This week's Market Watch read: GPU prices sitting almost exactly where they sat last week, three Ryzen desktop chips priced lower and still under MSRP, and a RAM kit that took five passes to finally get its first price.
This week's Market Watch read: the first DE/FR/NL/UK numbers alongside US pricing, and a batch of same-day 7-day trend figures worth reading with real skepticism.
First weekly digest from our own price tracker: 59 GPUs, CPUs, and DDR5 kits across US retail lanes. Blackwell premiums are holding, every desktop CPU we track sits below launch MSRP, and most 32GB DDR5-6000 kits hover near $500.
Discontinued X3D gaming CPUs have been selling far above their launch prices, with AM4 parts hit hardest. AMD's answer is unusual: reissue a four-year-old CPU and downclock a current one, both under $350. Here is what shipped, what it costs, and who each chip is actually for.
