Out of Stock: Power Supplies, Motherboards, & Video Card Shortage Explained, Restock Dates
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Date: 2020-05-31
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Tom
It makes total sense that everyone would go out and buy a new PC with stimulus money or relief money. For many US citizens living pay check to pay check a sudden 1200 means it could be the only time they can afford to get a new PC, and for many it's not a splurge type purchase but a very much needed component of productivity that will benefit them greatly in the long run. It's interesting to see the effects of all of this. People living in lower class financial situations might actually come out in a better situation after all this is said and done, than they were to begin with. Which IMO, is an amazing thing. Not to bring politics into it or anything, but I just want to leave my thought and say I think the stimulus and pandemic relief assistance was much needed even if there was no pandemic going on. A lot of people are finally getting a PC that is current and will allow them to become more productive than ever before.
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It makes total sense that everyone would go out and buy a new PC with stimulus money or relief money. For many US citizens living pay check to pay check a sudden 1200 means it could be the only time they can afford to get a new PC, and for many it's not a splurge type purchase but a very much needed component of productivity that will benefit them greatly in the long run. It's interesting to see the effects of all of this. People living in lower class financial situations might actually come out in a better situation after all this is said and done, than they were to begin with. Which IMO, is an amazing thing. Not to bring politics into it or anything, but I just want to leave my thought and say I think the stimulus and pandemic relief assistance was much needed even if there was no pandemic going on. A lot of people are finally getting a PC that is current and will allow them to become more productive than ever before.
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David
I ran into this issue a couple weeks ago. Every PSU that was worth buying on Newegg was out of stock. Even the Refurbished PSUs were out of stock. I even stopped at Micro Center and they had absolutely nothing. I figured I was screwed and now had to wait with 2000 in parts without a PSU to power it all. I checked eBay and the PSU Gods must have been looking down on me as I found a Corsair CX750m. I was planning on going with the fully modular RM750x but with the current situation I would gladly take the semi modular CX750m. It was brand new in box and the Buy It Now price was 60 bucks. After I bought it, the seller messaged me and said he had never had an item sell so fast and said it was only listed for about 10 minutes when I bought it. I have never felt better booting a system for the first time as I did with this past one, it seemed like a struggle just to get all the parts.
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I ran into this issue a couple weeks ago. Every PSU that was worth buying on Newegg was out of stock. Even the Refurbished PSUs were out of stock. I even stopped at Micro Center and they had absolutely nothing. I figured I was screwed and now had to wait with 2000 in parts without a PSU to power it all. I checked eBay and the PSU Gods must have been looking down on me as I found a Corsair CX750m. I was planning on going with the fully modular RM750x but with the current situation I would gladly take the semi modular CX750m. It was brand new in box and the Buy It Now price was 60 bucks. After I bought it, the seller messaged me and said he had never had an item sell so fast and said it was only listed for about 10 minutes when I bought it. I have never felt better booting a system for the first time as I did with this past one, it seemed like a struggle just to get all the parts.
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Kryten42
I found out first hand about video card shortages when my old R9 390X died in Feb. The stores here (in Aus.) prices went up (some by over A 100 on RX 5700 XT cards). I got very lucky and found a Gigabyte AORUS RX 5700 XT in April for A 744 shipped (with _free_ shipping thanks to Prime) from Gigabyte USA (they were over A 820 here). It arrived in about 2 weeks. I was pleased & damned lucky! I was concerned because it was shipped in ONLY the standard store packaging (no shipping box) and was banged up. But the inner foam kept the card safe thankfully! The AORUS is better than I expected, a nice bonus. :D Your Mandarin is quite good Steve. keep it up! It's a very useful skill for someone in your position, as I am certain you know. :D
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I found out first hand about video card shortages when my old R9 390X died in Feb. The stores here (in Aus.) prices went up (some by over A 100 on RX 5700 XT cards). I got very lucky and found a Gigabyte AORUS RX 5700 XT in April for A 744 shipped (with _free_ shipping thanks to Prime) from Gigabyte USA (they were over A 820 here). It arrived in about 2 weeks. I was pleased & damned lucky! I was concerned because it was shipped in ONLY the standard store packaging (no shipping box) and was banged up. But the inner foam kept the card safe thankfully! The AORUS is better than I expected, a nice bonus. :D Your Mandarin is quite good Steve. keep it up! It's a very useful skill for someone in your position, as I am certain you know. :D
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Khunvyel
Curious. I am currently building three high tier rigs for people and neither do I see a lack of availability nor do I see a big spike of prices. Then again, I don't order from Amazon as the retailers I buy from are often times even cheaper than Amazon. Europe Region here. How can that be? Larger stockpiles on interim tax zones? Many foreign distributors like China and others are known to have a forward stock so when you order, it doesn't actually come from the mainland directly but rather the forward storage, which is why they can also keep the shipping times fairly tight and short. I guess that's the reason why I don't see a lot of issues here, as these forward stockpiles including retailer storage has been prepared for that?
