We have a Micro Center relatively close to my home and I'll never forget when I first walked in there. I'd never even heard of them before but I remember just standing still, frozen, looking at rows and rows of computer stuff and was like "I could live here."
And then, two days later, you'd realize how awful it'd be to live in a place where everything attracts dust like moths to a flame and would need to be cleaned every five seconds 😆
In the age of Amazon delivery, being able to go somewhere to get you hands on something and see if you REALLY like it (ESPECIALLY when youre building a computer that will last 5 years'ish), this is just an indispensable opportunity.
@@losttale1 saves time, helps ease with returns, which DOA products are not rare in PC building. "hey my mobo is doa. hey sure let us just replace it no questions asked" or making sure your monitor doesn't have dead pixels? or the ability to return a GPU such as gigabyte which they are known to be horrible with returns. or lets say any case which pictures don't show off the kinks/imperfections. small stuff like 8pin cable clips turning out to be clear and not solid white. it's the small stuff that you can make sure are correct which shopping in person enables you to do. other than that, it's also pretty fun to look around the store and see new things.
I drove 2.5 hours to one to build my last PC 2 years ago. Liked it so much I brought a couple of friends a couple of months later to build theirs (just before the pandemic). Definitely worth the drive
Most of their stores aren't stocked like that. The MN store has a turd selection of AMD cards priced well above MSRP and the craptacular 1050ti. It's a really cool store, don't get me wrong, but this video does not accurately represent the experience you'll have in all all their locations.
@@Casmige Fry's fatal mistakes were a couple of fold. For starters, one of the founding Fry brothers had a gambling addiction. Not only that, but they were in debt with just about every vendor they were buying from. So, they desperately switched to a consignment model before they shut down. They were getting zero products in for a full year before they went out of business. They sold one store (Duluth) to make up the cost and stopped renting another store (Palo Alto) because the rent was too high. They couldn't hide what was clearly there, the store needed to pay back their vendors before they could get any product in. Without their vendors, Fry's was just selling expired gummy worms, water and flash lights. It was pitiful. Source: Was a former Fry's employee from 2018 to late 2019.
I've only been to Micro Center once when I was in Chicago on holiday, it made me super jealous because there's pretty much nothing like that at all near me in Australia.
Nothing like that near 90% of us in the US either. Lived in South Florida for first 36 years of my life and that was a 12+ hour drive from one. Now I'm in Alabama and it's still a 4 hour drive so I've never been. If they had cards at retail price I'd probably make the trip. For now my i9-10850k is gpu-less and looks like it'll be that way for awhile.
I was shopping here for work this day and didn't know what was going on, i've been there for the construction but didn't expect the day it reopened would be that day. It was nice to see it all nice and new with so many products. then i turn over after waiting in line and see you building this. I was shocked lol, watched your videos many times to learn and they worked. Thanks for the stuff you teach.
It’s so refreshing to see a tech store use their tech to make an unmatched shopping experience, everything I imagined when I was little that we could do with tech in stores is just…a reality here. I wish I wasn’t so far from a MicroCenter
As someone who has one MicroCenter within 20 minutes of where I live and another about 45 minutes in another direction, I can confirm that having all those GPUs in stock, and ESPECIALLY at or near MSRP is a huge fluke that Jay got ridiculously lucky with. These things just aren't there for most stores. I don't know if MC held stock specifically for the GRO of this location or put them in there since they knew Jay would be filming this or what, but this is not representative of most stores. By a huge longshot.
He was in the store before the re-opening according to one of his tweets. Doesn't seem like he had filmed yet, but given nobody else was visible in this video that's entirely possible. My guess is they held stock for the reopening and he filmed before any was able to be purchased.
100000% agreed. I had been to my local Microcenter here in Denver 5 times looking for a GPU. Every single time all they had were server GPU's, or $1600 6900 XT's or 3080ti's
Brings back memories of the Sears tools section back in the late '60's - early -'70's. I remember going there as a teenager and drooling at any and every tool a kid could ever want or need to work on their muscle car.
As someone who is new to the pc building world, I had no idea how lucky I was to have this exact location within an hour drive. I assumed a store this popular would be widely available.
The fact they didn't have a billion locations is likely why they survived the online shopping purge of brick and mortar stores. CompUsa, Fry's, Circuit City all gone. Microcenter persisted and even with less overall demand for brick and mortar, the demand that was left went to microcenter. Even some of the primarily online shops bit the dust like Tiger Direct. I have two Microcenters within a reasonable distance from me. One 20 mins away and one 45 mins away, lol. At one time I had Microcenter, CompUSA, Fry's and a Tiger Direct Warehouse store all within a 20min drive.
Jay: "I see every GPU SKU in stock!" Jay, five minutes before: "The store hasn't actually opened yet." Hmmm... There's just something here... I can't quite put my finger on it...
@@ricardogaona2146 come back and let us know what is real. Also I agree it is suspect because the whole video was nothing but a long ad in which I still love this kind of content as long as it's honest.
The editing is impressive, all the effort to edit in the GPUs on the empty shelves must have taking a long time. Wait... what do you mean it wasn't edited.
One of the best things about Micro Center is the guys in the build your own section. They generally know what they're talking about and know what goes with what. A completely different experience than what you used to get with Fry's.
same. especially for those MSRP graphics cards. I wish I could get a 3060 Ti. anywhere under a 1000 euros ffs. it's insane how opportunistic every single store is. it's pretty much a miracle that in MicroCenter they aren't selling them for double the MSRP.
