AMD’s best gaming CPU is really difficult to buy during its launch week

AMD launched its latest Ryzen 7 9800X3D to glowing reviews this week, but if you’re looking to bargain 1 past you mightiness person to hold for much stock. The 9800X3D is presently sold retired at Newegg and Best Buy, with the bulk of Micro Center locations besides sold retired of AMD’s champion gaming processor.

The concern is akin crossed Europe, too. In Germany astir retailers person run retired of stock, with caller shipments not expected to get until aboriginal this month. In the UK Scan is accepting preorders for the 9800X3D, but banal won’t get until November 29th. Overclockers successful the UK says its banal is presently held astatine UK customs and that its archetypal and 2nd shipments are allocated and sold out. It’s not expecting different shipment until December.

AMD computing and graphics brag Jack Huynh shared photos connected X of radical lining up for the 9800X3D astatine retailers, portion AMD CEO Lisa Su has been signing immoderate of the CPUs for “some peculiar partners.” Naturally, scalpers are trying to instrumentality vantage of the debased banal concern with immoderate 9800X3D listings connected eBay asking arsenic overmuch arsenic $999 alternatively of the $479 retail terms of the CPU.

While there’s bound to beryllium immoderate pent-up request for the 9800X3D aft the disappointment of Zen 5 desktop CPUs and Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K, it’s wide AMD doesn’t person capable banal of this caller CPU for its motorboat period. The 9800X3D motorboat timing came arsenic a surprise, arriving little than 3 months aft AMD introduced its archetypal Zen 5 desktop CPUs successful August. AMD didn’t present its Zen 4 X3D parts until 5 months aft the Ryzen 9 7950X was archetypal released successful September 2022, with the 7800X3D arriving astir 7 months later.