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what??? are you talking to us from the past, like year 2000 ? I just upgraded my BIOS last week. The effort was: 1 file upload to USB flash, 1 insert into USB port. 2 keypresses of RETURN key on the keyboard. And 5 minutes of waiting.
He stated replacing the CPU and upgrading the bios was more time consuming than swapping a GPU. And he is correct, but it still only takes a marginal amount of time.
Dang, you has to use a usb drive? I just downloaded the file to local disk and used that!
man if i had the cash i'd be all over a 5800X. it has all 8 cores on one physical die. not 2 seperate 6core dies (each w/ 2 defective cores) that have to communicate through a bus.I've been able to get a 5800x for awhile, but couldn't pull the trigger on spending 480 for it. The unicorn 5900x has been nigh impossible to even see in stock online. Even with discord running i'm lucky if I even see the thing. After all this I've decided on waiting for ddr5 platforms. My poor tired 3900xwill have to suffice until then.
Yeah, B&H put pre-orders up the night before. I got my confirmation email Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 11:53 PM PST.
And believe it or not I did not use any notification discords/app/etc. I was just randomly on their site looking for something completely unrelated when I stumbled on their store and saw 5900X and 5950X in stock. Speak of being lucky.That's awesome. Maybe one day soon I can get one
i've given up as well, geez six months since the announcement and still stock issues, c'mon AMD
The lower end models are pretty available. Microcenter Rockville has had 25+ on the 5600x available for 3 days now. Worst case, buy in now with a 5600x and upgrade later to a 5900 or 5950 later.
Don't expect it to get better. AMD is spread too thin with their fab allocation. CPUs, GPUs and console is a lot. It is no wonder Nvidia went with Samsung. There would be hardly any 30xx card out there is they waited on TSMC.
which store?
westmont
I may have to drive over there after work today. I notice they have a ton of 5600X's in stock but no 5900/5950's on their website. Looking to migrate away from my semi-broken eGPU setup with my Macbook Pro. I noticed they dropped the price on the 10850K to $330 with a motherboard, and am waffling between a cheaper space heater (10850K) and having 16cores/32threads with the 5950X.
guy says, some of these hard to get items they show out of stock because of people who drive for a couple of hours to get to microcenter and are pissed if then the item is sold out by the time they get there,
I'll never understand why Best Buy is selling the new gear "online only" at MSRP. Retail is all about foot traffic.
any luck?
It like my MC is the red headed step child of MC. I only seen 1 5909x and a few small drops of 5950x at my Parkville MC. The Rockville one hasn't been much better but I haven't kept a close eye on it since it too far to drive for me.
I ended up picking up a 5900X. They had a ton in stock. I didn't think the extra $250 they are charging for the 5950X is worth it (to me) at this point. The Chicago MC also have 25+ listed on their website too.
Sum Ting Wong
Tustin MC has been showing 25+ 5900 and 25+ 5950x all day as of this writing.
Mine is made in Malaysia, diffused in Taiwan and USA.
