229us.........what a thiefs with old tech
The same troll from VideoCardz who is not able to understand the limited offer of a SKU for local buyers.
Not only US-exclusive, but store-exclusive? What a shame, the 5600X3D had potential to be an absolute banger in the third world.
There is no shame. It's an offer for local buyers in the home country, which is great. It's very limited offer, completely pointless to go global.
AMD only has a handful of those lower yield chips. This is because the yields for Zen 3 chiplets were very high indeed. Once you understand this, you have no problem in understanding this local and limited offer. Pretty simple.
Rather the opposite I'd say; with so few buying AMD's latest CPUs and GPUs due to the company's greed in pricing them at stupid levels, they're facing a revenue hole. And what better way to fill that hole with previous-generation die-harvested chips?
This is nonsense and very cynical take on local and limited product. Selling a few hundred or a few thousand lower binned chips is not going to make AMD any richer. Absurd reasoning. There is no reason to make more e-waste from a handful of chips that did not meet spec for frequency of have one non-functional core. It's great for local buyers to have another option in their Microcenter shops should they wish to make one-off simple upgrade. Besides, Microcenter always has bundled offers, so this limited offer will sell out fast.
Exactly, that makes it nearly double the cost of the 5600X and more expensive than the 5800X! Only idiots would pay that much for an obsolete CPU, but there are a lot of those on these forums.
Another nonsense. 5600X costs ~$150 on Newegg and in Microcenter, so it's not "nearly double". You will need to be more humble in how you brand buyers who may find this chip interesting for them and not use derogatory labels against consumers. It says more about you than about buyers of this chip. Allow people to make their own choices. Many have older systems that could benefit ftom one-off upgrade or a bundle that Microcenter will surely offer. It's a no brainer offer for those who might need it.
Microcenter exclusive, wow. Guess they had a lot less to get rid of after all.
Exactly. This just shows how high yield 5800X3D chips had. Once one understrands this, this limited offer becomes completely logical.
Instead of doing good by emergent markets and low income countries, they just release these to wealthy Americans who already have the cheapest hardware in the world and don't need shortcuts like this.
Lovely, AMD really, really has its priorities straight lately
What kind of nonsense is this? There are millions of chips being sold in lower income countries. Plus, there are alarmingly growing pockets of unwealthy Americans. Go and read latest research and remind yourself of gigantic food queues of expensive vehicules bought on credit during Covid. This is a limited offer for local buyers. It's really simple. No point in exporting such chips when it will sell out quickly.
Either way, not sure I would want a CPU born out of the reject bin.
My 5900X might well be "rejected" 5950X. Guess what? It just works.
Agreed. The microcenter in my area has already incentivized most of the Zen 1 and Zen 2 holdouts with the $120 5600 and the $150 5700 non X.
It's like the last store on the planet that needs help incentivizing holdouts.
This offer is not comparable with other mainstream chips. It's a limited number of chips, not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
