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People lined up to buy AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs

That 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 the next day that several of its stores had PC DIYers lined up to buy AMD’s muchhyped CPU

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