News U.S. Retailer Gives Free 32GB DDR5-5600 Kit with Ryzen 7000 CPU

[Deleted member 14196]

If prices were fair and CORRECT the all units made would be all units sold

these pukes are too f’ing greedy. They also have no concept of Econ 101. Charging more than what the market will bear is a losing proposition. This is evidenced by all the hardware, sitting on the shelves, and not moving.

 

[PEnns]

Holy cow, this is a nice deal. Why u no EU, MicroCenter? Why? T_T

Regards.

Even in the US, you won't find a MicroCenter so widespread and available, unless you live in a huge city or a metro area.

MicroCenter has exactly 25 locations only. In some places you have to travel 12+ hours to get to one!!

And they don't ship everything (not sure if they ship anything of value at all!), especially CPUs, GPUs, Mobos...they are "Available for In-Store Pickup Only".

 

[LolaGT]

If you have to buy something, it isn't free.

Still looks like a deal, I guess.

I have one that is 90 minutes away, but actually getting to it and getting in and out takes that much time again. So I rarely ever bother.

 

[shady28]

I do wonder if AMD is supporting and or reimbursing this "giveaway" and with Micro Center handing-out free 32GB DDR5-5600 of memory. That is worth about $180 plus all by itself. Very strange and with the AMD 7000 series still being fresh off the press. Thoughts?

It's meant to get you in the store, like a holiday doorbuster.

I looked it up when it came out, finally found the memory while adding stuff to my cart.

For one, you couldn't reserve it, it was 'while supplies last'.

For another it was 'in-store-only'. First come, first serve.

If you've done "Black Friday" in-store shopping, you know the drill.

It's sold out, first day. Probably before it even hit the tech media websites.

There's probably 100 happy folks who got a great deal here in a metro of 10M people.

Then there's the 3000 poor SoBs who drove across the metro and bought something they otherwise would not have bought, because you know when you drive across a big very busy city you're not just going to walk off empty handed.

The deal was not for the first 100. It was for the other 3000, only they didn't get the deal they thought they were getting.

 

[Deleted member 431422]

Just stop... stop saying there's a global decline in PC sales. It returns to pre pandemic levels. I heard the same BS story for the past decade and somehow Intel had a record profits each year. Same with Nvidia. It's corporate financial propaganda, you don't need to repeat it each article.

 

[eye4bear]

I got to visit a MicroCenter store only once, when visiting friends who lived at the time in Detroit. They are GREAT stores, but there are only 25 locations. Wish they had one down here in Southeast Florida... Hey Microcenter, Metro population of over 6.5 million (Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm) and no large PC stores like yours.

 

[helper800]

I got to visit a MicroCenter store only once, when visiting friends who lived at the time in Detroit. They are GREAT stores, but there are only 25 locations. Wish they had one down here in Southeast Florida... Hey Microcenter, Metro population of over 6.5 million (Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm) and no large PC stores like yours.

It would be great to have more of them so people could have more options. I luckily live only 30 minutes from one and take advantage of that as much as I can.

 

[-Fran-]

Where is the news of Newegg bundling DDR4 (yes, FOUR) with the X670 boards?

I'm also looking forward how some very special people will spin that to blame AMD, someway, somehow xD

Source:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBDN2x0Lho


https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3693-hw-news-newegg-broken-combos-z790-psu-rtx-4090

Regards

 

[KyaraM]

Where is the news of Newegg bundling DDR4 (yes, FOUR) with the X670 boards?

I'm also looking forward how some very special people will spin that to blame AMD, someway, somehow xD

Source:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBDN2x0Lho


https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3693-hw-news-newegg-broken-combos-z790-psu-rtx-4090

Regards

You would think a specialized like Newegg would have staff knowledgeable enough to at least pick DDR5 RAM for their bundles, no matter how crappy, lmao...

 

[-Fran-]

Oh, interesting. Tom from MLiD said this was AMD giving the rebate for the DDR5 memory with MicroCenter.

So it was AMD at the end!

But why MC only? Testing the waters?

Regards.

 

[helper800]

Oh, interesting. Tom from MLiD said this was AMD giving the rebate for the DDR5 memory with MicroCenter.

So it was AMD at the end!

But why MC only? Testing the waters?

Regards.

Probably MC only because MC asked for it. If the rebate was for everywhere it may have cost AMD too much money?

 

[-Fran-]

Probably MC only because MC asked for it. If the rebate was for everywhere it may have cost AMD too much money?

No idea. Both approaches fit reality, so AMD could come clean about it at some point.

Regards.