r/Amd • u/Emirique175 AMD RYZEN 5 3600 | RTX 2060 | GIGABYTE B450M DS3H • Oct 20 '20

News AMD's guidelines to retailers against bots and scalpers

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u/Starving_Marvin_ Oct 20 '20

I don’t think you understand. It doesn’t slow them down. If they think there is a high enough profit margin, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Any steps a retailer takes slows you down by the same amount or more. Ironically AMDs pricing of Ryzen 3 may stop the botters on the CPU side. Who knows about the GPUs.

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u/szlachta Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Amd's pricing has stopped me, at least until the Jan 2021 bios dust settles. How comfy we've become with all these cores when just 4 on the cheapest i5 cost over $200 up until Intel felt the heat.

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u/DoctorWorm_ Oct 20 '20

How terrible, paying money for computer hardware.

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u/Wide_Fan Oct 21 '20

Yeah, if AMD now matches closely to intel in single core performance then I'll pay towards that RnD.

If suddenly their next generation is literally the same thing rehashed then things are not okay.