The Ryzen 5000 launch was no different from Nvidia’s release of its RTX 3000 graphics cards: We got a website crash, a delayed email notification, and any available stock was immediately snatched up.
(Credit: AMD) If you’re trying to buy AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 CPUs, good luck. The new processors sold out within minutes on the first day of sales. We tried to snag one Thursday morning at 6 a.m. PST when sales officially began, but we ran into some challenges. On Newegg, the Ryzen 5900X and 5950X were sold out by 6:01 a.m.(Credit: Newegg) We were able to reach the checkout process on a 5800X and 5600X processor bundled with some RAM. But they were sold out by around 6:04 a.m. and 6:10 a.m., respectively. The situation was worse on AMD’s official website. The company was selling all four processors, but when we attempted to buy them, AMD’s website repeatedly crashed.
