AMD's Zen CPUs are rumoured to release on January 17th

[Doomslayer]

I get what you're saying but I doubt the retailers are going to put an extra hundred or so on top purely for giggles, Maybe $50 or so but I can't see more than that.

Time will tell though

I can see them doing it, They have done it before and they will do it again, cause they want to make as much profit as much as they can.

I can see them trying to jack the price up here, Have you not seen the price that retailers charge here.

 

[Dicehunter]

I can see them doing it, They have done it before and they will do it again, cause they want to make as much profit as much as they can.

I can see them trying to jack the price up here, Have you not seen the price that retailers charge here.

Mate of mine lives in Melbourne and tells me of the horror stories of your prices, I'd rather move country, That and everything wants to kill you and eat you ^_^

 

[Doomslayer]

Mate of mine lives in Melbourne and tells me of the horror stories of your prices, I'd rather move country, That and everything wants to kill you and eat you ^_^

I know, it's not cheap to move countries :lol:

TBH if i had the money to move i would think about moving to Iceland.

 

[Dicehunter]

I know, it's not cheap to move countries :lol:

TBH if i had the money to move i would think about moving to Iceland.

No spiders or poisonous crap that wants to eat your face off ^_^

 

[NeverBackDown]

No spiders or poisonous crap that wants to eat your face off ^_^

And low population so no human interaction.. sounds like a plus lol

 

[Dicehunter]

And low population so no human interaction.. sounds like a plus lol

Oh that would be the cherry on the cake ^_^

 

[Daiyus]

Oh that would be the cherry on the cake ^_^

And this is why I feel so comfortable here...

 

[Warchild]

The biggest problem pricing wise right now is the fluctuating global market economies.

If currencies crash, which they are (thank you trump) then you will see the cost of CPU going up due to import costs. Analysts have stated this is temporary so the currencies will bounce back. What you wont see however is retailers dropping the prices of the CPU once again to reflect their stronger currency. I have seen this many times at overclockers.co.uk and my local store digitalimpuls.no. When the Nok gained against the dollar, all prices stayed high.

Hopefully things are stable by the time the Zen is released or we may see high costs above the RRP.

 

[AlienALX]

I can see a tiny amount of gouging but I think AMD will stamp it out like they did with the RX 480. Let's face it, the market is absolutely flooded with spectacular CPUs already. AMD are releasing something that you can already get (the 5960x) so if retailers take the pee then they just won't sell. People will just say "I knew it, (AMD are the devil's breath" etc) and buy Intel.

It's a juggle man. When the RX 480 launched it sold well because it was cheaper than any card at that performance bracket before. If they had gouged when the 970 dropped in price people would have just bought that but I saw far more people buying 480s.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

SIGH.....why do people not understand what i'm trying to say.

What i'm trying to say is.

The price of "$300" is what AMD wants retailers wants them to charge for it, But i can't see "The Retailers" only charging "$300" for it when they themselves want some profit from it so they will bump the price up to like "$50-100" more. Look at waht Nvidia did with the 10 series of GPU's said it was this price & the retailers charge an higher amount, I'm not blaming AMD for the price i'm blaming the retailers cause there going to be jacking the price like to like $350-400 dollars.

with the $500 amount i'm talking about Australian pricing cause we always pay more here, If AMD says to retailers here you charge $400 but they will jack the pricing up to to almost $500.00.

I still stand bye what i said i just can't see it equalling to the latest CPU from intel atm intel is always going to be one gen in front unless intel somehow stuffs up with the next 2 launches if i'm wrong i'm wrong.

Everyone hyped up the 400 series GPU's maybe not here as much as other forums but people did and a lot of people were disappointed maybe people should just wait until 3rd parties get there hands on them and test and once there results come out and it's as good as what AMD has said and then hype the you know what out of it.

I'm sorry I didn't understand your point.

In Ireland parts are also unrealistically priced compared to the RRP. Intel's CPU's suffer from this markup as well so the point I made still stands, even though it was misplaced against your comment. If retailers upcharge as you say they will for Zen, they will do the same for Intel, no? Skylake cost more than than the RRP at launch here in Ireland, but it dropped after a couple of months—and it still remains overpriced. What's to say retailers won't do the same with Zen? As stated, prices dropped for the RX 480 as time passed. The 1080 and 1070 prices dropped too.

I know, it's not cheap to move countries :lol:

TBH if i had the money to move i would think about moving to Iceland.

A lot of my friends moved to Australia because they couldn't afford to live here in Ireland. Tradesmen and engineers were all out of work. They moved to Australia and never looked back.

 

[Doomslayer]

I'm sorry I didn't understand your point.

In Ireland parts are also unrealistically priced compared to the RRP. Intel's CPU's suffer from this markup as well so the point I made still stands, even though it was misplaced against your comment. If retailers upcharge as you say they will for Zen, they will do the same for Intel, no? Skylake cost more than than the RRP at launch here in Ireland, but it dropped after a couple of months—and it still remains overpriced. What's to say retailers won't do the same with Zen? As stated, prices dropped for the RX 480 as time passed. The 1080 and 1070 prices dropped too.

Most of the big ticket items like Motherboards, CPU's GPU's they all do it the retailers and yes Intel does it too.