I paid a bit more than that for my current 5950X a couple years ago now. Top of the stack CPUs have always had a pretty big price jump. Though, I would class the 7950X(3D) as similar to HEDT even if it's the top of the consumer models... if you don't need a ton of i/o, there's a lot of value there depending on what you're doing.
GPU pricing seems a bit more insane, given a lot of the demand has actually died down at this point, and the mfgs are definitely restricting production to keep prices (and margins) up. It's kind of sad there really isn't anything comparatively good on the lower pricing end ($100-300) where historically you'd see around 60-70% the performance well under half the price.
GPU pricing seems a bit more insane, given a lot of the demand has actually died down at this point, and the mfgs are definitely restricting production to keep prices (and margins) up. It's kind of sad there really isn't anything comparatively good on the lower pricing end ($100-300) where historically you'd see around 60-70% the performance well under half the price.