Paper Launch for AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

You might look into where the 'real money' is before excluding laptops from that classification.

Agree. In the enthusiast space and workstation/creator space, desktop is king for obvious reasons. But in terms of volume sales, laptops are where it's at. Furthermore, Zen's strengths play into a corporate machine pretty well. Zen is excellent at raw number crunching and multitasking. So if you are doing spreadsheet work, large-scale data entry/maintenance, or using resource hogs like Power BI (ick, but still very common)... an 8 core Zen 2 mobile product would be excellent!

Furthermore, a low-end gaming/media laptop based around Zen 2 + integrated Navi die on the chip would be a great seller too, I think. Better than the current APU designs, anyway.

AMD shouldn't be ignoring this market, IMHO. I may have gone Zen for my desktop, but I went Intel for my laptop.
 
I still haven't seen it in stock anywhere locally. Glad I bought that 3700x when I did and didn't waste any more time waiting.
 
much easier to find at brick and morter stores than trying to beat the bots online. If physical location is an option for you, definitely take a long lunch or come in late to work on delivery day :)
 
Well grabbed one locally on an impulse buy, wife has to stop letting me out of the house alone. No clue what I am going to do with it though... Feels more like a why not?

In all honesty, when the ASRock X470D4U 2T drops to correct price ill grab it and replace my dual 2650s, till then I will replace the 2700x and game with it...
 
AMD Canada is telling the big suppliers here Sept 15’th. So not too much longer I hope.
 
Still short supply so folks are taking advantage of it. Its usually the 3rd party reseller douchebags at amazon and newegg that jack it up to ridiculous levels. Try to catch the sold and shipped by amazon/newegg listings to get the normal price.

B&h has the 499 but theres no telling when they will have any in stock.
Bestbuy is the same.
It seems they still cant keep them supplied very well. You might try microcenter tomorrow.
 
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B&h has the 499 but theres no telling when they will have any in stock.

I preordered from B&H on Aug 19 but still nothing. I wonder if AMD has been making any shipments in the last month or if there was a manufacturing issue they're keeping under wraps. I know they've popped up once or twice at Bestbuy and Newegg, but those sold out fast enough it could have been remnants of the first batch.
 
Thats a long wait Epos7. I would give up on b&h. Tbh im really surprised at the continued lack of 3900x stock. I thought for sure there would be plenty to go around by now.

Just saw this article at tpu :(

https://www.techpowerup.com/259289/...-threefold-could-hit-amd-product-availability

Hopefully it isnt going to effect current orders too significantly.

Well dang, maybe that explains the long wait. Most retailers seem to be indicating they expect more stock in early to mid October, at least my pre order should have reserved one from that shipment.
 
Well dang, maybe that explains the long wait. Most retailers seem to be indicating they expect more stock in early to mid October, at least my pre order should have reserved one from that shipment.

Has B&H shipped any 3900x CPUs since launch? I remember putting myself on the list, but I canceled after finding one via nowinstock.net.
 
I could have told you this would happen. It did when Intel released the 8700k (3 months until initial demand satisfied) and the 9900k (6 months until initial demand satisfied). And that was just larger die sizes on the same established process tech!

Considering the simultaneous launch of Ryzen 2/EPYC 7000-series, Navi and Iphone 11 on the exact same TSMC process node, availability will be limited for the next 6 months.

AMD has to prioritize the highest volumes (to fulfill OEM orders), so the 3900x will be lower in priority than the single-chiplet products.
 
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