PSA: How to buy heavily discounted CPU's from Micro Center - 9800X3D ($230) 7800X3D ($150)

I've posted this hack several times around the forums (sorry for being a broken record) but I don't ever see anyone else mention it. Because of the inflated DDR5 prices, the discounts being applied to the CPU's in Micro Center's POS system are currently amazing. This doesn't seem to work with the 9850X3D and 9950X3D bundles for some reason, but there are some absolutely bonkers CPU prices on the 9800X3D, 7800X3D, and 7500X3D right now. If you add the individual items from a bundle into the online shopping cart instead of the bundle itself It will show you the discount that is applied to those individual items. If you click on the bundle you can scroll down a bit and there are direct links to the individual parts. Reserve your order with the discounted individual parts and you can optionally return or exchange the motherboard and/or RAM after the purchase. You could not do this if you were to reserve the parts as a bundle because of their return policy. Even if you want to keep... Read more