Knew that would happen. Was there a couple weeks ago and didn't see half much of what's in this video. They probably air-freighted what they needed for the grand re-opening. But the place is always mobbed, let alone this time I'm of year. I went there in June for one thing and it turned out to be the nvidia release day for the 3000 series. Must have been over 500 people in the parking lot.
@@GMO5 I left work at about noon yesterday. They had a shipment of over 40 Asus 3090 white edition come in early Friday morning. I was able to get one. They also had a bunch of GIGABYTE 3080s left over.
I was there for the Tustin re-opening and fortunately got my hands on a 3080ti video card. It really took what was so great about Fry’s Electronics and made it even better. I’m local so I’ve been there 4 times in the last 2 weeks!
Bruh, seeing Jay have a 3080 in his cart instead of having an associate bring it to the front for him was the most unbelievable thing about this video.
@@FunKaYxxD1sCOYep. The one a few hours from me is putting them about 250% over MSRP. Even checking online micro centers everywhere are scalping. This video seems like an advertisement
In Austin Evans is the same, but they are sponsored by the store as well, were everything looks neat and easy. As it seeks the employees open those windows before shooting (speculation)
I really wish something like this was available here in the UK. As much as I like being able to order next day i'd love to go into a store that's competitive on prices and actually see the productions in-person.
1 hour? aren't you sure people will not just camp in front of the store before opening and just raid 1 min after opening, leaving everything empty 15 min after opening? xD
Thank you for re inspiring my interest in technology. I was cooking before the pandemic but got layed off and didn't know what to do, I built a new pc and took up freelance work fixing and upgrading friends computers. Just recently I landed a job as an A+ technician at microcenter in denver while studying for my compTIA A+ certification. You and several other youtubers really reignited a passion I had forgotten about since high school. Just wanted to say thanks.
Awesome story! Have any 3080s or TIs in stock? I might try to make it down tomorrow at some point. Do they sell out every day or what’s the word? Thank you so much!! Might have you build me a PC!🍻🍻
Problem is that you can't buy everything online according to reviews: headphones? Once I wanted noise cancelling ones decided to buy Bose QC35. Ended with Sennheiser PX550 cause Bose caused weird feeling like pressure on ears and being underwater which was extremelly unfortable. Other time I wanted good enough headphones. Was decided to buy ATH40 something, ended with Grado cause they offered more clear sound. Similar story with keyboards or chair. But today nothing is on the display in PC shops. Well ... except a few phones maybe. And headphone shop did not survive covid.
Yeah is so sad that Germany doesn't really has such awesome shops about computers. We had a much smaller one called "Zur 48", was my favorite shop of all but sadly got closed many years ago 😭
I was in PC Heaven the day JayzTwoCents was there! Shaking Jays hand and meeting the crew was really a dream come true. I want the comment section to know that Micro Center is awesome but Jay, Phil, Nic, AJ, and the PC community are even cooler. Thanks for being so kind and approachable, guys!
I have one just 5 minutes from my house and my dad used to take me there when I was a kid many many times. I'd spend a whole hour as a kid going up and down the game aisle looking at all the covers and reading the backs of the boxes and everything. My dad would do the same thing just all over the rest of the store haha. Good times. It was the best and it's still fun to this day for me LOL
When you come like every week and you reread the back of boxes that you've read before and then just holding on to the boxes for no real reason while reading something else that caught your eye.
I grew up with a Microcenter 15 minutes from me, it wasn't until I got older that I found out just how lucky I was as a kid growing up in STEM classes to have such a store THAT close
I was there yesterday around 2 p.m. through an insider tip. I was able to pick up a 30 series for my brother. Last year I was lucky enough to pick up a 3090 🦄. I love this store it truly is heaven.
The prices are fair and even cheaper compared to most other places at least in my opinion. The website does update however it lags behind keeping up with actual inventory coming in and out because as they put them on the shelves they fly out the shelves. I literally watched inventory disappear in a matter of 10 minutes. For the lower tier cards of course, they still had quite a few 3090s and quite a bit of AMD.
I grew up 5 minutes from this microcenter so I thought it was no big deal that we had them - but apparently it's the only one in SoCal! Super excited to go in and see the new layout this weekend!
Not all microcenter's are created equal. The one about 45 minutes from me is the only one within a hundred miles and the best nvidia GPU it had a 1660 Super for just under $500
I lived near this one for 5 years and it's the reason I got into PCs. I would have never gotten into it if I never went there and looked around and what you can do with a custom PC
Never had a problem finding an associate at Micro Center, They are literally every where and I have been shopping at MC since they opened their first store in Columbus, OH. years and years ago.
Same, Cincinnati MC when it’s not a weekend, there’s always like 6-8 just standing around. On weekends it’s insane packed and that’s when it’s hard to get someone cause they’re all busy as hell.
I have fond memories of when MicroCenter and I were first getting into 3D Printing- -Small selection in the back corner by the bathrooms. -More selection taking over the entire back corner. -A little more selection moved up to one section of the printer ink and toner aisle. -More selection and two sections of the ink and toner aisle. -The trip when someone realized it was getting big enough to need organization and... ... walking down the aisle felt like walking down a rainbow. -It was obvious there were a lot of printers running when filament took over a full half of the ink and toner aisle. Then I moved and now MicroCenter is about two hours away instead of just 20 minutes :(
@@ramsjunior Everyone else that walks in there will, unless they are already out of money. I stay away from there unless I specifically need something, and even then I end up getting something else just because
@@rl318 @R L True, I went to buy some RAM for my old desktop last month. Walked out with the RAM, new motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler lmao. They got good salesmen
I was so surprised at what they did with the store man it was insane it felt like it went from a giant closet hub to tech warehouse heaven. i was almost trying to figure out if they defied physics because even if you were at the old store and you just imagined the walls being torn down you still wouldn't imagine it to be this big or anything like what we see now lol.
