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I wonder what it is, is it the price of the CPU? or is the price of the available motherboards? The price of the CPU looks similar to what the price of the 5000 were when they came out.
Mr. JP wants to depress the economy and he is succeeding, this is an optional purchase for most Zen 3 users, I may have impulse bought but seeing the red in my portfolio daily doesn't make me wanna spend money on frivolous extras, just my $0.02.
The CPUs are probably $50-100 overpriced relative to raptor lake across the product stack based on current assumptions. I think the x670 motherboards are priced fairly well given the high-end specs, and are as low as $260. DDR5 is expensive but prices are dropping quickly, as evidenced by mircocenter being able to throw in 32GB for free on launch.
This. I went through my inventory and the ~only~ possible place it'd be enough of a difference was my x399 box - same core count, faster, but with fewer PCIE lanes means I MUST buy a motherboard with 10G on it. And that raises the price to the point that the improvement... isn't worth it, really. Not yet. It's not really a replacement for my other HEDT boxes, and my x570/Z490 boxes don't need upgrades right now given their current use.
It's the all-in (total cost) of CPU, MB, DDR5. And in a time when the market is already heavily saturated by excellent hardware that's barely slower.
Hell, I am still on Rocket Lake. I have no reason to upgrade.
You have to move tech forward at one point.
Apparently 7950x sales are about normal for that level while the rest is abysal, which could point in part to the motherboards making sense for the high end but not for the 7600-7700 buyer, 5xxx being a drop in for so many people after years of the socket being around must have helped them quite a bit (same for how solid the motherboard offer was by then).
It's a loss leader strategy - they will take a loss or near-zero profit on a deal on a CPU, and expect to make a profit from that person buying other parts for the rest of their build. There is no other chain of stores in the US that have a full stock of all types of computer parts - Best Buy isn't even close, Fry's used to be similar and used the same kind of aggressive pricing on CPUs.
And you really dont realize how wonderful it is until one leaves, then you become a bitter person whenever you see a fantastic "in store only" deal pops up... well at least that is what I've heard not speaking from experience or anything
True dat! They do a good job on the important things that I don’t mind going to the store. Although I’ve been lucky enough to have one within 30mins of me…
I don't get how they can offer such deals. They are losing money on this deal big and time. I always believed PC hardware had pretty thin margins to begin with. Like even you built a entire new system it wouldn't cover the loss on deals like this.
They ahve been scalping ddr5 the entire time and it's actually just pennies to produce.
"They" have been? Were they charging any different than Newegg or Amazon? They are literally giving away DDR5 as we speak.
I mean the market at large in a sarcastic manner has been scalping ddr5 the entire time thusly can afford to give the what is at heart cheap memory away free. is what i meant.
