And what kind of insight do you have into AMD's yield?
If you haven't noticed, there's a global pandemic going on. International shipping isn't what it normally is. Shit, I can only send post to a select few countries from Taiwan, the US is one of them, but not to Hawaii.
But yeah, AMD has their own planes and ships with AMD staff operating them, so AMD will make sure you get your CPU on time
I hope you'll do a 1:1 comparison when Intel launches their next CPU in a few months.
What kind of insight do you have?
It's obvious and a known fact that the more complex a processor is, the lower the yield, hence the availability of lower core count processors will be much higher than that of the flagship processors.
Yes, I don't live in a vacuum, I am a health care provider in the country with the most coronavirus cases in the world, with a family to support and I have never stopped working and seeing patients, so don't you come and try to make me look like a pampered snob posting from his parent's basement. I actually find that insulting.
And btw, yes, when, and if I feel the need to buy intel in the future, and they botch a launch like Nvidia and AMD have in the past couple of months, I will call them out for it.
Fact is, the halo processors sold out in seconds, I had in my cart both a 5950x at newegg and a 5900x at Bestbuy as soon as they became available, only for them to vanish in the 20 seconds or so it took to get through the checkout process, Amazon listings showed out of stock as soon as they went live, and I'm not falling for B&H bait and switch with their pre-orders...
So quit making up excuses for AMD, fact is stock was super limited, blame it on the current world crisis all you want, but people called out other companies for the same exact reason before, and they deserve no better.
I'm not trying to pick a fight here, just stating the facts in regards to my experience with this launch, and once again, I hope the stock situation improves soon, I congratulate everyone who waited in line or was able to snatch a processor in the extremely short window of availability.
So there you go, call it a first world problem all you want, but fact is, this is another botched launch in 2020, yes, the world is a much different place now than it was just a year ago, and we can only hope things will start improving once we get over this stupid pandemic, in the meantime, we can only wait and use this forum to voice our opinion.
may choose to skip this upgrade because I had a buyer on hand for my 3800x - but now I may just wait and se what 2021 brings
