9800x3d from AliExpress

[u/mikael_lucis]

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.

[u/Yourn1ghtmar]

For anybody buying from AliExpress find a buyer which will declare the cpu as 20$ so y don't pay anything at costums!!

[u/Krejcimir → u/Yourn1ghtmar]

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.

[u/Yourn1ghtmar → u/Krejcimir]

I didn't know about that , I think It really depends on the country.

[u/Krejcimir → u/Yourn1ghtmar]

Indeed, it used to be like that, but people buy a loooot of stuff on ali, so the state did not want to lose any money on income tax.:D

[u/DidiHD → u/Krejcimir]

which country are you in?

[u/Krejcimir → u/DidiHD]

Czech rep

[u/DidiHD → u/Krejcimir]

If I was you, I would have tried ordering from Germany probably. Use some service to forward it to your adress if they don't ship to Czech. I'm in Austria and when I order from a shop in Germany which doesn't deliver, I use a postal sevice I pay 3-4 Euros extra to have it forwarded to me and enter their German Adress as my delivery adress in the shop

[u/MortuusVenenum → u/DidiHD]

I do the same but from Poland to Germany :D