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AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700. That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or
by lopkeny12ko 4y ago
AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700.
That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoIt's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.
- AgentOrange1234 4y agoEh? Source?
- lopkeny12ko 4y agoThis sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?
- lnsru 4y agoIt is a bit conspiratorial. Since everything that’s is being made is shipped immediately and nobody has a warehouse to store bad Black Friday electronics I would take such statements with a grain of salt.
- chabad360 4y agoNot so conspiratorial, I don't know about AMD but companies like Samsung do sell modified SKUs (I believe mainly TVs) with generally worse processor power than their not BF counterparts. A quick Google (or HN even) search should bring up a few articles about this behavior.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoThey also have store-specific models which may be the issue. All subtly different and generally only the base model is reviewed.
- SXX 4y agoThen you just RMA them. Problem solved.
- fmajid 4y agoThey lowered the prices everywhere, not Black Friday specific. PC demand has collapsed due to the coming recession.