Hey all. As per my few other posts, I'm soon building a rig around a Ryzen 9 5950x and with the whole scalper situation, stock for that processor is very very hectic. I live in Quebec City, Canada and we don't have reliable PC Hardware stores like Canadacomputers or Memory Express, and even if I did they would be closed because of the government lockdown (praise Covid). Therefore, I need advice on what would be the best way to buy the 5950x (other than from scalpers on eBay, obviously). I am aware that amazon and newegg have auto-notify features and I already subscribed to those, but chances are that I will be at work when stock comes in on business days and they will have been purchased within 4 minutes.
As there's no queue to buy those with any retailers here (I love you, EVGA queue system), I wonder if I should just keep hoping on the auto-notify system, or if I should place an order with an online retailer that has a backorder system and that would ship it out to me when my time comes (dreadful).
Thank you for your time and advice !
EVGA fan since the GTX 500's series, 2 580's SLI
2 780's SLI
2 1080's SLI
RIP nVidia SLI Driver support jan. 2021, so future owner of a RTX 3090 K|NGP|N