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The 5800 is a great CPU, but the non-existent 5700, 5700x and 5800 all would have been much better value, and for that I will always hate it.
At $450, the jump to the 5900x and its 12 cores is relatively small (+$100), and I'm almost certain that was AMD's intent.
IMO, msrp should have been $400 (even if it sold for more because of supply v demand issues).
Also- as a Zen 3 owner, if I were in the market to build a new pc and didn't already have a compatible zen 3 motherboard, I'd be real tempted to go Intel right now. Gen 10 prices are pretty damn good and a total system build price would likely be lower than comparable quality AMD. Similar-enough performance and readily available. If you don't mind the 2x power usage
edited to fix a mistake about the 5800x's msrp
Once properly setup, this thing is a beast and runs much cooler than Intel.
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Overclocking the ryzen CPUs (any of them) is going to give marginal / minimal gains. Put ryzens on the precision boost overdrive and leave them - you won't get much of any real life benefit by doing a manual overclock except slightly higher synthetic benchmarks and much higher temperatures.
Overall, the 5800x is slightly worse price to performance but that's just because of the price per core - not the actual performance per core. On that basis - its actually the best of the three. In many applications that only use up to 8 cores - the 5800x actually bests the 5900x. (For instance, photoshop: https://www.pugetsystem
i also wanted to add that since you don't know how long you'd be sitting on your components for, there are a couple downsides - prices may go down or new components may show up, and you may be sitting on brand new components that may be defective without you knowing. return window will close fast and you'd have to go through warranty.
Microcenter has become a scalper. They are currently listing the 5900x with an MSRP of $799 and are offering at a "sale" price of $699. They used to sell this cpu at the right MSRP of $549 just a few weeks ago.
So I think that was a good upgrade for the money.
Gpu on the other hand, I might have to wait a year or 2 to get msrp values.
i'm not defending MC's behavior, but we're simply exhibiting the basic economic concept. this differs from the individual scalpers you see on ebay in that corporations have reputations to protect and financial targets to hit, so they're not as driven by pure greed as some individuals. you'll see that, for example, the 11600k is priced below msrp and it's only been out a month. that's because everyone wants the hot zen 3 chips and not the stale intel ones.
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i'm not defending MC's behavior, but we're simply exhibiting the basic economic concept. this differs from the individual scalpers you see on ebay in that corporations have reputations to protect and financial targets to hit, so they're not as driven by pure greed as some individuals. you'll see that, for example, the 11600k is priced below msrp and it's only been out a month. that's because everyone wants the hot zen 3 chips and not the stale intel ones.
I respectfully disagree with you. What mc is doing is worse than scalers. Hear me out.
Mc buys the cpu for less than the $549 price. They make a profit when they sell the cpu at MSRP. Anything they charge over the MSRP is additional profit per cpu. If their cost went up due to supply and demand, I would understand the price increase, but this is not the case. They are just taking advantage of a bad situation for their customers to line their pockets. Isn't it price gouging when you increase your price when your cost has not increased? This is greed.
They are making a lot more money than scalpers because they pay less than 549 to buy the cpu and get to deduct their business costs. The scalpers buy at MSRP and markup the price, but they have to pay eBay and PayPal a cut.
The part that really bugs me is the random price they are passing as the regular price. It's not ethical to mark up a random number for the price of an item and give a discount off of that price to make customers think they are getting a good deal.
Mc buys the cpu for less than the $549 price. They make a profit when they sell the cpu at MSRP. Anything they charge over the MSRP is additional profit per cpu. If their cost went up due to supply and demand, I would understand the price increase, but this is not the case. They are just taking advantage of a bad situation for their customers to line their pockets. Isn't it price gouging when you increase your price when your cost has not increased? This is greed.
They are making a lot more money than scalpers because they pay less than 549 to buy the cpu and get to deduct their business costs. The scalpers buy at MSRP and markup the price, but they have to pay eBay and PayPal a cut.
The part that really bugs me is the random price they are passing as the regular price. It's not ethical to mark up a random number for the price of an item and give a discount off of that price to make customers think they are getting a good deal.
5900x back to $549.99 on microcenter website must of got contacted by AMD.
The 5800 is a great CPU, but the non-existent 5700, 5700x and 5800 all would have been much better value, and for that I will always hate it.
At $450, the jump to the 5900x and its 12 cores is relatively small (+$100), and I'm almost certain that was AMD's intent.
IMO, msrp should have been $400 (even if it sold for more because of supply v demand issues).
Also- as a Zen 3 owner, if I were in the market to build a new pc and didn't already have a compatible zen 3 motherboard, I'd be real tempted to go Intel right now. Gen 10 prices are pretty damn good and a total system build price would likely be lower than comparable quality AMD. Similar-enough performance and readily available. If you don't mind the 2x power usage
edited to fix a mistake about the 5800x's msrp
I'm coming from a 3D rendering usage for these.
GPU won't be instock at this rate for at least another year Crypto still going up and each 3000 series GPU pays for itself in few months.
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