK have terrible luck when it comes to product launches.
Soldato
I certainly hope so.
But part of me thinks they won't care, at the end of the day it's a business as long as they get their money they won't care if 5000 are sold to individuals who will use them, or to 5000 resellers.
I also have concerns over stock levels, Gibbo said "thousands" well firstly as others have mentioned there may be a difference between how many OCUK have ordered and what they actually have in stock to sell.
And even if they do have "thousands" in stock, say two thousand? How fast does does that sell out? Five thousand? Ten thousand?
Also is it thousands of every SKU, or thousands all together? If they ordered 500 of each that's still 2000 CPUs total, but 500 of each SKU is not enough in the slightest
Soldato
Also is it thousands of every SKU, or thousands all together? If they ordered 500 of each that's still 2000 CPUs total, but 500 of each SKU is not enough in the slightest
Well exactly.
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Ok yep good shout I stand corrected
Yea, unfortunately not the smartest approach. Limiting to IP, they'll likely still sell-out, but provide a positive customer experience because my current plan is to have multiple stores open and whichever one works, gets my money.
+1
Not going to place multiple orders like some people, but definitely will try to go through checkout in multiple places and whichever succeeds gets my money. It's just business
Soldato
+1
Not going to place multiple orders like some people, but definitely will try to go through checkout in multiple places and whichever succeeds gets my money. It's just business
I mean I will probably do the same giving OCUK first dibs if you like.
I think it might get frantic though with websites crashing etc. I don't know why they can't just do a pre-order system, would make so mu h more sense?
I think they are literally forbidden by AMD from doing so, otherwise they would have done it already. It was the same thing with Nvidia, retailers were literally forbidden from taking preorders.
And yeah, sure, OC is my first choice as well, I'm hoping that the slightly higher price will mean less traffic at least in the very first minutes after ordering opens, but we'll just have to wait and see. Yesterday during 3070 launch I just kept getting 500 Access Errors or Cloudfare DDoS protection just wouldn't load at all, so who knows how it goes for Ryzen launch. I'm telling myself that there's fewer people buying these CPUs than there was buying Nvidia cards, but I really don't know anymore.
Unfortunately the e-commerce formula hasn't changed much so they're massively inefficient for high-interest preorders where you have thousands of people loading full-asset pages, and if the scalability of the code is poor and you're not hosted on a flexible platform, it's just going to fall over.
Obviously it's difficult to estimate interest and it's probably not cost-effective to build a more efficient preorder process.
AMD have specifically encouraged retailers to setup a reservation/queue system for out of stock products.
https://uk.pcmag.com/graphics-cards...om-buying-up-ryzen-5000-cpus-new-radeon-cards
It specifically mentions the queue system *after* launch[0]. No mention of preorders. I think the smoking gun here is that if preorders were allowed, Gibbo would have given us that option, and also the fact that literally no one anywhere in the UK is taking preoders which is pretty unusual.
[0] "implementing an online queue-based system so users who miss out on the launch day sales can reserve a spot to buy the product once stock becomes available again."
Soldato
£290 on ocuk for the 5600XT....
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3cc-am.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3cc-am.html
It's been this price since day 1 mate
Literally the first page of this thread has links to all of these, nothing new here