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Processor | Ryzen 5 5700x |
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Motherboard | B550 Elite |
Cooling | Thermalright Perless Assassin 120 SE |
Memory | 32GB Fury Beast DDR4 3200Mhz |
Video Card(s) | Gigabyte 3060 ti gaming oc pro |
Storage | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB, WD SN850x 1TB, plus some random HDDs |
Display(s) | LG 27gp850 1440p 165Hz 27'' |
Case | Lian Li Lancool II performance |
Power Supply | MSI 750w |
Mouse | G502 |
But that's the thing - at least in EU there was no "clearing of Ampere stock". After the fall of crypto in April 2022 the very high prices in shops persisted for a very long time. We have read about "plummeting prices" in tech sites, but they hardly materialized. For instance RTX 3080 10GB with MSRP of $699 or about 840 EUR in Germany was available for about that price only after RTX 4090 was launched. And when the RTX 4080 launched, prices of 3080 were slowly beginning to rise. So there was no "clearing" - I doubt that buyers jumped on an extremely inviting price of MSRP two years after the launch? And now they are mostly gone? Something's fishy, and it looks like dissapearing GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti back in 2020 when Nvidia had problem selling RTX 2080.
They were discounted and in the stock in the US. EU had insane pricings in comparison so probably no retailer wanted to stock up on them and never had any excess inventory problem. I know the biggest stores in my country always had all the cards for sale but they never really had much on stock, it was always "avaiable on x date" so they were buying only as needed.