While I agree that they are not making enough of them, why do you pull numbers like that from nowhere?
Mindfactory alone has already sold over 2,230 in Germany. That's one site in one country (that doesn't sell outside of Germany) - there is no way they had more than a couple precent of the chips - this alone shows that they definitely must have made over 10K
. . . seriously? Did you see their last allocation? They had 2k+ going to multiple warehouses, and they arrived earlier in this month. They're all gone. And that's just one retail outlet.
I dont know if other warehouses in the EU have received a lot more than Germany, but at least at Mindfactory and Alternate they have not received more than 1.5K combined.
I ordered (with gold service option) from Mindfactory.de when the
"sold" count was less than 1K around second week of July and I have never received it. I wrote to them an email and they said second week of Aug, then third week of Aug, then second week of Sep.
I also ordered a second one from Alternate for a friend and same story, they keep shifting the dates. Now it is September.
Sold does not mean delivered.
I also bought an Athlon 200GE thinking it is second Gen to check out my X570 board turns out it does not work just like my 1700X, I have not seen the BIOS of my X570 board
For a while when they were saying second week of Aug I started assembling, now after repeated delays I assembled everything in the case and stored the case back in its box and just put it in some corner.
I took out the XFX RX 5700XT which I planned to go with the R9 3900X and used it with my 1700X build. Turns out the 1700X is bottle necking my RX 5700XT, GPU usage is most of time around 60%
Additionaly I wanted to start setting my VM for a new project and I don't wanna do it on my 1700X because migrating big vmdisks is a pain, I have been postponing my project for a bit too.
I am quite unhappy with this delay. On the other hand it might be a good thing as I dont need to bother with the early problems like I had with my 1700X. I bought it on the first day of availability and got it a day later. BIOS issues, crashes, seg faults, corrupted VMs, took almost five months to stabilize. The delay might not be so bad after all.