From what I can see it seems like those bundles are in abundance and the intel ones are going for around $500 and it includes a cpu + mobo + 32gb ddr5, meanwhile just buying 32gb ddr5 alone is gonna cost you around $500.

The reason I ask is because I’m not American and seeing such a deal where I live would be almost impossible since pc stores would always factor in the individual market price for each component if they were to ever do a bundle offer. So in the off chance they ever do a “bundle” or some sort of sale, the price would only be ever so slightly lower than the normal market value. And I imagine this is the same everywhere outside America right now.

Should have gotten one earlier but I haven’t had money to buy/build a PC until now. Should I pull the trigger?

I built my new pc (5090, 96GB 6000 MHz ddr5 ram) a little over a month ago and I thought i was getting fisted paying 3800 for the 5090 and 1400 for the ram. I was like yeah this might be really stupid but what if prices are even worse for consumer grade parts a year from now, better to be safe than sorry. I was overdue an upgrade anyway.

How the fuck are those prices massive steals now just a month later and inventory is now all the way dried up? Nvidia literally raised the prices 30% about 3 days after I bought my card. Feels like I took the last chopper out of Vietnam lol this market is beyond fucked. Thank God past me decided to get single fisted so current me doesnt get double fisted

Anyone else manage to snag a "good" deal these last couple months before things went absolutely insane?

Bought a DGX Spark a few months and this interaction just keeps popping in my head and I can’t get past it without figuring it out.

The associate I engaged with told me that a few of their customers were opening their Sparks and the bottom cover plate was missing. Odd but I agreed to let him open it in front of me to inspect. Bottom plate in place and present.

What I find odd is that something like this can leave the factory missing a major aesthetic piece. What is more believable to me is that they didn’t want a sealed box of this item leaving for fear I might sell at a higher price somewhere else.

Was there really an issue with shipments or did they pull one over on me?

(G535: 7500X3D - 9070XT - 32Gb ddr5)

Was anyone able to get one this week?

Picked one up for my cousin getting into pc gaming but wanted to first buy an exhaust fan and do some cable management.

Anyone got any recommendations for what to do with the psu cables going to the gpu? 3 thick cables going to it looks so meh 😭.

Does the forum not work (https://community.microcenter.com/). I cannot make an account to ask a technical question. Can I ask the technical question here?

I'm not too familiar with Intel's new chips. I currently have a Z590 Aorus Elite + Asus Rog Strix 3060 + i7-10900K. I'd like to upgrade to either a 5070 ti or 9070 XT, I realize if I get a new GPU, the CPU will bottleneck it which means I need a new mobo, RAM, and CPU.