Well, you wouldn't want the rain to get your new motherboard wet as you walk to your car in the parking lot. Micro Center seems to have thought of everything.
This place is truly a dream. I was there two weeks ago after a 3 hour drive. They were the closest place I could find that had 120mm x 15mm fans for my radiator. Ended up walking out with two Noctua 15mm fans, an argb controller, and my new fave keyboard ASUS ROG Strix Flare (Cherry MX Red) and it was actually on sale! The customer service is top notch too.
I am absolutely jealous of that Micro Center. I was at my local place the other day and the GPU shelves were basically clear. I'd have had to get a $2000 AMD or a $2000 Nvidia if I was getting a GPU there.
Love how they overstocked this store knowing this video was being made. I can tell you NEITHER micro center in my area has nearly as much gpu stock. Not even before the shortages.
indeed, this video made me doublecheck my local (st davids) store. They still have next to nothing at least as far as gpu's, and what they have is massively overpriced (and i do mean massively-how is that even legal btw?).
@@Iamzee1_ @Sniper Tank alright, I'll head up there this weekend and see in person. But I've been there a couple times in the last few months and all they had were very low end (730s, 1030s) or amd cards for two or three times MSRP (which again, I don't get how that's legal. Isn't it illegal for a store to basically scalp products? I have a friend who's into sneakers and there are stores that got in big trouble for doing that with sneaks)
I live 5 minutes away from the one in NJ. they never have cards in and when they do they're gone that same morning in 2 seconds. every time you see a youtuber show gpu stock in a microcenter it's because they invited them right after they got a shipment and the store is closed. you will never ever walk into any microcenter during the day and find stock for current gpu's. Except maybe ridiculously overpriced 6900XT's or something like that but even then they don't last more then a day or 2.
This is literally heaven for me, I want to build my own pc so badly after my major fk up on buying an extremely expensive prebuilt, I wish they had these stores where I live :(
@@SanfordPereira Well from where i am, prebuilds have like 3 things from well knowkn brands, GPU, CPU and drives... stuff like motherboard, ram and PSU are shitty ones...
I really enjoy seeing stores like this put an effort into making the experience of shopping fun and intuitive. Hopefully someday I'll have the opportunity to build my first computer.
I minutes away from a Micro Center for the first 17 years of my life, and my cousin in a neighboring state also lived near one, so I always thought it was a normal thing to have near you. Didn't realize how lucky we were until people started sharing those memes where it showed the "Build Your Own PC" sign and didn't realize it was a real place.
i have one 2 hours away from me i have never gone yet. i still think they are a weird but yet amazing store its just sad they are like unicorns haha such a odd place to me in the end
Retail stores are so important to me and many others! I love going in person and holiday shopping or just going to check out new products. Online has it's perks but will never touch the in person experience of seeing and interacting with all the products
I've always been very surprised there isn't one in Seattle with how tech-centric WA state is. Congrats to the people who are lucky enough to have one nearby. I wonder if any of those GPUs are left at this time.
I hope that Microcenter sooner than later spreads out to have a store somewhere central in the Netherlands. Even if it's only one I would go there 100% of the time I wanted something tech.
Really don’t think they’ll expand to Europe (or even outside of the U.S. - maybe Canada if lucky as it’s a neighboring country). They only have like 20 stores in the U.S., which is not a lot. Like at all. Looks like they aren’t even expanding in the states
Glad to see Micro Center getting some recognition! A month ago I did a new PC build and bought 100 percent of the parts from the Dallas, TX Micro Center. Sure, I could have saved a little buying the parts online but preferred to buy local for both convenience (in case of return/exchange) and also to support Micro Center. The Micro Center staff were exceptionally friendly and showed a genuine interest in my project and offering advice.
Last time I went to MicroCenter in Dallas the store looked trashed, everything looked like it was thrown around which was disappointing, but at least it had the Monitor I was looking for
Well, they would have "more recognition" if they had more stores. They would completely destroy Best Buy and their slim pickings here in TN. And other than BB, there is literally nothing but a few private companies that mostly do business to business computer contracting or pre-build sales around the colleges, not PC builds for individuals. TN borders 8 states and is the major transport hub for the east and west coast, and 3 of the border states have Microcenters, but not within reasonable driving distance.
I just made the hour n a half drive today to this Micro Center after seeing this video yesterday. I arrived and waited in line for them to open and there were no 3000 series GPUs. My heart is broken...
I honestly needed this video. It helped me out a lot because I’m driving 6 hours to the micro center in Dallas, Texas next weekend. This video gives me so much more excitement for my build.
There's no way they have gpus in stock, I go to the Tustin store almost every other week and the gpu shelves are always completely empty except for 6900xts and 6700xts both at very inflated prices
Just visited this MicroCenter after seeing your video Jayz. One word. "Wow". As you said, the store was packed with inventory at great prices. My son and I drove a long way to get there, but it was worth it. Thanks for making us aware of PC Heaven. My son loves that PC Build. That will be a PC Heaven for some lucky winner. Keep doing what do.
