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Over the past three weeks I've had 7 store pages on auto refresh trying to catch a 5950x in stock. I've finally got one on order but it's a pre-order and its ea

Over the past three weeks I've had 7 store pages on auto refresh trying to catch a 5950x in stock. I've finally got one on order but it's a pre-order and its earliest ETA is Jan 12th. I guess this gives me time to try and order the GPU I want. It isn't just CPUs and GPUs though. The cooler I want won't be in stock until July per the manufacturer. I had to get lucky to get the PSU I wanted. People are employing crazy techniques to get each piece of their machine, not just the critical components. Scalpers are magnifying the issue. The scalping problem will be solved eventually when supply catches up, but the longer that takes, the more stock the scalpers will obtain, thus prolonging the time window scalping will be profitable. I didn't know what I signed up for last month when I decided to do a build but I sure as hell wasn't expecting this. I only need the GPU now so at least the end is in sight.

jrockway 6y ago
I built a new machine back in August and the PSU was the hardest part. I tend to only buy Seasonic power supplies, but there just weren't any in stock anywhere. I ended up finding an Asus power supply on B&H and it served me well, but I really hate deviating from my approved vendor list. (So far it has treated me well. It's a 1200W unit and I can pull 1000W from it without any problems at all. The same cannot be said of other non-Seasonic units I've had over the years. I was plagued with flakiness with a Corsair 1000W unit many years ago. I wasted so much time debugging that problem; finally connecting an oscilloscope to the 12V rail and noticing that the 12V rail fell to 10V when running AVX instructions. That explains why the computer just hard powered off when I hit an AVX workload :) ECC memory was also in a bad state then, so I suffer with non-ECC memory. So far, that is also treating me well. Can't worry about bit flips you don't know about! (taps forehead)
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  Yeah, I'm now happy to have switched my decade-old 400W Corsair to a (perhaps oversized) 750W one just before Covid hit. It didn't solve my RAM issues (memtest just hangs with 2×8 Go, and the PC randomly reboots with 4x8 Go), and so overclocking is still out, but at least I don't have to worry about my PSU anymore...
  - jrockway 6y ago
    I've had consistently bad luck with memory, though I never went out of my way to check which chips the module was using, or whether the modules were on my motherboard's QVL. I did both of those things with my most recent build and things are working better than usual. I haven't heard of a lot of problems with power supplies causing bad memory; usually the memory itself is just bad. RMA that stuff and re-roll.

jrockway 6y ago

I built a new machine back in August and the PSU was the hardest part. I tend to only buy Seasonic power supplies, but there just weren't any in stock anywhere. I ended up finding an Asus power supply on B&H and it served me well, but I really hate deviating from my approved vendor list. (So far it has treated me well. It's a 1200W unit and I can pull 1000W from it without any problems at all. The same cannot be said of other non-Seasonic units I've had over the years. I was plagued with flakiness with a Corsair 1000W unit many years ago. I wasted so much time debugging that problem; finally connecting an oscilloscope to the 12V rail and noticing that the 12V rail fell to 10V when running AVX instructions. That explains why the computer just hard powered off when I hit an AVX workload :) ECC memory was also in a bad state then, so I suffer with non-ECC memory. So far, that is also treating me well. Can't worry about bit flips you don't know about! (taps forehead)

BlueTemplar 6y ago
Yeah, I'm now happy to have switched my decade-old 400W Corsair to a (perhaps oversized) 750W one just before Covid hit. It didn't solve my RAM issues (memtest just hangs with 2×8 Go, and the PC randomly reboots with 4x8 Go), and so overclocking is still out, but at least I don't have to worry about my PSU anymore...
- jrockway 6y ago
  I've had consistently bad luck with memory, though I never went out of my way to check which chips the module was using, or whether the modules were on my motherboard's QVL. I did both of those things with my most recent build and things are working better than usual. I haven't heard of a lot of problems with power supplies causing bad memory; usually the memory itself is just bad. RMA that stuff and re-roll.