AMD recently announced that the situation with the Ryzen 5000 will continue at least through the end of this quarter. They might as well not exist. If Intel launches Rocket Lake-S in volume — and why wouldn't they, since that 14nm process must be pretty well dialed in by now — they might have the best product on the market again.

I would really, desperately, like a more equitable way of distributing the option to buy these parts. I absolutely refuse to pay scalpers and let them win... but many others quite obviously are.

Is there some way for me as a consumer to get into a pool and wait for RNG to give me a shot at buying the parts I need for my normal refresh cycle? My 6 year old desktop was due for it's rebuild this last year. X.X

As someone who knows nothing about this space, is there a reason GPU manufacturers don’t increase their prices so they get the extra money that is now going to scalpers, and then reinvest that into manufacturing so they can increase supply and then lower prices back to current levels but with stock?

I don't know; and I'd at least be happier with a dutch auction approach where AMD got the lions share of sales of their CPUs and GPUs so that the money could be invested in either more products soon, or better development later. At least in that case economically unnecessary middle-person impediments to customer fulfillment wouldn't reap the creator's profits.

EVGA has a sign up sheet. They'll email you when it's your turn and you have some number of hours to complete the order (don't remember the exact amount of time you get). Note that at this point it'll likely be months before you make it to the head of the line.

I just checked; sadly it seems to only be for Nvidia hardware, which has very crummy open source driver support on my OS of choice: Linux.

This would be a great option that retailers could implement. A small deposit would give you a lottery entry, max one per person.

Any problems come to mind?