So Jay I gotta say, I went to my very first Micro Center because of this video and it just happens to be the same one in Tustin, unfortunately it wasn't PC Heaven for me because I went on Black Friday. It was hell, but silver lining is I won the raffle to buy a GPU and I got myself a 3060 ti. So thanks for making this video, I wish I got time to enjoy the store more but with the crowds it was impossible lol I've got my PSU and GPU now so I'm well on my way to building my first PC with the parts that I pick myself.
@@Jay-wm5cf I was at mine all night from Thursday night until Friday morning, it wasn't until early in the morning that the staff announced that it would be a raffle 300 30 series GPUs. That's why suddenly there were thousands of people once the news spread. I just lucked out.
Best time to go to Microcenter is on a non-holiday weekday morning (preferably Tuesday/Wednesday). Which unfortunately is hard for me because I'd have to take paid time off from my job and leave my house at like 4am to get to the nearest store when it opens. 😄
I'd love to have a Microcenter, or even a decent computer parts store in the Seattle area. That there is so much of that industry in this area, and we have zero stores is ridiculous.
I have one north of me in Dallas and one south of me near Houston both about 1n half from me. Seem to me you should buy some real-estate and open a computer store like micro center but small scale
I just went to the Micro Center in Denver for the 1st time yesterday. It was incredible. It is about an hour from me, but they do price matching and I would rather buy local than Amazon. If they have it, I will get it from them. I spent a couple of hours there and I usually hate shopping in stores.
A really great point on supporting local tech over Amazon, when a local option exists. I'm close to the Tustin store and love going there to browse, though I haven't seen the remodel yet. Sooon! 🍺😁
I was shocked when I saw you there! I finished watching one of your videos and headed to Micro Center and there you were! So awesome to see you in person *although I was to afraid to speak to you* Thank you for the amazing content!
Micro Center was one of the first things I became aware of when I moved to Kansas City back in 2000. It already had legendary status, but I had never heard of it. Twenty years later, it's my favorite store to visit, and only fifteen minutes away. :D
I've been wishing I had a Microcenter near me for like 10 years (Google said the closet one is 3.5 hours away in NY). Turns out there is one about 45 minutes away, just went for the first time (twice in 2 days) and so far it's been awesome.
Thanks to the Denver store having RX6600s in stock last month I was finally able to get out of GPU hell. Granted it was a 5 hour drive, but it was well worth it. An RX6600 was a huge step above what I was using, a 7850. I would recommend Micro Center to anyone within decent drive from one. It truly is PC heaven.
I snagged my 6700xt on a random Saturday trip up from the Springs a month or so ago. Wasn't even planning on a GPU that day, went in for a new board/cpu.
I was in the exact store Jay filmed in about 9 hours ago.....it was garbage, couldn't find anything with aisles mislabeled....layout sucks, employees were rude. Doesn't make me want to go back.
went to microcenter randomly that morning not knowing it was a grand re-opening and happen to see ya at the end of your recording LOL. Couldn't believe how much stuff they had in stock.
I keep hearing about Micro Center, but never been to one. I looked at their locations, and they have one in Cincinnati, about two hours away from me. I have an old pre-built with a nice case I want to rebuild,so I think I will be making a trip up there soon.
I live near the Micro Center outside of Philadelphia, they are currently doing a pretty significant expansion as well. Maybe not quite to this scale but I can't wait to see the end result still!
That's awesome, last time I was there they were in the middle of tearing up everything, it was just a couple months ago, I had no idea they were taking the rebuild this far, hopefully their custom water cooling section is bigger, it was very weak before, I could spend all day browsing around that place
it's crazy that this is being appreciated when back in the day you had to go to the store to get anything 😂 but now a day most store's don't have anything you need, and the employee's recommend you to order it online 😂
I've been to both microcenters in Maryland in the last couple weeks and they don't have GPU stock or prices anywhere near that good. Don't expect Jayz experience to be replicated elsewhere.
That's because they literally diverted the stock from other stores to that one so it would be fully stocked for their GRAND REOPENING! That and that one store has more stock than any of the others.
Just bullshit AMD cards if they do mostly. But i got lucky 2 diff occsions in Parkville got a 3070 once and 3090 another time. And I drove 2 hours to do it. But thats 2 outta 9 times and I got there around 5am. Love the new GPU policly tho or else I prob woulda got nothin
circa 1992...went into the Micro Center in Columbus, Ohio. I rode up the escalator and it was like going into heaven as I saw a freshly built gaming rig demoing Rebel Assault! I've loved Micro Center ever since! Loved the mom and pop shops too, but they have all basically dried up.
I agree. I've never been to one. There's only 1 in California and its in SoCal. For those of us in NorCal, it would be at least a 6-7 hour drive. We had 2 Fry's Electronics within a 45 mile radius of my town before they went out of business. Now, we only have some BestBuys that have a meager selection of computer hardware, even before the pandemic.
I chuckled seeing Phil in the reflection of a shelf window having to hold the camera up to Jay height to film him. Too bad the giant video card doesn't come in white to match.
Every retailer should build an app like that where you can request help and it will tell them where you are. A few months back I went to Best Buy and I wanted a lens that was in a locked case and waited for 20 minutes and asked 3 different associates if they could send help to the camera section and help never came so I went to found a manager and told him how pissed I was. Ended up buying the lens from a different retailer all together.
