In fact, some observers reckon the chip, which Dave describes as the "new king of gaming CPUs", sold out in minutes. Meanwhile, other sources reckon Intel's new Arrow Lake CPUs have been catastrophically slow sellers, with German etailer Mindfactory claimed to have not shifted a single chip in the first week of sales.

When the first Ryzen 9000X chips launched, received tepid reviews, and then proceeded to stick around on retailer shelves even with immediate discounts, a lot of us thought buyers might be holding off for the X3D versions to come out. It looks like we were ...