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Curious. I am currently building three high tier rigs for people and neither do I see a lack of availability nor do I see a big spike of prices. Then again, I don't order from Amazon as the retailers I buy from are often times even cheaper than Amazon. Europe Region here. How can that be? Larger stockpiles on interim tax zones? Many foreign distributors like China and others are known to have a forward stock so when you order, it doesn't actually come from the mainland directly but rather the forward storage, which is why they can also keep the shipping times fairly tight and short. I guess that's the reason why I don't see a lot of issues here, as these forward stockpiles including retailer storage has been prepared for that?
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Guest
Why is it that as soon as I see the title of this video, my PC decides to start emitting a loud, fan dying sort of noise? Could just be an intake fan, fingers crossed, but I get the distinct feeling the old R9 380 might be making the noise. Though I have been playing some Cities Skylines that has had my CPU pinned for hours on end, so maybe it's the Intel stock cooler. Is there a program that will let me turn down fans to find out what one it is without opening her up? Not that it's a big deal to do it, I would just hate to disturb all that dust in there. :)
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Why is it that as soon as I see the title of this video, my PC decides to start emitting a loud, fan dying sort of noise? Could just be an intake fan, fingers crossed, but I get the distinct feeling the old R9 380 might be making the noise. Though I have been playing some Cities Skylines that has had my CPU pinned for hours on end, so maybe it's the Intel stock cooler. Is there a program that will let me turn down fans to find out what one it is without opening her up? Not that it's a big deal to do it, I would just hate to disturb all that dust in there. :)
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Sean
As a small point of clarification: Many passenger planes are in the air, flying cargo-only flights. In fact, these flights have made Anchorage, Alaska the busiest airport in the world. The economics are fascinating. Many airlines are receiving government incentives to keep their workers employed, demand is exceeding supply and jet fuel has been seeing historic lows. This combination of factors has made inefficient air freight commercially viable when it would otherwise not be for commercial airlines.
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As a small point of clarification: Many passenger planes are in the air, flying cargo-only flights. In fact, these flights have made Anchorage, Alaska the busiest airport in the world. The economics are fascinating. Many airlines are receiving government incentives to keep their workers employed, demand is exceeding supply and jet fuel has been seeing historic lows. This combination of factors has made inefficient air freight commercially viable when it would otherwise not be for commercial airlines.
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Jon
I had thought this would happen, millions of people having to work/stay from/at home. and given 1200. I just wanted to upgrade, MB, CPU, RAM. The 85 r5 1600 AF pushed me over the edge along with evga rtx 2060 ko ULTRA GAMING. Not your normal tu104 evga KO, faster. I figure supply issues caused both of those re-brands. even a new chair and 27 1440p, 144hz. Did this just days before things dried up. only mouse & keyboard remained the same... upgrade, lol
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I had thought this would happen, millions of people having to work/stay from/at home. and given 1200. I just wanted to upgrade, MB, CPU, RAM. The 85 r5 1600 AF pushed me over the edge along with evga rtx 2060 ko ULTRA GAMING. Not your normal tu104 evga KO, faster. I figure supply issues caused both of those re-brands. even a new chair and 27 1440p, 144hz. Did this just days before things dried up. only mouse & keyboard remained the same... upgrade, lol
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Jeremy
There are plenty of them if you are willing to pay 2-3x their normal price. I just bought my son parts to build a machine. Cost me 2100 and that was finding decent deals. Probably could have spent about 300 less had we not been in a pandemic where the typical a-holes don't try to take advantage. I just report their price gouging to the respective marketplace owner (amazon, newegg, etc). Sad people take advantage like that.
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There are plenty of them if you are willing to pay 2-3x their normal price. I just bought my son parts to build a machine. Cost me 2100 and that was finding decent deals. Probably could have spent about 300 less had we not been in a pandemic where the typical a-holes don't try to take advantage. I just report their price gouging to the respective marketplace owner (amazon, newegg, etc). Sad people take advantage like that.
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Rand0mTV
Well, we've mostly been putting all our eggs in one basket . The fact that so much manufacturing is reliant on China is a problem and it has been clearly shown now. But kudos to China for getting everything back up in such a short amount of time. I'm not sure any other country would be able to do that. I know we are talking about months for recovery and not days, but it's super impressive considering the scale.
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Well, we've mostly been putting all our eggs in one basket . The fact that so much manufacturing is reliant on China is a problem and it has been clearly shown now. But kudos to China for getting everything back up in such a short amount of time. I'm not sure any other country would be able to do that. I know we are talking about months for recovery and not days, but it's super impressive considering the scale.
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bananya
Micro center appears to have discontinued Ryzen 2xxx(X) 2nd gen parts in their store, except for their APUs (in which new APUs are not coming). i can no longer search for them normally, (only if I go through to their direct link), and I noticed this often happens before a new processor release. Maybe this could mean that the Ryzen refresh is coming? (raven ridge bundles are still there, but never in stock.)
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Micro center appears to have discontinued Ryzen 2xxx(X) 2nd gen parts in their store, except for their APUs (in which new APUs are not coming). i can no longer search for them normally, (only if I go through to their direct link), and I noticed this often happens before a new processor release. Maybe this could mean that the Ryzen refresh is coming? (raven ridge bundles are still there, but never in stock.)
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