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Imagine having a Micro Center everywhere in the world.
would never happen in australia
Imagine having money to spend at microcenter
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Imagine having a store in Ireland. Yes I mean any tech store. Anything. 🇮🇪😭
@@IREWolfman bruh it would be taxed to fuck, thats why.
Micro Center, please come to Florida.
~Florida-Man
For real! Orlando would be a prime spot and would do a TON of business
theres a few in Georgia one is 5hrs from me an I live in South Carolina
Wish we had some here in the UK, Micro Center's look incredible
Still flat
if a micro center ever comes to florida i will actually rebuild my pc just to experience the store
Jay - "Who did they rob"
Well, there was that truck of GPU's that got stolen recently.
MAKE SENSE
LOL!!!
There should be a F&F Meme for this! XDXD
They robbed the Parkville, MD store.... Inventory here was horrible the last time I was in there (a week or so ago)! LOL!
I thought the same thing
We have a Micro Center relatively close to my home and I'll never forget when I first walked in there. I'd never even heard of them before but I remember just standing still, frozen, looking at rows and rows of computer stuff and was like "I could live here."
Dear Micro Center - why oh why is there not a store in Silicon Valley (or anywhere in the Bay Area) for god's sake??!!
@@993mike Probably because they actually sell things at reasonable prices and the rent would be astronomical. Maybe not but just a guess.
And then, two days later, you'd realize how awful it'd be to live in a place where everything attracts dust like moths to a flame and would need to be cleaned every five seconds 😆
In the age of Amazon delivery, being able to go somewhere to get you hands on something and see if you REALLY like it (ESPECIALLY when youre building a computer that will last 5 years'ish), this is just an indispensable opportunity.
If you live near one.
lol what do you need to touch besides a keyboard or mouse.
@@losttale1 saves time, helps ease with returns, which DOA products are not rare in PC building. "hey my mobo is doa. hey sure let us just replace it no questions asked" or making sure your monitor doesn't have dead pixels? or the ability to return a GPU such as gigabyte which they are known to be horrible with returns. or lets say any case which pictures don't show off the kinks/imperfections. small stuff like 8pin cable clips turning out to be clear and not solid white. it's the small stuff that you can make sure are correct which shopping in person enables you to do. other than that, it's also pretty fun to look around the store and see new things.
I drove 2.5 hours to one to build my last PC 2 years ago. Liked it so much I brought a couple of friends a couple of months later to build theirs (just before the pandemic).
Definitely worth the drive
@@losttale1 I touch my GPU all the time
This is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. Just wish there could be even more of their stores.
Oh, you mean in line with that fatal mistake Fry’s Electronic’s made?....
Most of their stores aren't stocked like that. The MN store has a turd selection of AMD cards priced well above MSRP and the craptacular 1050ti. It's a really cool store, don't get me wrong, but this video does not accurately represent the experience you'll have in all all their locations.
@@Casmige what happened with Fry’s? Never been to one
Huge fan Heir! Love your Rome 2 and Attila playthroughs!
@@Casmige Fry's fatal mistakes were a couple of fold.
For starters, one of the founding Fry brothers had a gambling addiction.
Not only that, but they were in debt with just about every vendor they were buying from. So, they desperately switched to a consignment model before they shut down.
They were getting zero products in for a full year before they went out of business.
They sold one store (Duluth) to make up the cost and stopped renting another store (Palo Alto) because the rent was too high.
They couldn't hide what was clearly there, the store needed to pay back their vendors before they could get any product in. Without their vendors, Fry's was just selling expired gummy worms, water and flash lights. It was pitiful.
Source: Was a former Fry's employee from 2018 to late 2019.
I've only been to Micro Center once when I was in Chicago on holiday, it made me super jealous because there's pretty much nothing like that at all near me in Australia.
Nothing like that near 90% of us in the US either. Lived in South Florida for first 36 years of my life and that was a 12+ hour drive from one. Now I'm in Alabama and it's still a 4 hour drive so I've never been. If they had cards at retail price I'd probably make the trip. For now my i9-10850k is gpu-less and looks like it'll be that way for awhile.
I know right, us Aussies have it rough.
@@somethingneeddoing021 only major US cities get these. most of us are in your boat.
Just as bad in New Zealand! May have to plan a trip to the US! Post COVID! Just to smell the store 👍
yeah, its all just pick up counters here
I was shopping here for work this day and didn't know what was going on, i've been there for the construction but didn't expect the day it reopened would be that day. It was nice to see it all nice and new with so many products. then i turn over after waiting in line and see you building this. I was shocked lol, watched your videos many times to learn and they worked. Thanks for the stuff you teach.
It’s so refreshing to see a tech store use their tech to make an unmatched shopping experience, everything I imagined when I was little that we could do with tech in stores is just…a reality here. I wish I wasn’t so far from a MicroCenter
It can help that you aren't close. I have one close to me and I'm there more than I care to admit.
I know. The nearest one being twelve hours away makes it kind of hard to go there. Oh well.
Atleast you have a micro centre in your country
Yeah same
@@raygt2790 BRUH I feel that. There's none in canada. I've went to the Boston one when I went to see my girlfriend and it was so nice.
As someone who has one MicroCenter within 20 minutes of where I live and another about 45 minutes in another direction, I can confirm that having all those GPUs in stock, and ESPECIALLY at or near MSRP is a huge fluke that Jay got ridiculously lucky with. These things just aren't there for most stores. I don't know if MC held stock specifically for the GRO of this location or put them in there since they knew Jay would be filming this or what, but this is not representative of most stores. By a huge longshot.
