Looks like its back in stock in Paterson NJ, micro center over 10 available.
As Techspot showed, even on a forced CPU limited situation (medium details at 1920x1080), there is very little difference between a 3900X and a 3600 as far as gaming goes, and an even smaller difference at full detail levels, so you're not really losing anything as far as gaming goes. And as Techpowerup showed, the difference between the 3700X and 3900X in professional tasks, such as video creation with Adobe Premiere Pro, only 15 seconds difference between them in a task which already takes almost 4:30. So stop pouting about "settling" for the 3800X, you're not missing anything important.
I received my Ryzen 3800x installed it on an Aorus ax370 Gaming 5 motherboard w/16gb of FlareX 3200 ram cas 14.. Works like a charm. no issues.
Saved 100$ 
I really do not understand why AMD has not put out a press releas regarding manufacturing and more stock of the 3900x.
My cart full of goddies have been waiting for weeks @ B&H and no news on when more will be avalible.
And I always upgrade some parts while it is the cart to more exspensive part while it just sits there, this is getting out of hand
Personally I think it is by design, how Nintendo and Apple do it. Build hype and create more hype by reduced supply..."shortage" but you simply do not allow to ship out all units. You want articles lacing the internet about "I cant find this!" So Intel struggles with headlines. Its all due to the marketing team.
Customers are simply after thought victims of such tactics. You have AMD, a company FINALLY crawling out from the gigantic shadow of Intel, You design a product that is highly desired, you know it is wanted. This also allows for positive spins to shareholders during quarterly earnings calls. So its not just 1 big quarter, but can be smeared out over a few. Trust me there is no shortage, they have TONS in a warehouse being held back. I knew this when I bought the motherboard, I figured this would occur and I'll tell you now....Q4 is when you will see a bigger uptick in stock, you want them juicy holiday numbers. If you need a new system right now?? Just go buy Intel. Its cheap and ready to go. A few of my friends just did as they got tired of waiting though I explained this marketing tactic, as they say, there is no such thing as bad press.
I knew to plan for the chip to start really arriving Q4 so I decided to get a flagship MOBO so by then finances will balance nicer rather than one big up front hit. Hell, we may even see Intel try to undercut in a price war and AMD will respond and by December you can get the 3950x for $600-$650
Please though do not feed the profiteers overcharging, the chip is not worth that especially when the masses using AMD do so for gaming where Intel still dominates. Creatives need to wait though.
Just a follow up.
Finally got my 3900x from Overclockers.co.uk, in fact I've had it over a week.
Absolutely not disappointed.
MY build spec basics are:
ryzen 9 3900x.
Aorus x570 ultra motherboard ( with bios updates applied to improve XMP memory support).
32gigs 3200mhz Corsair vengeance LPX black AMD ryzen tuned memory.
Corsair Force MP510 series 480GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive boot drive.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER WindForce OC 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card.
Corsair Hydro Series H100i Platinum RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 240mm.
be quiet! Dark Base 700 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass.
Now theres a few things that jump out.
Firstly the CPU is awesome, no question. its by no means the absolute best gaming cpu you can get, but its so close behind a 9900k overclocked to 5.1ghz (with the 3900x remaining at stock) that the difference isnt even worth talking about unless your running a dual 2080ti build trying to play like.. shadow of the tomb raider at full HDR 1440p 120FPS resolution.
Multicore performance... is hit you not.. my rig with only minimal stock tweaks came out at third best scores on cinebench behind only two multi socket XEON based severs. one was a 64 core system and one was a 96 core system i believe. so those are easily 10,000 + dollar server blades. This was in multicore testing... and amazingly...
in single core testing... i came out flat out top. iI do not know why. This shouldn't be the case in my opinion.
Gaming bencmarks also surpassed expectations. In 3d Marks full DX12 score came out just shy of 10,000. in the 86% percentile. This is amazing considering gaming for this setup is an after thought. A serious afterthought, but tstill throughput and workloads are the primary reasons for this build. Now it is worth pointing out that mt graphics card is not super amazing. is damn good. But not top tier. Also.. in the results something strange happened. No tests displayed the 900k in any of the results. stock or overclocked. I feel like this is a purposeful omission for whatever reason and i am reasonably certain hat this cpu would have beaten mine in single core gaming performance by a good 15% easy.
Noise is quite. there is a lot of talk about slow versus fast cores, and high TDP and temps and throttling. I do not see any problems with any of this. I have extensively testing my boost performance and while it is true that i do not often see spikes of boost past 4.5 percent, i do see regularly all boosts to 4.3-4.4 easy with regular intermittent 4.5 boost across all cores, though no simultaneously.
My Thor ROG 850 watt PSU is not drawing massive high wattage like some systems are system while at load loads. The temps are gloriously low even while gaming and the noise levels... OMG.. the noise levels are beautiful. ITS SO QUIET! even under heavy load with all fans ramped up to max rpm its still quieter than my old build. And its been hot here. No doubt my case, which is excellent and the AIO cooler are a large part of the fantastic temp control i am seeing, as well as the fact that low temps while doing basic multi thread tasks, like having 1000 browsers tabs in firefox open coz im OCD and stupid AF, an audio book paused in WMP12, and various other background programs and sundries going.. the system is only at like 12% memory load, 3% CPU load and ultra quiet. like...so quiet when my monitors go to sleep i have to check the computer hasnt died
.
