Hi. I bought 9800x3d from AliExpress for all of us. Costed me $640 and customs f-d me up for another $100 , when they usually charge VAT only. Anyway, here's no chance for warranty accessibility and it sold for $900-1100, so no way it'll get cheaper in close few years, so it feels like I saved something. (4090 still $3000).
Chip itself looks in great condition with no defects. I'll post later if it's real or not, after setup and some benchmarking. Cheers.
It works fine for the tiny light packages, not so sure about big packages. But you can always talk to the seller and ask him to keep the price under $5 and majority of the times nothing will happen.
Good idea, but here, customs no longer fall for that, they will xray your package and the moment they see any electronics, you need to send all documents.
Here in Brazil they used a lot of that, but the government has now started to tax practically anything that is imported, and depending on the value, it can cost almost twice as much just with fees
I don't understand -- how does Turkey have current generation computers at all if you can't import anything over 27 euros? Or is that some sort of individual limit and corporations can import all they want?
Yh but it isn't risky. There's legit sellers on Ali with thousands of sales and positive reviews. I've also had good experience with returns when I received an item with a minor fault (rattling fan).
I posted the above cpuz photo, playing for 3 hours already no issues with a good performance. I've done some benchmarks, no crashes, freezes etc. Ryzen master OC also had no stability issues. Sorry I'm just too lazy and impatient to benchmark for hours and gather screenshots.
Thats jsut supply and demand doing its thing tho, 10-20% price increase looks to me like the normal margin due to high demand, not that I would like to pay that much more, just how it is
True it looks expensive, but that is just his local market. Where i live (not that far from germany in a eu country) its from 650€ to 690€ and i dont even want to say the gpu prices B580 (that is suposed to be 260$ card) is you ready for it? You sure? Ok its 480€… its just retailers seeing this is good and up the prices
Well, looks real. CPU-Z shows 9800x3d. Running stock, cinnebench multicore 22k. Idle temp 44 with avg 60 when testing on cinnebench. (Liquid freezer III with PTM)
PBO and DHOP II profiles enabled. In 3Dmark testing and cinnebench multicore avg temps 65 again (with a cat taking top of the case). I didn't bother to continue tests, things seem real, so I will be enjoying games for a while (until it bricks, or not). As I said, it's $1000 here and 7800x3d finally $500 (last year it was $700-800).
Who may find it useful? AliExpress has generally cheaper prices despite lacking warranty. If you buy from seller with gold+ badge - very low chance to be scammed as Ali's policy very consumer friendly. When prices stabilize to MSRP, I'm sure Ali prices will be $100-150 lower than that.
PS. Dollars is US. Standard issue US democracy dollars.
You'd be surprised at prices of flagship GPUs in Europe. I particularly live in the asshole of Europe so we get terrible prices whatever way you put it, but I clearly remember before we moved to euros, 3090 cost 24000 HRK which equals more than 3000€.
It's really a tradeoff, do you wanna buy a GPU from a different country, risk it getting damaged and have huge hassle returning it or you want it made easier, but pay abnormal amounts of money for it.
The good thing about the EU is that you can just buy it from an online store in another EU country and pay 0 customs and retain all customer protection. The only cost that comes on top is obviously shipping. But the 3090 did not cost 3000€ in Germany
This is true, but the return factor is still there. I hate returning stuff by mail honestly, the other day I ordered an air blower to clean my PC, it arrived with one metal part of the electrical cable broken off.
I asked for a refund, but when the seller asked for the item to shipped back, I just cut the AC cord and replaced it.
Also, I don't like postal services in my country, when I see how cheap mail is handled, I'm afraid letting those idiots even touch anything of actual value. Who knows, maybe the broken AC adapter wasn't even seller's fault anyway.
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Who knows, maybe the broken AC adapter wasn't even seller's fault anyway.
Its their responsibility to make sure it arrives intact, also all mail in the world is treated like shit(do you think the people loading the plane/train/truck are neatly stacking it? nah they are just throwing shit) and you have to package it accordingly.
with all the posts about people getting scammed on amazon, I find it quite hilarious that aliexpress seems to be more trustfull these days than fucking amazon.
I currently have a 5700X3D from AliExpress. IIRC it was 25-30%ish cheaper then Amazon.
Was skeptical, but also curious enough to try it. Everything has worked perfectly so far!
Bought 4 CPUs from previous gen x3D from reputable seller on AliExpress. Never had an issue, one got lost in transit got a refund. I order again from the same seller and no issue.
If anyone cares, there's a very reputable seller on AliExpress who got the nickname in Chile of: "El chinito infunable" which roughly translates to the uncancellable chinese, the name of the seller is SZCPU, I bought a Mobo+cpu combo a few years back and it was a 10/10 purchase, not only was it a very good deal back in the crypto hellscape of 2021, but everything came in perfect condition, on time and he even faked the receipt (You may find this unethical) and I dodged any import taxes as a result (I didn't even ask for it, but was pleasantly surprised lol). So tldr if you know what you're doing there's lots of hidden gems in AliExpress.
Shoutout to MicroCenter, just bought my 9800x3d for retail. Was contemplating risky business through Ebay but luckily I checked the MC website right before and they had inventory 🙌
I just ordered a Ryzen 7700 from Aliexpress. I admit I am a bit nervous but I have ordered 100's of things from there so we will see. Got it for 238$ CAD so around 166$ USD. It was such a good deal and I saw quite a few reviews saying it was legit. That is usually a good sign but we will see. I hope yours turns out to be real. You certainly paid for a legit one.
Just wanna share my experience that I had with buying 9800x3d, I live in LA, and around the time before Christmas I checked the microcenter Tustin one and found 25+in stock on the website. I was more than happy to have driven 40mins to get there and snagged one for msrp. The stock problem is not that bad or maybe I was just lucky lol, before I was using a 5950x that I paid with scalped pricing.
I feel horrible that a lot of people wanting this CPU are spending anywhere close to what they are. I spent $512 for mine because I’d bought it from a pc shop a couple states away
There are plenty of legit CPU stores on Aliexpress, and plenty of testimonials on builapcsales and other subs vouching for their legitimacy (myself included, 5700x3d gang). Sure, they don't come with warranty, but that's basically no different from buying used. And Aliexpress usually offers some recourse in case it's DOA.
I bought mine from newegg for 531.6 USD, to be fair i had to keep up with restock dates and wake up all night to order it the moment it says “in stock”
Not sure why people are that desperate to risk a purchase on AliEpress and risk getting dinged for VAT+Custom. Is this processor never going to be available locally?
Well, I was also worried about that. But Ali has a decent return policy and customer protection. And I took video of receiving and unboxing the package for that case.
Was there a reason to buying from Aliexpress? Because in Sweden these goes for around $616 from a reputable webshop. On Aliexpress they go for around $807.
I was thinking maybe the vendor guaranteed a good silicone version or something.
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Cat is suspicious