As someone who frequents the Tustin store, those shelves are literally always empty
He was in the store before the re-opening according to one of his tweets. Doesn't seem like he had filmed yet, but given nobody else was visible in this video that's entirely possible. My guess is they held stock for the reopening and he filmed before any was able to be purchased.
usually it is double where I live. But the price is still better than online
You’re from the Chicago suburbs aren’t you
100000% agreed. I had been to my local Microcenter here in Denver 5 times looking for a GPU. Every single time all they had were server GPU's, or $1600 6900 XT's or 3080ti's
Brings back memories of the Sears tools section back in the late '60's - early -'70's. I remember going there as a teenager and drooling at any and every tool a kid could ever want or need to work on their muscle car.
As someone who is new to the pc building world, I had no idea how lucky I was to have this exact location within an hour drive. I assumed a store this popular would be widely available.
The fact they didn't have a billion locations is likely why they survived the online shopping purge of brick and mortar stores. CompUsa, Fry's, Circuit City all gone. Microcenter persisted and even with less overall demand for brick and mortar, the demand that was left went to microcenter. Even some of the primarily online shops bit the dust like Tiger Direct.
I have two Microcenters within a reasonable distance from me. One 20 mins away and one 45 mins away, lol. At one time I had Microcenter, CompUSA, Fry's and a Tiger Direct Warehouse store all within a 20min drive.
Jay: "I see every GPU SKU in stock!"
Jay, five minutes before: "The store hasn't actually opened yet."
Hmmm... There's just something here... I can't quite put my finger on it...
What's wrong? People now know that if they really want one, they have a good shot at getting one if they come early in the morning.
@@TheLegendaryBM maybe this store is why I can’t guy a gpu anywhere? 😒
I'm going to this store on Wednesday and will check for myself because I find it hard to believe too 😅
It can't be. I suspect some empty boxes in those display cases. That's why the security is so tight.
@@ricardogaona2146 come back and let us know what is real. Also I agree it is suspect because the whole video was nothing but a long ad in which I still love this kind of content as long as it's honest.
Jay: "I didn't Linus that"
Me: "It's ok Linus, I know how it feels"
The razer laptop scene right? 😆
That cracked me right up.
The editing is impressive, all the effort to edit in the GPUs on the empty shelves must have taking a long time. Wait... what do you mean it wasn't edited.
Yeah lol I just look at the micro cent by me they are pretty much out of every gpu. They must have set this up just for jays.
Probably just before opening to the public, or opening day, it'll be all gone soon.
@@scarletspidernz for sure
The Chicago Micro Center has a bunch of stock too.
One of the best things about Micro Center is the guys in the build your own section. They generally know what they're talking about and know what goes with what. A completely different experience than what you used to get with Fry's.
As a person living outside of the US, I'd love to visit this Micro Center one day.
same. especially for those MSRP graphics cards. I wish I could get a 3060 Ti. anywhere under a 1000 euros ffs. it's insane how opportunistic every single store is. it's pretty much a miracle that in MicroCenter they aren't selling them for double the MSRP.
Same
They should 3D scan the store and make it available to explore in VR.
introvert pc build speed run
@@overdosedparade523 for People who cant visit the store, like me in Europe or other continents
Or just go in person :3
@@hayabusalegend5236 I am European aswell?
*Store opens*
*heads over to Tustin*
*checks for GPUs*
"Aaaaand they're gone."
Yep this!!!
Knew that would happen. Was there a couple weeks ago and didn't see half much of what's in this video. They probably air-freighted what they needed for the grand re-opening. But the place is always mobbed, let alone this time I'm of year. I went there in June for one thing and it turned out to be the nvidia release day for the 3000 series. Must have been over 500 people in the parking lot.
Including all of the AMD cards?
@@GMO5 I left work at about noon yesterday. They had a shipment of over 40 Asus 3090 white edition come in early Friday morning. I was able to get one. They also had a bunch of GIGABYTE 3080s left over.
@@widmarkpolynice565 Congrats man.
I was there for the Tustin re-opening and fortunately got my hands on a 3080ti video card. It really took what was so great about Fry’s Electronics and made it even better. I’m local so I’ve been there 4 times in the last 2 weeks!
Bruh, seeing Jay have a 3080 in his cart instead of having an associate bring it to the front for him was the most unbelievable thing about this video.
I wish soooooo badly that we had a micro center within a reasonable distance of southern oregon! This store looks like a nerds wet dream! Lol
@@mhymullaney they have been putting their gpus at scalper prices.
@@FunKaYxxD1sCOYep. The one a few hours from me is putting them about 250% over MSRP. Even checking online micro centers everywhere are scalping. This video seems like an advertisement
@@VtAneila thats because it is. He states that in print at the start of the video, and vocally at the end.
In Austin Evans is the same, but they are sponsored by the store as well, were everything looks neat and easy. As it seeks the employees open those windows before shooting (speculation)
I really wish something like this was available here in the UK. As much as I like being able to order next day i'd love to go into a store that's competitive on prices and actually see the productions in-person.
If you're in the North of England, there's Scan in Bolton. Not as comprehensive as this, but it might suffice.
@@Jackas112 that's my go to website haha
I'm in the lower half of East Anglia so a little bit out of the way
@@Jackas112 Luckily for me scan is only 40mins away :D
@@davetay44 15 minutes for me 😁
Overclockers are ok but their customer service is awful.
