a PC world fans Adam here with Gordon and we get a lot of questions on our
podcast the full nerd that you can tune into but sometimes we get the same
questions over and over and over again and one of them and specifically I want
to address here in the past year we've had a lot of high profile launches the
RT X's the 9900 KS a 3900 X's and a lot of times we get supply constraints and
people want to kind of chime in and say oh well you know it's because of this or
because of that you know and kind of say oh it's it's a paper launch how much
should we actually look into the supply constraints and and why does it happen
do you think I well I think it it definitely varies between there are
always different reasons there are supply issues making enough of them they
generally seem to stick at the high end though 900k those 9th can parts were
hard to come by 3,900 x launched on July 7th sold out
July 7th it's August still a month later I just check you still can't buy these
things and most of the popular retailers are key X of course
really really hard to come by those RT X xx ATT eyes we're very difficult to find
for at least what two maybe three months ago oh wow yeah you know I think a lot
of us because you know clearly they don't have enough of them they this is
not them just sitting on them in a warehouse and not sending them out to
sell it's because they just don't have enough of them that could be issues with
process we didn't make enough of these the other thing is these are very on the
high end parts they're harder to make so 900k is basically probably not every
single CPU coming out from Intel he's gonna hit 99 jerk a clocks for 3900 X
it's two dice not one die for every 3700 X AMD can sell you know - for every 3900
X they could tell sell to 3,700 X's true true so and the for RTX you know
everything is it's always almost at the high end
I think it's because if you're Andy you're Intel you're Nvidia you sort of
figure well a lot of people are gonna buy the mainstream price one this
high-end part we're not gonna make you know it's not 80% of the production run
is on the high end just so it's hard it's truck sort of hard to forecast
because of Intel says oh we're gonna make I don't know 10 million ninety nine
hundred case they'd be sitting on 900 case till their ears come out right
so they try to forecast what demands gonna be to basically make sure they
sell them all and I think they're under estimating the popularity of the very
high-end parts 39 here Jax has been really hard to get
because it's very it's it's an awesome chip rights an awesome chef same thing
with all these things and I I think it's cuz these vendors go like wait we didn't
think people would go out and buy these things and videos like we charge you
twelve hundred dollars and you still bought every twenty atti for months
right so from their point of view you know it's bad they don't happen to sell
you you're good angry but at the same time they didn't end up with an
oversupply of the parts and part of it I remain in my heart I do believe they
underestimate the demand for high-end parts okay yeah I don't think there's a
conspiracy there's no conspiracy there's no you know Indiana Jones warehouse full
of them and it's just simply they don't have the parts they're harder to make
and they there was very conservative you don't want to get stuck with the whole
ton of expensive things you can't sell for the rest of the year and let me say
something you know if you pre-ordered your part you could have gotten it like
you for pure pre-ordered any of the 3900 X you would have got it that well but
Gordon hold up you tell me never do and you and Brad yeah they never to provide
a brief of that you gotta wait for the reviews wait for the the third-party
that's a price to pay the price to pay is yeah
you're not gonna if it's really a hit you're not gonna get it huh so I know
everybody's ogre or never pre-order and I do that too but you know at the same
time sitting at home at their shiny Park for
three months while you're sitting there with bupkis so well do you hear is up
that plus to them do you think there is anything that can be done to kind of
mitigate this should they should they do like the 39 50x and wait a couple months
to release it or you know should they just not take as many pre-orders or like
what how can they get around this this problem because it seems like every time
one of these happens people get angry you know and then they want to know why
it's happening I don't I don't think there is and I think the thing to do is
always be conservative your if it's your money and your aim the stockholder you
want them to be conservative you don't want them to like end up with a whole
truckload of these things going nowhere same thing with Intel you just you want
to try to match the supply and I don't think that's easy to do pre-orders
actually do kind of help that a little bit but you know what everybody says all
pre-orders so um I don't think that's it's there's nothing you can do
maybe go out and stand in front of micro Center the day comes out by like people
did with their ice and nine so yeah so earlier you saying that it sure it's
hard to buy like a 900 K at launch or 3900 X but what about the other part so
they don't seem to be that constrained yeah and I just checked earlier when I
was looking for a 3900 X's and I could go to stores and add a 3700 X I could
add a 3600 to my basket I could buy it and I had the money so you know a month
later supplies those are definitely better at the high end again probably
they did not properly forecast to meet the demand but that is not necessarily a
bad problem to have all the time so and you know eventually if you wait long
enough it all goes away you can get 2080 TI's and ninety nine hundred KS all day
now so that's not a problem you just gotta wait you're not gonna be
the first one to have it not necessarily it was a bad thing to wait to so I think
it's okay alright well thank you for answering my question Gordon and tell
them in the comments below if he's wrong you know yeah or if you think this is
actually more seriously yeah or or why we should pre-order nah right Gordon
yeah throw anyway if you want to get your question in its the full nerd at
PCWorld calm you can email us there if we don't answer it on the show
maybe we'll answer it in a segment like this so thanks for taking the time out
to answer these questions Gordon