Asus Says Intel CPU Shortage Will Continue, but Not for Gaming PCs

The world never changes: even when there's no bread for the poor, there's still cake for the rich.

 

Perhaps we should let them [also] eat cake? Seems someone said that somewhere, sometime.

 

Mmmmm, Intel chips and dip.

 

Yeah. They are close to frying themselves straight out of the box these days.

 

Well then if they're saying the shortage's effects on the gaming PC business "has seen little impact from the CPU shortfalls," then they need to explain how come a couple of weeks ago the i9-9900K was $580 (which was already excessive at that price) only for it hike up to damn near $900 this week (as of today on Newegg)... What's worse is that the price is almost double MSRP. Intel's a freaking joke to buy into at this point, and my next build will definitely be w/ an AMD motherboard.

 

Um Yeah, AMD has this covered and more.

 

here i thought i was caring.. then realized.. it was just gas.. and it passed.

 

Or cover them with Velveta and watch it melt.

Hmm, cheese is probably not conductive. A cheese-cooled PC: could that be a thing?
Or an Intel-powered PC-and-fondue-pot hybrid. Give me that and a case of chips, I'd be happy.
And fat. Very fat.

 

Newegg is selling the 9900K for $570. It's just sold out.


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAFXN8D92370

Newegg has no control over what 3rd party sellers do. Same with Amazon.

Intel does not have a MSRP. They have RCP, which is how much direct customers are charged on orders of 1,000 units. That price is $488 - $499.

 

Its crazy to me that when you check Ebay's sold listings of 9900k chips that some people are paying upwards of $900 for them. $750 on average.

That's nuts

 

But it's still priced at $850 on Newegg though, so miss me w/ the BS

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...900k-finally-available-at-eye-watering-prices

 

At no point has the price ever gone over $579.99 on Newegg.


You know who HIDevolution and GigaParts are? They don't even sell processors, but they take advantage of their status as builders to buy PC parts that are in high demand at bulk discount and then push them onto people who don't know any better. These predators did the same thing with recent video card launches, which once again they don't even sell these parts individually through their own business.

 

The 7900X, Skylake X 10 core cpu, is in stock and going for $920 right now. Why would anyone pay $900 for 2 less cores, 30 less PCIE lanes, dual channel memory, etc. etc. I can't even wrap my head around it.

I'm running a 7900X myself right now, and despite all the hiccups on release, it's been a pretty dang good chip.

 

Well then, it's a good thing AMD is at the top of their game again.

 

Why would anyone buy an intel CPU when they haven't even fixed their hardware security vulnerabilities.... Sure I love paying a premium on a product that is going to have its performance bitch slapped by the software 'patches' preventing it from even performing at advertised levels..... And those patches don't even fix all of the vulnerabilities, so you may get hit with another performance drop if they can even patch the rest with software.......