I could only imagine the GPU shelves instantly being raided after an hour of the store opening
1 hour? aren't you sure people will not just camp in front of the store before opening and just raid 1 min after opening, leaving everything empty 15 min after opening? xD
You'd be surprised, the cards are staying on the shelves for a day or two at MC and they restock multiple times a week.
I went there yesterday and there wasn’t anything past 1650 super lol
Yup, they even delisted pretty much all the GPU's from their site already so you can't even see if they're out of stock
@@cosbronaut4405 Sundays are the worst days. Tues-Thurs are the best. I got a 3080Ti on a Thursday afternoon about 1p
I live in Hemet, CA. I drove to this store and roamed the isles, awesome place! Can't wait to see how it looks since the remodel. Nice Jay!
Thank you for re inspiring my interest in technology. I was cooking before the pandemic but got layed off and didn't know what to do, I built a new pc and took up freelance work fixing and upgrading friends computers. Just recently I landed a job as an A+ technician at microcenter in denver while studying for my compTIA A+ certification. You and several other youtubers really reignited a passion I had forgotten about since high school. Just wanted to say thanks.
Awesome story! Have any 3080s or TIs in stock? I might try to make it down tomorrow at some point. Do they sell out every day or what’s the word? Thank you so much!! Might have you build me a PC!🍻🍻
@@damonm3 they had a decent amount of 3080tis and 3070tis on the shelf but i didnt see any 3080s when i looked 2 days ago. plenty of amd though.
@@doubleblack795 awesome, thanks for letting me know man! I’d do a 3080 TI for retail. Anyway you could hold one for me for tomorrow?
We cant hold gpus right now but ill try to respond to this in a couple hours and let you know if theres still some on the shelf.
If they could expand into Canada that'd be great!
and even more in the US
Right Canada’s computers sucks
Memory Express is probably the closest Canadian equivalent.
They should expand into Europe aswell there is massive demand for computers here
I feel that UK don myself
I buy everything online but this would bring me back to shopping in a store. Phenomenal. Ive never seen such a nuanced "do it all-"store in germany.
Problem is that you can't buy everything online according to reviews: headphones? Once I wanted noise cancelling ones decided to buy Bose QC35. Ended with Sennheiser PX550 cause Bose caused weird feeling like pressure on ears and being underwater which was extremelly unfortable. Other time I wanted good enough headphones. Was decided to buy ATH40 something, ended with Grado cause they offered more clear sound. Similar story with keyboards or chair. But today nothing is on the display in PC shops. Well ... except a few phones maybe. And headphone shop did not survive covid.
@@pavelperina7629 F for the headphone shop 😔
Yeah is so sad that Germany doesn't really has such awesome shops about computers. We had a much smaller one called "Zur 48", was my favorite shop of all but sadly got closed many years ago 😭
I feel this. Germany literally has none of those, unfortunately
I am so lucky to have a Microcenter only 45 mins from me, next one is hours away out of state!
Store hasn't opened yet.
Jay: They have everything in stock!
🤣
Yeah none of those graphics cards will be there when it opens lmao. This video is just an ad. duh
@@wabbasMEpern those cards will be there for a solid 3 minutes. Then everything will be back out of stock lmao
Fr grand openings always have a lot of stock
And like 400 people outside lined up lol
I was in PC Heaven the day JayzTwoCents was there! Shaking Jays hand and meeting the crew was really a dream come true. I want the comment section to know that Micro Center is awesome but Jay, Phil, Nic, AJ, and the PC community are even cooler. Thanks for being so kind and approachable, guys!
neeeeerrrrrrrrdddddd
@@Wadson Takes one to know one :D
@@gamingwithblaise3822 LMAO
@@gamingwithblaise3822 you right. lol.
@@Wadson Good, 'cause that makes three of us!
I have one just 5 minutes from my house and my dad used to take me there when I was a kid many many times. I'd spend a whole hour as a kid going up and down the game aisle looking at all the covers and reading the backs of the boxes and everything. My dad would do the same thing just all over the rest of the store haha. Good times. It was the best and it's still fun to this day for me LOL
When you come like every week and you reread the back of boxes that you've read before and then just holding on to the boxes for no real reason while reading something else that caught your eye.
I grew up with a Microcenter 15 minutes from me, it wasn't until I got older that I found out just how lucky I was as a kid growing up in STEM classes to have such a store THAT close
I was there yesterday around 2 p.m. through an insider tip. I was able to pick up a 30 series for my brother. Last year I was lucky enough to pick up a 3090 🦄. I love this store it truly is heaven.
So the website must be lying about stock?
All that really matters is price, stock is everywhere now.
The prices are fair and even cheaper compared to most other places at least in my opinion. The website does update however it lags behind keeping up with actual inventory coming in and out because as they put them on the shelves they fly out the shelves. I literally watched inventory disappear in a matter of 10 minutes. For the lower tier cards of course, they still had quite a few 3090s and quite a bit of AMD.
I grew up 5 minutes from this microcenter so I thought it was no big deal that we had them - but apparently it's the only one in SoCal! Super excited to go in and see the new layout this weekend!
Not all microcenter's are created equal. The one about 45 minutes from me is the only one within a hundred miles and the best nvidia GPU it had a 1660 Super for just under $500
we used to have a micro center here in santa clara iirc.
it's like a PC store desert here now.
I lived near this one for 5 years and it's the reason I got into PCs. I would have never gotten into it if I never went there and looked around and what you can do with a custom PC
Invite me 😩
Never had a problem finding an associate at Micro Center, They are literally every where and I have been shopping at MC since they opened their first store in Columbus, OH. years and years ago.
