Quote from: Stas on April 04, 2021, 17:48:38At this point, I would be inclined to wait for AM5. Unless a computer is urgently needed. Especially for an APU (hopefully DDR5 + PCIe 4.0 + RDNA 2 I guess - that's what I call an upgrade). Alder Lake could be an option. We'll have to wait and see. That hybrid architecture leaves a big question mark (e.g. how well will Windows handle it, what it means for virtualization etc.).
Yep, things have gotten a lot more complicated over the years. I, myself, was looking to get a Ryzen 9 5900X as my next upgrade, but could not.
Now I have decided to ride it out with my 14-nm Core i7-6700K until the Alder Lake chips come out, or the pricing for AMD CPUs normalises. The 11th Gen parts are just not compelling enough for me.
Quote from: _MT_ on April 04, 2021, 08:44:47
That would depend on how well it does. I haven't bothered checking and I don't have high hopes. The whole 700/ 700K/ 900/ 900K situation is unfortunate. In the sense that it's not exactly clear what you should buy without seeing benchmarks. It's too artificial. Like they had to have four models instead of axing something. They had something similar with 9700/ 9900. Except 9700 lacked SMT. Making things easier to judge. As long as you know what kind of effect SMT has in your workload. The problem there were motherboards. Many didn't play by the rules (messing around with power limits). Complicating selection and testing as well (few people bothered controlling for it).
EU. The Czech Republic specifically. Although I'm most of the time elsewhere, that's my reference point (Germany is second in line).
Quote from: Stas on April 03, 2021, 16:49:45That would depend on how well it does. I haven't bothered checking and I don't have high hopes. The whole 700/ 700K/ 900/ 900K situation is unfortunate. In the sense that it's not exactly clear what you should buy without seeing benchmarks. It's too artificial. Like they had to have four models instead of axing something. They had something similar with 9700/ 9900. Except 9700 lacked SMT. Making things easier to judge. As long as you know what kind of effect SMT has in your workload. The problem there were motherboards. Many didn't play by the rules (messing around with power limits). Complicating selection and testing as well (few people bothered controlling for it).
By the way, what is your region?
In any case, I am not surprised that the 11900K is not widely unavailable. I reckon it is more of a collectors' edition item than a CPU that Intel actually wants to sell to a lot of people.
Quote from: Stas on April 03, 2021, 16:37:25
ToQuote from: _MT_ on April 03, 2021, 16:10:39
Are you sure the 11900K was even released in Russia? Around here, it wasn't. 900, 700, 700K, 600K are all in stock and shipping. But 11900K has only placeholders.
By the way, what is your region?
In any case, I am not surprised that the 11900K is not widely unavailable. I reckon it is more of a collectors' edition item than a CPU that Intel actually wants to sell to a lot of people.
Quote from: _MT_ on April 03, 2021, 16:10:39
Are you sure the 11900K was even released in Russia? Around here, it wasn't. 900, 700, 700K, 600K are all in stock and shipping. But 11900K has only placeholders.
Why did you highlight "Visit the Intel Store," implying that it's Intel's offering (11900K). Instead of highlighting "Sold by M-X-C Tech." I imagine they can set whatever price they want (especially if there is practically zero stock). While we have zero stock of 11900K, placeholders are nowhere near $1k. IIRC, they are about €100 above 11900. Not that it's great value. Just nowhere near what you're trying to present.