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Changing things up a bit this week, I moved the weekly summary tab to the start. So mas madali na siya makita ngayon. I think this will probably be more useful for a lot of us na we don't need to go super granular. We just want to see the trends. So weekly summary muna tayo. The last time we did this was at week 15. So this is the last week where we had an episode on not much of a change. So nanita tayo sa portion of year na wala masyadong price changes. Although there have been a lot of promos recently for rise in 7,000. AMD is becoming a little desperate to try to jumpstart adoption of the 7,000. Kasi sobrang popular pa rin ng 5,000 series. It's really good performance for the price that you're paying for. Victim of its own success, the AMD dito. They have been trying to get 7,000 series sales going, but there's still a lot of love for the 5,000 series. Recently may promos, both MSI and Gigabyte in conjunction with AMD to try to get the 7,000 series moving forward. But based on the last price watch episode, so 1650, no price change release, like price bump ba taas ba very minor. For the 3050, again, slight price increase. 3060, slight price decrease. 3080, it's really hard to look at the data here kasi if you look in the granular level, isang shop na lang kasi ito eh. Out of the four shops that we follow, only one of them has a 3080 left in stock. Pero this is actually a very good price for the 3080, around 41,000 pesos. To be honest, I'm seeing supplier prices na mas mahal pa dito. So we can't get you a 3080, but it would be more expensive. Even if we just sold you at the dealer price, wala pa kaming patong dun. It would be more expensive than this 41,000 pesos for 3080. I think what's happening, yung ibang suppliers na ipit din bumili sila at a more expensive rate. So they're kind of stuck at selling the GPU at that price, but they're offering a lot of freebies with it. Pero a lot of customers are bottom line. I don't really need a lot of freebies. What I would like is just a cheaper graphics card. So if you're looking for a 3080, this price is very good. For the 4080, slight price increase actually from 84 or so na ging 86. And the 4090, very slight price decrease. You notice with NVIDIA GPUs, may chance pa na tumaasile, but usually sa AMD, the opposite, usually babagsak yan. Yes, the 6500XT buck the trend a little. So from around 13,000 pesos, week 15, current week, week 20, na ging 13,000. So around the 400 pesos difference. But overall, you can see a big price difference here, 31 to 28. That's roughly around 10% price difference. Even for the 7,000XTX, which is the flagship card for this generation, 71,000 pesos roughly five weeks ago, that's just about 68,000. So with AMD cards, usually the price will go down. Bihira lang yan na tataas. Unlike NVIDIA, na kita natin sa NVIDIA na medyo akit baba talaga. I mean, di kamagulat kung umakiat yung NVIDIA prices. But for AMD prices, usually they will trend downward. So the longer you wait, bababa talaga yung preso ng AMD graphics cards. Which, you know, is kind of a good thing. 1,000 series cards are good value for money now. It's just it's kind of hard to recommend sometimes because driver-wise, mas maganda pa rin drivers ng NVIDIA. There's less cost for concern. For AMD kasi apaminsan, you know, you're kind of iffy like, kailang ko babay tweet to. So if you're an experienced PC hardware guy, no problem. In fact, you like tweaking. In fact, you like spending hours making sure na sobrang optimized ng system mo. But if you're a more casual kind of user, medyo mahirap talagang i-recommend yung AMD. Nand kaya kami dito sa shop, pa minsan ayun namin i-stock yung AMD. Not because we favor NVIDIA, it's just because of the driver issues of AMD babalik yung customer sa amin, sasabihin na, oh, si Ratong card na binenta mo sa akin, gusto ko na refund. When there's nothing wrong with the hardware, yung problema lang, yun nga, di maganda yung driver software issue, wala na kami magawa nun because it is a software problem rather than a hardware problem. And depending on the customer, it can be very difficult to explain to the customer that the hardware is working fine. Even if it's working fine, bakit nga naka-crash sa game? But if you're an experienced PC guy, you know that there can be hardware issues, there could also be software issues, and those are completely separate. Pero mahirap ay paliwanag, especially if they're just starting out with computer hardware. So for ease of use, NVIDIA is really recommended. But if you're going for price to performance and you don't need cutting edge RTX performance or you don't need fancy DLSS, even though AMD has its own equivalent, it's just, you know, maybe not as good. But for certain games and you don't mind potential headaches, AMD really is the way to go. Better value for money. On the CPU side of things, AMD hasn't really dropped in price. So that's everything I talked about kanina para sa mga GPU lang yan. For the 7 950X, Rock solid hasn't changed prices at all, still at 35,745. 7600X has dropped actually around roughly almost 2,000 pesos drop. The 7600X actually has dropped around 1,000 pesos. So again, trying to kind of bring the price down, AMD is to encourage more people to try out the 7000 series. 