I just bought an R7-5700X not too long ago, expecting to get an R7-5800X3D 6 months or so down the road but then, I saw this:
And... he's right. Canada Computers had VERY limited stock at CA$470 and Memory Express was completely sold out at CA$430. I happened to be talking to Memory Express about my 5700X purchase being only 13 days before the Uncharted Bundle was released. The staff there didn't know what to tell me but one of their regional customer service Big Cheeses was there and he took the phone to talk to me. He said that he was sorry but he couldn't give me the bundle. I said "It's ok, I wasn't really expecting it but I thought that I'd ask." and he thanked me for being understanding. I told him about how I used to work for Tiger Direct so I'd been on the other side of the counter myself and I knew that it wasn't his call.
He asked me if there was anything else that he could help me with and I said "As a matter of fact, yes. Are you expecting any more 5800X3Ds to arrive?" I was told that they were expecting 8 to arrive by Friday and he asked me if I was a registered customer with them. I told them that I was and so he took my phone number and reserved one of the 5800X3Ds for me.
It may be the last shipment of 5800X3Ds that they get because people are snapping these up like mad (and who can blame them?) and AMD isn't making AM4 CPUs anymore. I just consider myself lucky to be able to get this CPU because it will extend my AM4 experience for many years to come. Oh yeah, I'll also get that Uncharted Bundle this time!
I might use the money I saved to get some much faster RAM. I'll have to see what's out there.
EDIT: Oops, nope. The 5800X3D apparently derives no gaming benefit from DDR4 clocked above 3200MHz (which I already have). Maybe I'll just get 16GB more of it!
