No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?

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No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?
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For me, it's because:

  • I have a 5950X and it seems pointless to upgrade from there. Sure the new stuff is faster, but disproportionately so for the price. I would need to replace a bunch of components.
  • I recently upgraded to 128GB RAM, and it was cheaper to do that with DDR4
  • I've had 2 faulty Ryzen processors (1700X, then my first 5950X), and I've learned to wait until the kinks are ironed out.

Out for curiosity, why do you need 128gb of ram?

As of yet, I don't. But the idea is I eventually move my VM/container host back to my more powerful desktop machine. It also runs Gentoo, so now I can build everything in RAM, even large packages like Firefox, without having to close other programs.