"Even the 10900k is retailing for 54k, I have seen it under 45k, maybe 3 months to 4 months ago."
yes with the problems tsmc facing with water shortage (they have a drought in Taiwan for past couple of months) (goodbye yields) prices are going to skyrocket for everything from mobiles to tvs to computer hardware etc.
ryzen 5600x 5800x is already out of stock in most online stores here in india even though they were sold at msrp (not due to high demand or their ridiculous prices) but yield issues at tsmc 5900x and 5950x is not yet available at msrp in india unless you want to pay scalper prices (5900x at 74k at one point.)
rocket lake release will be the same overprice nonsense aorund the world
things are only going to get worse for another 8 months at least before stock and prices stabilize. for both gpus ans cpus
my only logic behind selling the 9900k at 25k was that it is new from rma so it will easily out last its limited warranty left (they never die so easily unless your motherboard vrms die like in my case) and outperforms a closely priced 5600x.
and all the problems at tsmc and covid-19 skyrocketing new hardware prices or stock issues
by the way amd prices without 18% gst ( so correct msrp of 5900x should be 50k 5800x 40k 5600x 28k 5950x at 74k)
hopefully lets see if the 5900x releases at msrp next month with new stock arrival this should get you an idea where hardware prices are headed in the coming months. lol with gpus
we already know.