Any idea how much the 3900 not X is going for?

[Ranma_Sao]

I just had a PC built for my wife, was going to do a Ryzen 5 for her, and they had a free upgrade to the ryzen 3900 non X for the same price. (Which kinda tells me they must be pretty cheap, and yet I can't find a reseller anywhere)

 

[BinarySynapse]

It’s an OEM part.

 

[Ranma_Sao]

Yes, I used to buy OEM parts all the time from resellers, and yet, all my usual resellers of OEM don't seem to be stocking them.

 

[BinarySynapse]

Yes, I used to buy OEM parts all the time from resellers, and yet, all my usual resellers of OEM don't seem to be stocking them.

There's retail OEM (bare parts, limited support, etc), and then there's OEM channel where you're not going to have access to the part unless you have a contract for them or they start showing up on eBay.

 

[Zedicus]

for some reason ryzen tray cost has always been a fair bit higher than MSRP of boxed CPU's. i THINK this is to discourage them ending up in retail channels. and i am sure that if you were HP looking to by trays by the pallet, it is contract pricing so tray cost is moot to them. right now the tray cost of a 3900 is 517$. (still not comparable, who knows what the vendor you got your CPU from paid for a tray of 3900s. and street price of a tray CPU is almost a random number)

 

[Ranma_Sao]

Cool, I haven't had a computer store in almost 20 years, but try to keep my head in the game. If I could have found a 3900 no X, for cheap, I would have bought one for my 1800X rig. Thank you for explaining it to me Zedicus, that makes sense.