TL;DR: Buying a Ryzen 5000 processor or an RTX 3000-series graphics card proper now’s akin to getting an viewers with the pope, however there’s a strategy to seize the newest Nvidia GPUs and, ultimately, the brand new AMD CPUs: purchase a pre-built Corsair a7200 sequence PC.
Regardless of each corporations’ finest efforts, the RTX 3000 and Ryzen 5000 elements have been stricken by availability points since launch, partly as a consequence of scalpers snapping them up in bulk and reselling the {hardware} on eBay for inflated costs.
The excellent news for these seeking to improve their ageing, potato-like PCs is that Corsair’s new Vengeance a7200 might be configured with a Ryzen 7 5800 X, Ryzen 9 5900X, or Intel’s Core i9-10850K together with an RTX 3090, RTX 3080, or RTX 3070.
Sadly, it appears even Corsair can’t safe a Ryzen 5000 processor in the intervening time. The one configurations at present obtainable encompass Intel’s chip paired with an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. The previous comes with 32GB of DDR4 3200, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD + 2TB HDD, and Home windows 10 Residence, and is priced at $2,800. Whereas the latter ups the reminiscence to 64GB of DDR4 3200, has two 2TB M.2 NVMe SSDs, and Home windows 10 Professional, pushing the worth to a hefty $4,500.
Consumers additionally get a Z490 motherboard, a 4000D Airflow mid-tower case, and an H100i RGB Platinum all-in-one liquid cooler.
Whereas it’s a disgrace that the Ryzen 5000 CPUs aren’t at present obtainable, that is a minimum of one, admittedly costly, strategy to personal an RTX 3080/3090 with out placing cash within the palms of scalpers.
