I was just looking around on PLE and noticed the price on the 7000 series are on special and the 7950x appears to be the cheapest around in stock in WA.
Sale runs until promotion stock is exhausted.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU $929 (Was $1139) + Delivery ($0 MEL/WA C&C) @ PLE
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LMrGaZZa on 19/11/2022 - 23:21 ple.com.au (926 clicks)
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Last edited 22/11/2022 - 19:48 by 2 other users
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^ this
HODL
Not even 2 months in and this CPU is only ~200 bucks more than its predecessor (5950x) all time low. This shows how much expensive the AM5 motherboard price is for retailers to lower the CPU price instead.
Americans can get 32GB of DDR5 ram with their Zan 4 CPUs, and US$50 off motherboards. That is a cracking deal.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/652681/amd-ryzen-9-7950x…
China also recently got 20%+ price reductions for Singles Day.
Hopefully we can get deals something like those soon. This one shows things are going in the right direction!
I'm not even building a system right now and I find this recent spree of CPU deals titillating. My strange addiction.
haha i know right, I have a 5900x and its tempting me
I couldn't hold back temptation (had 5900x)… Ended up 13900k. Will upgrade again when amd releases new socket …
What do you do with the old equipment? Lots of people use eBay but also say they charge nearly 20% commission!?
New socket is the downside. You also can’t get boards with DDR4 on AM5 so you need new ram. Might be cheaper to upgrade to intel 13th gen since you can get a DDR4 board.
and AMD wonder why people weren't buying at launch?
IF WE WAIT..THEY WILL DROP!! Or something along those lines
TBH if you can actually make use of the extra cores in the 7950X over the 7900X and it's not just about epeen, the difference in price between the 7950X over all other Zen 4 models makes the extra cores the best value cores of any current platform, even at full retail. Dropping the price this far makes it an absolute no-brainer, IMO.
Also, if you don't need the PCIe 5.0 16x slot for future graphics (ie the 'E' series motherboards) nor the extended channels of the second Promontory 21 chip (which loses you 8 lanes resulting in fewer USB and SATA ports), pairing Zen 4 with a B650 option (which can now be had for sub-$400) and 32GB of RAM really isn't the ridiculously expensive proposition it was with full retail Ryzen 7000 and X670E options where $1,200 was an entry level board. The fact that there's an early adopter tax is hardly new, but you'd think the way people have been carrying on the last three months that Zen 4 was designed for the exclusive access of billionaires. Happily, prices have adjusted possibly more rapidly than any previous years, partly thanks to strong competition from Intel, partly thanks to the poor global economic outlook curbing any potential desire to indulge in profiteering in the current climate, and partly thanks to the fact that this is AMD, who have historically demonstrated themselves to be far more open to pricing adjustments than Intel, who have been known to doggedly stick to the original retail price up to two years after launch.
I'm just looking forward to having my first actual PC in a decade, after running on a series of Xeon workstations that have never really played nice with consumer OS and drivers (particularly when paired with aftermarket consumer graphics cards). Sticking to RDIMMs for stability is somewhat undermined by wobbly graphics drivers that were never designed nor tested for your architecture, so hopefully I won't draw the short straw and get a dodgy RAM module this time around…
I just pulled the trigger and bought one.
A lot of retailers have already started their early black friday sales, yet most 7950X are still $1100+. Even if one of them does beat this price, I doubt it will be by much.Now, I just need a Black Friday miracle on the motherboard…
I've been watching AM5 motherboard prices closely and they're not budging at all recently. Memory is at least.
That's because most of the B650 boards are yet to be released. Lots of releases coming between the 9th and 13th of Dec, so keep an eye out.
Would recommend checking Computer Alliance eBay as well, as there is a targeted code which will bring the price down to $899 and you can stack with discounted giftcards.
So tough to decide whether to wait for Black Friday… the recent frequent price drops on them have been making me think there's still some room to go down further :S