WYP
News Guru
This is equivalent to a UK price of around £270 including VAT.
Read more about AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X being reduced to $299.99 in the US.
Read more about AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X being reduced to $299.99 in the US.
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X has been reduced to $299 in the US - A $150 price cut
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Damn that's a big price cut. They must be worried about alder lake
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
But it's just Micro Center. Have AMD themselves actually officially reduced prices? If they haven't, maybe they aren't that worried about Alder Lake.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Ooo might bag one of these soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7daXdbDsI
That will explain it. I know, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, but watch it any way. Very interesting. Bottom line is? once the price drops on an item and people see it for that price? you're done. That item will then need to be sold at that price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7daXdbDsI
That will explain it. I know, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, but watch it any way. Very interesting. Bottom line is? once the price drops on an item and people see it for that price? you're done. That item will then need to be sold at that price.
Not really. Micro Center undercuts the rest of the stores regularly. That has never caused a global US price drop on products.
That's not to say that Ryzen prices won't drop, but so far the price on Amazon and Newegg is less than $10 below to the previous price (before Alder Lake release).
AlienALX
Well-known member
Well put it this way. I am not paying more than that for one now. Mostly because it just isn't worth it.
Price drops are inevitable.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Well given it has had a £70 price drop overnight to £340 then yes, I would say that I will get one for £270. Thankfully I've always been patient.
That said I think I may wait for the 5950x to come down some, then buy that. Take the 3950x out of my main rig and put it in my other one, double upgrade for one price.
BTW that is not the UK equivalent. You forget - the UK pays 20% VAT. These taxes are added in before advertising. Prices you see in the USA are before state tax, which varies. So it's not $299.
AlienALX
Well-known member
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-Ryzen-...XC5W2,B06XNRQHG4&srpt=COMPUTER_PROCESSOR&th=1
Has dropped. Depends what CPU you are after.
Has dropped. Depends what CPU you are after.
LePhuronn
New member
There won't be any significant Ryzen 5000 price drops until Intel releases the H and B series 600 boards. 12th Gen CPUs may be cheaper than Ryzen 5000, but an actual 12th Gen system costs a lot more than a Ryzen 5000 system. Net result is Ryzen 5000 is still cheaper, and there's still a refresh coming which will reclaim some of that performance gap.
When you can build a 12600K system for about the same money as a 5600X system, AMD will drop prices.
When you can build a 12600K system for about the same money as a 5600X system, AMD will drop prices.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I'd agree, if it weren't for the quite glaring issues AL has at the moment. The ones where about 30 games won't work unless you disable the E cores (Denuvo) and the others where you have to use Win 11 because certain games won't even launch, and M$ have made it clear they won't be fixing this in Win 10 until 2022.
So not only do you need to adopt this new tech and become a beta tester but you also need to adopt a new OS, and same. Seen a few issues with XMP on DDR5 too, and etc.
Now I am sure that Intel will sort this out faster than AMD sorted Ryzen, but for all of those who just want a hassle free experience? I will stick to AMD. Been burned too many times in the past. That is why I did not go near Ryzen until 3rd gen. Because it had issues, BIOS issues, memory issues and etc etc.
I'm not a beta tester who pays any more.
Hence for right now I will fish for a 5950x soon, take the 3950x out of my rig at my home home and bring it here to my mother's and whack it in here.
