So.. what do I do?

[ToejaM]

I've never been in this position before, if I've ordered new parts they've always turned up, maybe taken a week with bank holidays or delays but I've never had to wait longer than that in over 20 years, never ordered anything so highly in demand before but that's no longer the case, as behind me is every piece of my new PC except the CPU.

I have a PC to game on and technically not everything is behind me, I thought maybe if I got the new GPU in I'd be happy but it's like the upgrade itch hasn't been scratched, I even put in an extra cable from the new PSU as the cherry on top after a questionable adventure on fact finding.

Two things frustrate me here, one is that it's not like I've pre-ordered something that isn't out already and secondly, there isn't even a suitably, well priced CPU that I could use in the mean time to get it up and running and while not difficult, swapping the CPU in and out is more work than a quick graphics card swap so I'm not sure I'd even do that as it would likely be a bit of a side-grade to what I have already.

My question to you all is, how would(have) YOU cope(d) in this situation? What are my options other than wallowing in self pity and staring into the abyss.

 

[ToejaM]

Assume you’re waiting for a 9800x3d?

I’d probably just start eating and drinking for Christmas

Yeah correct, going from a 9900k so it's hard to not downgrade in the meantime just to use everything or I'd probably order something else and send it back/sell it second hand! I'd love to eat and drink for Christmas but that's my birthday too so I already have a reason

Find out where the nearest stash of them are, get floor plans, a layout, anything.

Bring guns.

Then wait in the Winchester until it all blows over?

 

[ToejaM]

Do you mean the regular 7600?

tbh I wanted a PC upgrade so much I was happy to wait, it's made more painful that its pre-order because its out of stock though. A lesson learned but we're here, however the eta thread was updated with a potential order of 150-200 units coming in... so I guess we wait a little longer

 

[ToejaM]

I've read your post several times now, and I still don't really understand it,
oh, wait no, on the umpteenth time reading it, I think that I've got the jist, I think that I would recognise the situation and just wait, but grab a cheaper am5 cpu to tide me over, unless I was totally skint, then I'd just wait it out
bit daft buying the one cpu that everyone wants, but which there is very limited stock. though.

I hurt my back a while ago so there is also that I want it to be as much a one and done as possible. I've also tried to be conservative with the parts I've bought, I think I also wanna see the massive jump up without a step in between, I thought about doing the same with the GPU but I couldn't just let it sit there.

I think I'm going to just have to wallow in self pity