[HN Gopher] Intel Core i7-11700K falls behind AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
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       Intel Core i7-11700K falls behind AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
        
       Author : amazbennett
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-03-01 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mikeInAlaska wrote:
       | I totally gave up on finding a Ryzen 5xxx series chip. What a
       | terrible year for product releases.
        
         | zcdziura wrote:
         | I was really lucky to find the 5800X for sale directly from
         | AMD. Looks like it's out of stock right now, but was definitely
         | available for purchase even like a week ago. Just poor luck!
         | Buying PC components right now is an absolute chore.
        
         | unethical_ban wrote:
         | If you live near a Microcenter, they are available in store.
         | 
         | I actually was at the Dallas store with a ticket to buy a
         | 5600X, but left for two reasons: I decided I didn't need to
         | spend $300 for marginal noticeable performance increases, and I
         | didn't want to stand in the checkout line for an hour.
        
         | jjjeii3 wrote:
         | A lot of people switched to remove work due to coronavirus and
         | now they need a laptop, so the demand is extremely high for
         | laptops and it's components. It's much easier to do almost any
         | work on a laptop than on smartphone.
        
           | choeger wrote:
           | > remove work
           | 
           | Typo of the day :D
        
           | junar wrote:
           | The article (and presumably the parent comment) is talking
           | about desktop CPUs. Laptop chips are generally soldered onto
           | the motherboard, so you don't buy them separately.
        
             | NoPicklez wrote:
             | Right, but if AMD need to produce these chips and more
             | people are working from home, thus more people are
             | potentially buying laptops then a cut of the available
             | chips could potentially still be going into laptops?
             | 
             | Leaving less available chips for desktops.
        
         | mjw1007 wrote:
         | Can anyone tell me why there are shortages of these chips, as
         | opposed to the prices being set so that demand is more in line
         | with supply?
         | 
         | (I'm not asking for possible reasons why this sort of thing can
         | happen; I'm asking whether anyone here knows which of them
         | applies in this case.)
        
           | sudosysgen wrote:
           | Because they don't want to be dismissed towards Intel, and
           | also that's a move that will earn you a lot of ill will.
           | 
           | Instead, these companies allow resellers to sell above MSRP
           | and send AMD/NVidia/etc... a cut.
        
             | abc_lisper wrote:
             | Really? I thought this was because demand anticipation is
             | hard, and chip manufacturing requires a long pipeline
        
               | ece wrote:
               | Yeah, the system integrators are getting all the supply,
               | so retail BYOPC buyers aren't seeing stock. Ryzens are
               | still easier to find than GPUs though. I've seen the 3xxx
               | series chips in stock at a few places.
               | 
               | Consoles see a crunch for a month or two and then are
               | usually available: this means some of those early buyers
               | might have paid more than MSRP, while most other people
               | won't. People can find alternatives or wait a bit in this
               | case.
        
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