Reasons being but not limited to:
Price
Deals/Clearance sales
Your preferred mobo being so expensive that it made you settle for the competitor's CPU
RAM speeds not as high or latency not as low as you would like
Pissed at a company due to past bad experience so went to the competitor out of spite, this being a very hard thing for you to do
Some mobo or CPU missing a feature you would prefer
Impatience
Mental math justification to settle for an inferior CPU
My story:
I'm not the proud owner of a 12700K. I'm not proud coz it's inferior to Ryzen in many ways (don't ask me how. Read other threads here. Don't want to get into that). It all started coz I won a lottery of $6000. Now I could've spent it all on some crazy high end system with everything maxed out. But no. I decided to be frugal and get a lot of used hardware that I always wanted but couldn't afford. So first I saw the ASROCK Z790 Sonic mobo. I had no intention or desire for buying into either AM4/AM5 or Z690/Z790. But I like flashy stuff and there was nothing like that on the AM5 side at the time (I think few months later, ASROCK released a B650 Sonic mobo. Doh!) so got it new for $249. Then someone here was selling their 12700K for $240 when new was priced around $400. Of course I had to jump on that too. Got a used EXPO 32GB 5600 rated kit for $90 also from here. At the time, my thinking was that I would later upgrade to the 13900KS or the 14900KS and it would extend the life of my system for an extra 3 or 4 years. This was before adroc decided to jump on here and ruined my plans with his predictions of highest ever desktop ST performance in Zen 5. So we'll see how the benchmarks go and I might wait for the Zen 5 X3D to make the jump to AM5 if everything turns out to be true and Arrow Lake turns out to be a useless piece of dud like Raptor Lake Refresh.
So that's my story for why I don't feel so hot about my hardware. Curious if there are others here who were forced to make some sort of compromise due to circumstances beyond their control. This is kind of a venting thread if you will.
Price
Deals/Clearance sales
Your preferred mobo being so expensive that it made you settle for the competitor's CPU
RAM speeds not as high or latency not as low as you would like
Pissed at a company due to past bad experience so went to the competitor out of spite, this being a very hard thing for you to do
Some mobo or CPU missing a feature you would prefer
Impatience
Mental math justification to settle for an inferior CPU
My story:
I'm not the proud owner of a 12700K. I'm not proud coz it's inferior to Ryzen in many ways (don't ask me how. Read other threads here. Don't want to get into that). It all started coz I won a lottery of $6000. Now I could've spent it all on some crazy high end system with everything maxed out. But no. I decided to be frugal and get a lot of used hardware that I always wanted but couldn't afford. So first I saw the ASROCK Z790 Sonic mobo. I had no intention or desire for buying into either AM4/AM5 or Z690/Z790. But I like flashy stuff and there was nothing like that on the AM5 side at the time (I think few months later, ASROCK released a B650 Sonic mobo. Doh!) so got it new for $249. Then someone here was selling their 12700K for $240 when new was priced around $400. Of course I had to jump on that too. Got a used EXPO 32GB 5600 rated kit for $90 also from here. At the time, my thinking was that I would later upgrade to the 13900KS or the 14900KS and it would extend the life of my system for an extra 3 or 4 years. This was before adroc decided to jump on here and ruined my plans with his predictions of highest ever desktop ST performance in Zen 5. So we'll see how the benchmarks go and I might wait for the Zen 5 X3D to make the jump to AM5 if everything turns out to be true and Arrow Lake turns out to be a useless piece of dud like Raptor Lake Refresh.
So that's my story for why I don't feel so hot about my hardware. Curious if there are others here who were forced to make some sort of compromise due to circumstances beyond their control. This is kind of a venting thread if you will.
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