12 PCWorld AUGUST 2019NEWS
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How excited are PC fans for AMD’s new Ryzen chips? They lined up to buy the CPUs on
launch day. BY GORDON MAH UNGT
hat long line you see in the
photo above isn’t for the latest
Avengers movie or a new pair of
Jordan sneakers going on sale.
Instead, the lines outside your local computer
store on July 7 were PC enthusiasts waiting to
buy AMD’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 3000
CPUs. Yes—a desktop CPU.
Micro Center officials confirmed to
PCWorld the next day that several of its storeshad PC DIYers lined up to buy AMD’s
much-hyped CPU when they went on sale
early in the morning. AMD, for its part, has
described the launch of the new Ryzen
3000 series as “historic” and described
demand as “significant.”
For Joe and Jane DIY, the excitement meant
queuing up for AMD’s 6 a.m. Eastern launch.
Fortunately, as our Ryzen 9 3900X review
demonstrates (see page 25), the wait was