5600X still doing very well. Main stateong 5600. Actually all of the mainstream 5,000 series AMD CPUs, 5600X, 5800X, 5700, 5600, 5500, all of those guys are really selling still popular with a lot of people. The 5600G has gone up just very slightly by around 100 pesos. R53600 has seen a very good price drop. So this is three generations behind, but just two generations if you skip the 4,000 series. The 4,000 series was initially meant just for OEMs, but AMD eventually released them to consumers. But in my mind that's kind of like a lost generation. We don't even stock it in the shop. So it's 3,000 series and 5,000 series. Although technically it is two generations behind the ready because you had the 4,000 then the 3,000. But the R53600 is very enticing at this price point from mid 8,000 to around mid 5,000. So you pair that with an A320, B450, that's a solid build right there. There's been a lot of news lately na hindi nag-meet nung performance expectations yung Revenue New Intel last year. So 2022 was a terrible year for Intel. It's not like they lost money but the margins, the profit margins really shrank. Everybody panicked. Everybody in Intel panicked and there was these massive, we're gonna lay off, we're gonna shut these data centers, these R&D centers and things like that. But bottom line on the ground, Intel 13th gen, actually quite popular with customers at Hardware Sugar. Pinakahiyan the CPU, 3,900K. No significant price difference. So maybe we have a 1,000 peso price drop or so. 3,600K. Also slight easing around an 800 peso price drop from 20,700 to 19,995 or basically 20,000. We do include a 12th gen just for comparison purposes. So we have a 12,500. Very small price drop. 500 peso price drop. So while everybody has been doom and gloom about Intel CPUs, we haven't seen that translate into massive price drops at the local level. Intel might be interested to get more of your money but they certainly aren't discounting their CPUs to do it. Unlike, for example, AMD who's riding high in the CPU department but they're really struggling to move their stock of the 7,000 series. Again, victim of their own success, the 5,000 series was just so darn good. Personally, I'm still on AMD's 3,000 series with a 3,800X. So I haven't even experienced the 5,000 series tapos may 7,000 na. But really, for AMD CPUs 3,000, 5,000 still very good value for money. Now let's take a deep dive into the granular prices. So pinakalitas March 20, may price increase from wedge for the 1650. But as far as that, not much else actually. Wala masyadong movement. So Roy may price drop dati 960 sya 9350 na sya ngayon which is a week-on-week price drop for the 1650 from Roy. If these names are unfamiliar, tinago ko yung mga 2-9 napangalan ng mga shops because only one shop gets free publicity at hardware sugar channel. So these are four real world yung pinakamalaking pinakasikat na PC shops dito sa Pilipinas. Pero tinago ko yung mga pangalan nila. So these are all under aliases. Pero yung mahalaga, week from week, parehoy yung alias nila. So wedge from this week is the same wedge as noong March 13 and the same wedge that we looked at at the very start no October palang. So that consistent yung data, we can actually plot performance of the prices. Not much changed really. Kind of a dead area right now for retail. So wala masyadong holidays wala masyadong promos. Price increase from 2060 from Wash dati 1900. Now the cheapest they have is around 21,000. So that's a bit of a significant increase. And the 4090 also a price increase from 110 to 112 or so. This is around 111 last week and then 120 this week. Wedge has seen price drops both for the 6500 XT and the 7900 XTX. This is the cheapest actually that I've seen the XTX at 67,380. So just to recap, blue means that may price drop from last week and red means may price increase from last week. And we also have the average prices here per week in green on the right hand side. This is the data that we copy and paste into the weekly summary in the previous tab that we saw. And also good to note that lahat ng 3060s natin ito yung 12GB version because there is a newer version. Newer but it actually has lesser VRAM. So yung standard or yung previous version yung 3060 12GB, the newer version only has 8GB. Para consistent, we get the cheapest price for the 12GB version because we do think that value for money, it's better if you can get the 12GB. Yes, there is a little price difference mas mahal ng konte yung 12GB but price to performance sulit na yung a little bit more just to get 4GB of extra VRAM. And it's kind of annoying when NVIDIA does this because at 3060 sila pareho but you really need to look at the fine print and again if you're just starting out with PCs is even mo lang ah 3060 naman to, ito rin 3060 makapareo sila pero mas mura to most nightly kung mas mura yung yung 8GB version so all the prices we track here from the start up to now are the 12GB versions of the 3060 and wash even with its price increase still has the cheapest 3060 at 29,995 3060 is a good mid range card now, mid range to high end and a lot of our customer base who are gamers do trend towards the 3060 For CPUs, very little differences at all we just have one entry from ROY Datte, and it's a very small price increase lang. Last week 10,099 yung R5 5600X ngayon 10,178 so it's like 79 pesos more Sobrang lit lang ng price difference everything else has remained the same from last week CPUs generally though are more price table compared to GPUs that can really fluctuate a lot out of the GPU apocalypse at was the pandemic so bottom line, should you buy a GPU now there hasn't been a lot of movement so if you're waiting for a big price drop you can continue waiting but if you're tired of waiting kung inisip mo na grave sobrang tagal naman nakiipon ako I would probably pull the trigger just because there isn't anything on the horizon that would suggest that a sale is coming up soon so kung and you're ready to go in my mind, there's no reason to wait any longer it's unlikely that you'll be seeing major sales or major price drops anytime soon but as always, nasasayon na yun if you think that we've reached that magic intersection of price for performance for you, kasi iba-iba naman mga budget natin if you are still looking up to save you can always check itong price watch natin we only do this kind of episode once a month but this google sheet is online and we update it once a week so you can track it in real time if now is the time to pull that trigger on a GPU or on a CPU thanks for watching and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning nasa makati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up to date yung inventory dun kung instock yung item sa amin available yun sa site we also ship nationwide thanks for watching and maybe one of these days, magkita tayo sa shop