Yea I don't know too many people who are thrilled about chipset fans coming back.
FYI, At about noon Micro center let me reserve a 3900x for pickup tonight
Ordered an Aorus Master and 5700 to go along with it and maximize my bundle discount.
Big upgrade for me from my i5 2500k
Main point was, 3900x in stock at MicroCenter
FYI, At about noon Micro center let me reserve a 3900x for pickup tonight
Ordered an Aorus Master and 5700 to go along with it and maximize my bundle discount.
Big upgrade for me from my i5 2500k
Well, I was not as picky about my motherboard with Ryzen 1000, I got an $89 ASRock pro 4 and put the 1800x in it on Day 1. When the Taichi became available, I got a 1700x to put in the Pro, and the Taichi got the 1800x.Stock is way better for this launch than for Ryzen 1. Though getting the motherboard was the hard part back then.
3900X has come into stock multiple times at different vendors today.
Microcenter appears to have decent stock on the higher end SKUs at at least some locations now.
Best Buy is taking preorders arriving "soon" on the 3900X again.
The lack of ability to pre-order seems to have caught retailers without a true gauge of the demand for these chips. And I'm sure they've been burned before, so I get it, but it given how quickly the restocking is happening, it seems like AMD had the stock, but retailers were playing it safe so they didn't get stuck having to Bulldozer a bunch of chips out the back door.
Yes, I have a 240 mm AIO, and its top mounted. So it sucks cool air fron the bottom of the case, right past the VRMs and the hot air goes out the top. And with 4233 cl16 memory, I can run 3733 (the fastest at 1:1) easily, so no problem there. And with that cooling, I may beat the benchmarks using PBO (if it works) since they said if it runs cooler, it clocks higher.Yesterday, the Cleveland Micro Center store said they had 10 3900X at launch and stuff was getting dropped shipped straight to the store, not going through a distribution warehouse. Columbus said they had 30 for launch.
I think demand is so high because you don't *need* a new board to use 3900X, just good airflow on your VRM's
Or expensive CL14 B-Die either to get the most from the chip like Zen and Zen+.
IEC answered your username question.I'm in the middle of ordering parts for a 3900X build for work (I run lots of VMs in WS Pro, and multitask with apps running in Windows at the same time), and want to add 64GB RAM to it. I've got 32GB DDR3 in the current desktop I've got now (it still has a i7 2600K CPU), and some of these VMs need a minimum of 16GB RAM and 4 core *per instance*, so 64GB would at least give me some breathing room.
I guess my first question (of many), is how much difference would I see using 4x16GB 3200 CL16 DIMMs vs 3200 CL14 (or CL15) DIMMs? Corsair has a 64GB LPX kit with 16-18-18-36 timings for $300, while G.Skill has 64GB 3200 kits ranging from 16-18-18-38 for $328, 15-15-15-35 for $465, and 14-14-14-34 for $530. I'm only going to be gaming on the side, and even those aren't super demanding (more old school fighting games, shmups, etc...)
I'd love to try a pair of those 32GB DIMMs with 14-15-15-35 timings, but considering that NewEgg has a grand total of two kits, and the one that's "only" $670 is sold out (the other is an eye-watering $730), and they aren't on the QVL for any X570 board that I've seen, I don't relish the thought of being a guinea pig on this one.(if it were just $250, then sure).
FWIW, I've been leaning towards the Strix X570 E/F, and Aorus X570 Ultra/Master. Haven't settled on which one yet, especially because of the BIOS shenanigans ASUS played prior to launch, and their "ASUS Aura" software opening a hole in people's firewalls without asking.
PS.
Is it possible to change a username? I may or may not have been incredibly drunk when I created this account.