If these are the official MSRP they've become insane.
Confirmed I'll order overseas as a matter of principle.

Will be almost the same price as est. Retail price...

As mentioned by nrw, it's not about the price but principle...

Any giga users on F31J?

That seems to be getting positive feedback in the small community I subscribe to. Was wondering if it's still broken for anyone else.

I think 5950X event difficult to get.

Shared here from another forum. This guy having random boots with a 5950x on a Msi x570 Unify.
Presumably he RMAed the cpu and his response below:

I'm talked to guy from warranty department. He said if what I'm describing will be confirmed during their testing, CPU will be replaced. Also he was not surprised at all and said it's very high percent of defective Ryzen CPUs, up to 10%. Tommorow I'm giving them my CPU for testing.

Crosshair 8 hero here though... but managed to pick this up last year 12.12 sale at RM1.3k. So it was a no brainer at that time.

So this happen to both intel and amd cpu?
why they say not all? is it related to some model only?

One Reddit user @Neoncarbon noticed that his AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU idle temps dropped from 50C to 37C when he closed the Epic Games Store’s app/client. The EGL application appears to be using some CPU resources even when it is running in the background. At least that’s what is being reported right now.

Though, it should be noted that not all AMD Ryzen owners have been experiencing this issue, so it may not be widespread as reported on Reddit. But some INTEL CPU owners have also observed a similar behavior with the EGL app.

issue is only on ryzen 5000 series documented by a few testers. while I’m a 3000 series here, no issues on my end. Intel is problem free as well, it’s just the article quoting without source.

perhaps it’s the same like zen2 microcode issues that is causing infinite loops last time.

Czone on FB. Other items on sale have zero comments but that particular post have more than 60 comments last I have seen. So wouldn't bother.

There are some local sellers started to list 5900x/5950x on Lazada/Shopee but as usual the price is 50% of MSRP.

Good sign.... Don't buy people... Let the price fall!

covid has a lot to do with it. even qualcom having issues all cos of tsmc.

Be warned, liquid cooling is heavily recommended. Listen to uncle who has both 5950x and 3950x.
Uncle here settled with air cooling because uncle ran out of budget. 

Listed few posts above.