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If it said for example, 500 pieces of 5900X are available on launch day then we are receiving 500 each week after then all good. The first 500 people purchasing (in a minute) get allocated theirs then it changes to pre order or ETA, similar to buying iPhones directly.
Even some comms now would be good, on the lines of "We had only 200 on launch day, but are receiving 300 a week (or however many) so you will have yours based on queue position in x weeks
Not knowing how many they had on launch day to sell or how many they are receiving means it doenst matter if im no. 5 in the queue or 5000. If they had 1 to sell and receive 1 a month, im waiting a while! If they had 4000 and receive 1000 each week then great. 1 week wait
I'm, going to call and find out
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Not great news concerning the large official amount of stock, this is a copy and paste of the message the master distributor sent to me:
Heads up Gibbo - AMD delivery dates continue to slip on 5000 series from their latest backorder report- here is latest expected to ship in nov - 300 x 5900x PIB now with sdd date of 24/11, 60 x 5950x pib with SDD date of 20/11 , 108 x 5600x mpk with sdd date of 26/11 . sorry its a mssive pain these keep slipping
As soon as they give me another update I shall let you guys know.
It may not be a steady tap but having info like easily available helps. A competitor does not provide any such info.You make it sound like there's a tap you can turn on and it remains a steady flow. Which is not the case.
As for communication, check this post:
The price gouging on the 5950x is disgusting....Same goes for the 5900x and 5800x.
They are available for pre order elsewhere for less people, don't support this daylight robbery.
I just canceled my order for 5900 and decided not to switch from mac to PC as if what apple said about M1 is true Intel and AMD are in big trouble. I'm using my machine for development and until now Docker was a big pain running due to its volumes mapping. ARM based systems are not having this problem and M1 matching the performance of 5900 and 5950 and being much cheaper is a game changer
It may not be a steady tap but having info like easily available helps. A competitor does not provide any such info.
Initial info from OcUK was "thousands" which turned out to not be the case by the sounds of it. A notice on the product page that numbers were going to be less would have been good. Or even a forum thread that was locked with all info on 5000 series launch. That would have been great
So a certain northern based company had a delivery of 5600x's for their pre-orders today and have recieved/shipped the grand total of 30! If that's the sort of numbers we are going to get for the least popular chips I'm concered about the others!
So a certain northern based company had a delivery of 5600x's for their pre-orders today and have recieved/shipped the grand total of 30! If that's the sort of numbers we are going to get for the least popular chips I'm concered about the others!
Another competitor cleared all stock in minutes due to 10,000 people attempting to purchase...Anyone order a 5800x from the "other" store and if so what time? I think their site broke and has put me at the back of the queue, unless they really did clear all stock in under 10 minutes....
I can't even get them to be honest about their queue system keeling over right now. I don't mind waiting, but I won't tolerate being lied to.
I just canceled my order for 5900 and decided not to switch from mac to PC as if what apple said about M1 is true Intel and AMD are in big trouble. I'm using my machine for development and until now Docker was a big pain running due to its volumes mapping. ARM based systems are not having this problem and M1 matching the performance of 5900 and 5950 and being much cheaper is a game changer
I have over the past couple of days thought about binning off all my orders & doing my new build with the 7700k hardware I already have.
Yes its only 4 cores @ 5ghz, but it works & does the job.
However I, like a lot of people here don't build a new PC just for generic usage but for the fun of it & as a hobby.
I wanted to move to an AMD CPU purely as I'd not used one for nearly 20 years, plus the performance of the 5950 sounded excellent.
I have 2x CPUs on order, plus the build items already received I have best part of £3k invested in my hobby, & I'm sure I am not the only one who thinks this way.
Which is why so many people are so annoyed with how the recent hardware launches have gone.
Something needs to change, unfortunately I don't things will as we as consumers are treated as we will put up with anything just to get the end product.
Having been a PC enthusiast & built PCs for 35 years so I'm sure the rose tinted specs are on, but things were better back in the day.
Seems after these initial stock runs, there is going to be a sizable delay. Some people are getting estimates for Q1 2021.