Early Canadian Listings for AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Suggest It Could Fetch $1000 in the U.S.

[Peter_Brosdahl]

AMD’s long awaited high end desktop processor is seemingly confirmed to sell for at least $999 in the U.S. following early listings from across the border. There’s never been any doubt that the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Desktop Processor would sell for a premium price, but the question has been how high that […]

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[Grimlakin]

That's a bit redonkulous but WTF do I know. Ram prices are at stupid levels with everything else so why not CPU's!

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

9950x3d is 960 CAD$ right now. Nearly 1400$ no thanks.

 

[David_Schroth]

I have a hard time seeing more than a $100-150 premium over the standard X3D....

 

[Brent_Justice]

Intel is reportedly planning a CPU price increase; I would not be surprised if AMD follows.

Intel Reportedly Planning Another CPU Price Increase in May Amid Massive Demand

Intel is reportedly preparing yet another CPU price hike, adding to the previous increases implemented in February and March. According to the latest research and channel checks from Chinese market research firm Minutes Logic Society, Intel plans to add another price increase to its existing...

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[Grimlakin]

Man... my venerably 9950x3d is going to need to last a while... (rubs computer) You're good baby... you're good... daddy loves you.

 

[Brian_B]

Man... my venerably 9950x3d is going to need to last a while... (rubs computer) You're good baby... you're good... daddy loves you.

Honestly I think if my computer shat the bed right now, I'd just get a Mac Mini so I could get work stuff done at home and call it quits. Between Mining Bubbles 1 and 2, Covid, and now this AI crap, and the market continually getting smaller and more exclusive and expensive and pushed by both artificial and real scarcity. This hobby just doesn't seem to be going in a sustainable direction and it's becoming less and less fun as the barriers to entry keep getting higher, which just raises the stakes and make it less fun to push boundaries and risk the hardware.

I mean, it was never free or cheap, per say, but I can remember dumpster diving for old Sun and NeXT Workstations when I was in college, and going to swap meets in the late 90's and buying everything I needed to build a budget gamer rig for cheap, and taking it home and building my own watercooling crap and not being afraid to reach for crazy overclocks, and if I toasted a $55 Duron or $75 budget motherboard, it wasn't an entire paycheck (or more) down the drain. MSRP wasn't a "thank god I found it" but a ceiling that almost no one ever paid. Building a gaming rig today almost requires a HELOC or signing your soul away to be a "influencer" -- and that's assuming you can still even get availability at ~any~ price. And it's not like the used hardware or dumpster diving is a viable avenue really either - everything is commodity laptops or AIOs or junk office dumb terminals.. or mobile phones. Not a lot of parts that can be stripped any longer.

AI may be the next thing that changes the world. I'm thinking more and more about getting out the "Get off my Lawn, I still have dial-up" sign and just sticking my fingers in my ears and ignoring it entirely.