So all in all...
while the lack of supply is a shocking failure on AMDs part...
And the failure to deliver the 3950x is another...
and the now burgeoning lack of Ryzen 7 3800x's rearing tis head...
AND the ongoing stuttering teething x570 chipset problems are another...
AMD have delivered in one way... Performance. the CPU is glorious. absolutely fantastic.
Now.. if a gaming build is your focus... a super high end 900k build is still the way to go. stick a mother-ship of a huge AIO in that and overclock it to 5.2ghz and coupled it with a 2070 super or a 2080 ti if your feeling ludicrous. and you'll not regret it and defiantly gain some performance over the 3900x.
However. this CPU affords you pci-e 4.0 gen support and support for the next 1-2 MAD generations of chips, which are likely to slaughter Intel's stuff so bad that may be brought of war crimes charges ^.^
So if multi threaded heavy loads are the focus of your build. OR... if gaming and throughput is your aim... this is the CPU for you. it is absolutely , every bit, worth every penny of its price tag for those willing to stick out the insane delays in shipping.
best of luck to everybody stuck in the Que eagerly waiting their chip. barring any production on manufacturing issues with your individual chip... you will NOT be disappointing.
be quiet! Dark Base 700 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass.
Now theres a few things that jump out.
Firstly the CPU is awesome, no question. its by no means the absolute best gaming cpu you can get, but its so close behind a 9900k overclocked to 5.1ghz (with the 3900x remaining at stock) that the difference isnt even worth talking about unless your running a dual 2080ti build trying to play like.. shadow of the tomb raider at full HDR 1440p 120FPS resolution.
Multicore performance... is hit you not.. my rig with only minimal stock tweaks came out at third best scores on cinebench behind only two multi socket XEON based severs. one was a 64 core system and one was a 96 core system i believe. so those are easily 10,000 + dollar server blades. This was in multicore testing... and amazingly...
in single core testing... i came out flat out top. iI do not know why. This shouldn't be the case in my opinion.
Gaming bencmarks also surpassed expectations. In 3d Marks full DX12 score came out just shy of 10,000. in the 86% percentile. This is amazing considering gaming for this setup is an after thought. A serious afterthought, but tstill throughput and workloads are the primary reasons for this build. Now it is worth pointing out that mt graphics card is not super amazing. is damn good. But not top tier. Also.. in the results something strange happened. No tests displayed the 900k in any of the results. stock or overclocked. I feel like this is a purposeful omission for whatever reason and i am reasonably certain hat this cpu would have beaten mine in single core gaming performance by a good 15% easy.
Noise is quite. there is a lot of talk about slow versus fast cores, and high TDP and temps and throttling. I do not see any problems with any of this. I have extensively testing my boost performance and while it is true that i do not often see spikes of boost past 4.5 percent, i do see regularly all boosts to 4.3-4.4 easy with regular intermittent 4.5 boost across all cores, though no simultaneously.
My Thor ROG 850 watt PSU is not drawing massive high wattage like some systems are system while at load loads. The temps are gloriously low even while gaming and the noise levels... OMG.. the noise levels are beautiful. ITS SO QUIET! even under heavy load with all fans ramped up to max rpm its still quieter than my old build. And its been hot here. No doubt my case, which is excellent and the AIO cooler are a large part of the fantastic temp control i am seeing, as well as the fact that low temps while doing basic multi thread tasks, like having 1000 browsers tabs in firefox open coz im OCD and stupid AF, an audio book paused in WMP12, and various other background programs and sundries going.. the system is only at like 12% memory load, 3% CPU load and ultra quiet. like...so quiet when my monitors go to sleep i have to check the computer hasnt died
.So all in all...
while the lack of supply is a shocking failure on AMDs part...
And the failure to deliver the 3950x is another...
and the now burgeoning lack of Ryzen 7 3800x's rearing tis head...
AND the ongoing stuttering teething x570 chipset problems are another...
AMD have delivered in one way... Performance. the CPU is glorious. absolutely fantastic.
Now.. if a gaming build is your focus... a super high end 900k build is still the way to go. stick a mother-ship of a huge AIO in that and overclock it to 5.2ghz and coupled it with a 2070 super or a 2080 ti if your feeling ludicrous. and you'll not regret it and defiantly gain some performance over the 3900x.
However. this CPU affords you pci-e 4.0 gen support and support for the next 1-2 MAD generations of chips, which are likely to slaughter Intel's stuff so bad that may be brought of war crimes charges ^.^
So if multi threaded heavy loads are the focus of your build. OR... if gaming and throughput is your aim... this is the CPU for you. it is absolutely , every bit, worth every penny of its price tag for those willing to stick out the insane delays in shipping.
best of luck to everybody stuck in the Que eagerly waiting their chip. barring any production on manufacturing issues with your individual chip... you will NOT be disappointing.
nice, look what I got from a simple 2400 CL14 RAM got me after I CO'd it to 3600 CL20 on a ryzen 3600 cpu, this even only boosts to 4GHz all core, 4.1GHz single core
