twitter.com/EVGA_JacobF/status/1365493846524661764
Was that a lie or what?
Has anyone from EU received notification?

Lol I saw that and honestly entry cpu price is in the thousands if I remember right

CptT95
Lol I saw that and honestly entry cpu price is in the thousands if I remember right

That's exactly why I wouldn't use it, all the W3475-type CPUs are heckin' expensive :-D I haven't paid anywhere near $1k for a CPU since the days of the QX6950 (Might be misremembering model #, it was the Extreme Edition for the Q6600-SKUs of CPUs from Intel), and that I got used so it wasn't full price, way back then.  After my experience with that thing being meh, I decided then and there to not go top of the line on big-socket chips ever again.  2600K was great, 3930K was great, and this 9900K has been pretty swa too, and only the 3930K broke the $500 mark in price at time of purchase.  
Just hoping the 11900K is in the $400-$550 range and not marked up more.  If it is, might go with an 11700K instead.

zackcline

kaytrimtv
Well its a swing and a miss for me on the NewEgg Shuffle.  First attempt at getting a 5900x.  Good luck to everyone close to a drop tomorrow

Same for me, except I've been trying for a month, just missing out with it in my cart in some instances. At least the 5800x is available and plenty for me, might pull the trigger soon. 
 
On the other front, the 3897 hasn't moved in a while, though I saw a ton of people grabbing them at the Best Buy drop last week. Very frustrating. 
 
Best of luck all!!

If you're really okay with going with the 5800x, I would wait & let the market settle on those, as they should reduce in price after that like the previous 8xx-SKUs have.  Should go down in price by about $50.  Right now it's being "over-priced" for what it is, because of the way AMD makes their CPUs/Die arrangement, the 5800x is more expensive to make than a 5600x, by a lot, because the 5800x has to have 2 dies on it that have "good enough" cores.
 
I forgot who did a video on it that explained this, maybe it was Hardware Unboxed - but basically the 5800x will definitely go down in price once supply/demand settles, pretty much guaranteed, if you're patient.

I won the shuffle, too bad its one of the more expensive 3060s. Ah well, At least I can continue doing builds.

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
 
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

nick_shl

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

I've been saying this for months. A guy wanted a friend of mine to sell him a 3070 STRIX at cost so he could do a build for a customer and then got mad at him for wanting $30 over MSRP. He wound up turning the deal down lol smdh. If he didn't say it was for a customer he would have sold it @ MSRP but when you basically say you're going to make a profit on it...wth? My friend is the bad guy though, apparently.

johcamp21

nick_shl

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
 
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

coldrain85

nick_shl

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
 
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

There isn't any difference.

Depends. Some folks don't gouge others for products. A scalper is a person who buys something for a price then marks it way up to take advantage of a bad situation. If the builder is marking his completed projects way up over what he paid because of the market he too is a scalper. Believe it or not there are folks out there that want pc's right now and at the same time there are builders out there doing there darndest to build one as cost effective as possible to keep the cost down for their customers. I don't build many, just friends of friends and family - usually equates to 8-10 a year but I haven't built one for three months now because I can't get my hand on a card at a decent price. Alot of folks can't justify spending what is required right now.

Pretty much. At this point, people without cards are going to feel a certain way regardless of those with them.
 
For the past year or so, I was just using older 9 series and 10 series cards but lately even those have been quite expensive. Even 16 series at current MSRP is expensive, I grabbed a 1660 Super last week from Newegg, it cost as much as a 3060 Ti. Remember these overpriced cards still sell out almost immediately. 
 
I don't really make much money doing builds since it was mostly for friends/family and slowly for clients. I consider it more of a hobby/passion since I enjoy doing builds, making them look nice, stress-testing, all that fun stuff.

nick_shl

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
 
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

 
???????????? Did I miss something here?  Dude has 3 posts & you're going after him or the other person he congratulated for "scalping" accusations because... why?  Y'all people need to chill with your unnecessary directing of anger at people that don't deserve it.  It's beyond old, beyond unnecessary, and really should not be tolerated.
Heaven forbid anyone be able to run a business that makes a profit of any kind - that's basically what you're saying by accusing someone of charging market prices for hardware they're putting in a build & selling to someone.  
There is a huge difference between buying a card solely for the purpose of immediately reselling it for a profit, and buying a card to put in a build that you're then going to sell to customers, at a reasonable price.
 
Unless I missed something, EnigmicAzn isn't price gouging the heck out of people they're selling builds to... so why was the quoted post even made? 

Dabadger84

nick_shl

sdjablonskiCongrats!

Scalper who bought card to resell it and make a profit - a bad guy.
 
Builder who bought card to install it, then to resell it and make a profit - a good guy.

I don't see much difference... really.

 
???????????? Did I miss something here?  Dude has 3 posts & you're going after him or the other person he congratulated for "scalping" accusations because... why?  Y'all people need to chill with your unnecessary directing of anger at people that don't deserve it.  It's beyond old, beyond unnecessary, and really should not be tolerated.
Heaven forbid anyone be able to run a business that makes a profit of any kind - that's basically what you're saying by accusing someone of charging market prices for hardware they're putting in a build & selling to someone.  
There is a huge difference between buying a card solely for the purpose of immediately reselling it for a profit, and buying a card to put in a build that you're then going to sell to customers, at a reasonable price.
 
Unless I missed something, EnigmicAzn isn't price gouging the heck out of people they're selling builds to... so why was the quoted post even made? 

Pretty much this.

Here is to some 3060 and hybrid drops tomorrow 😊😇😝

Dabadger84, first, I am not accusing anyone.
 

Dabadger84There is a huge difference between buying a card solely for the purpose of immediately reselling it for a profit, and buying a card to put in a build that you're then going to sell to customers, at a reasonable price.

This is the key.
 

kaytrimtvA person buying a card to build a computer for a customer is adding value to the card by doing the assembly of the custom rig.  Thus they can charge for labor.  A person buying a card only to resell it on ebay at 2x-3x the MSRP is not adding value other than acting as a middle man and that is a loose interpretation of the term.

How many builders who bought GPU at MSRP price uses MSRP price(instead of 2x-3x the MSRP) when calculating final price of gaming rig? I don't think that many. I don't blame anyone - it is a market, no sense to sell less if people buying... what I can't understand: why nVidia didn't rise prices to make profit instead to feed scalpers?

EnigmicAzn
I won the shuffle, too bad its one of the more expensive 3060s. Ah well, At least I can continue doing builds.

Congratulations!  At least someone got a positive email.  They haven't even written to tell me I didn't win and nothing in the cart.  Next time.

me to im on all the 3060ti and all 3070 i am on queue for any of theses cards. 12/07/2020 is my queue date i applied for all so hopefully i get a 3060ti r sumthin its the last piece of the puzzle to finish building my sons first pc. Good luck to everyone.

and here I am just waiting I get lucky with one of the dozen lotteries going on for a given day