Same, Cincinnati MC when it’s not a weekend, there’s always like 6-8 just standing around. On weekends it’s insane packed and that’s when it’s hard to get someone cause they’re all busy as hell.
Question- Why was the exhaust fan installed facing that way? plus why didnt you set the lables upright to match. Love you!
I have fond memories of when MicroCenter and I were first getting into 3D Printing-
-Small selection in the back corner by the bathrooms.
-More selection taking over the entire back corner.
-A little more selection moved up to one section of the printer ink and toner aisle.
-More selection and two sections of the ink and toner aisle.
-The trip when someone realized it was getting big enough to need organization and... ... walking down the aisle felt like walking down a rainbow.
-It was obvious there were a lot of printers running when filament took over a full half of the ink and toner aisle.
Then I moved and now MicroCenter is about two hours away instead of just 20 minutes :(
Never was sadder story ever told.
I love how they opened up the area and made the whole shopping experience an actual experience. The build your own section use to be so cramped.
"If you don't know what a Micro Center is...", the place where you spend every last cent you have Jay you know that.
Pretty sure he didn't spend a penny :D
@@ramsjunior Everyone else that walks in there will, unless they are already out of money. I stay away from there unless I specifically need something, and even then I end up getting something else just because
Now its JayzOneCent.
@@ramsjunior Yeah. He spent two, and them some.
@@rl318 @R L True, I went to buy some RAM for my old desktop last month. Walked out with the RAM, new motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler lmao. They got good salesmen
I was so surprised at what they did with the store man it was insane it felt like it went from a giant closet hub to tech warehouse heaven. i was almost trying to figure out if they defied physics because even if you were at the old store and you just imagined the walls being torn down you still wouldn't imagine it to be this big or anything like what we see now lol.
"I'm so excited for my flight to Orange County"
"Oh are you going to Disneyland?"
"Even Better. Microcenter"
i live an hour from the Cincinnati microcenter bought my 6700xt there
They won’t have Gpu’s in stock unless you want a 6900xt
Might have to go for the gpu... My local is not anywhere near MSRP.
Knot's Berry Farm: "Am I a joke to you?
I remember when Microcenter was being neglected on my area. After they close the store and move to a better location the store is always packed.
Jay: "Everything is here"
Me: "Shit he's right, they got umbrellas too!"
ok I'm glad someone else noticed the umbrellas too xD
Well, you wouldn't want the rain to get your new motherboard wet as you walk to your car in the parking lot.
Micro Center seems to have thought of everything.
@@nothingtodo58 You know they sell 'em in a box, right?
I’ve bought the Umbrella from Micro Center, it worked great until it got windy.
@@FrietjeOorlog Time to work on that sense of humor there, Oorlog. ;-)
The gig is up Jay, we know where the GPUs came from.
Pc heaven
@@superbt2027 thats where they go back to after a few weeks too :')
Where’s the power supply?
Probably empty boxes for the video
@@fracturegames3046 Then where do the "bad" graphics cards go? 😁
This place is truly a dream. I was there two weeks ago after a 3 hour drive. They were the closest place I could find that had 120mm x 15mm fans for my radiator. Ended up walking out with two Noctua 15mm fans, an argb controller, and my new fave keyboard ASUS ROG Strix Flare (Cherry MX Red) and it was actually on sale! The customer service is top notch too.
I am absolutely jealous of that Micro Center. I was at my local place the other day and the GPU shelves were basically clear. I'd have had to get a $2000 AMD or a $2000 Nvidia if I was getting a GPU there.
Same here at Madison heights, they only have 1600 series nvidia gpus or $1000+ AMD gpus. Nothing else.
@@smugegeez1406 I was there last year, they had 6600 XT's for $400-500, picked one up when I could
@@monke2361 i went recently and its a lot better right now, any gpu you could want is in stock finally.
Love how they overstocked this store knowing this video was being made. I can tell you NEITHER micro center in my area has nearly as much gpu stock. Not even before the shortages.
indeed, this video made me doublecheck my local (st davids) store. They still have next to nothing at least as far as gpu's, and what they have is massively overpriced (and i do mean massively-how is that even legal btw?).
@@level19barb16 gotta go in person the have 3060ti 3070 3070tis 3090 just not listed I went Tuesday and bought a 3060ti for someone.
@@level19barb16 It's a shortage so the prices have increased drastically
The microcenter near me has some 1050ti's and 1030's but on the AMD side the have tons of 6700xt and 6900xt's
@@Iamzee1_ @Sniper Tank alright, I'll head up there this weekend and see in person. But I've been there a couple times in the last few months and all they had were very low end (730s, 1030s) or amd cards for two or three times MSRP (which again, I don't get how that's legal. Isn't it illegal for a store to basically scalp products? I have a friend who's into sneakers and there are stores that got in big trouble for doing that with sneaks)
They only invited him in when they got a ton of cards in. Microcenter is never like this since the pandemic. I have 2 near me in a 20 mile radius.
You in the Chicago area too? The ones here looks seedy AF.
@@brandenbrooks8560 I was impressed the first time I went to the Chicago one but it doesn't look anywhere near as big as this one.
same thing that came to my mind
I live 5 minutes away from the one in NJ. they never have cards in and when they do they're gone that same morning in 2 seconds. every time you see a youtuber show gpu stock in a microcenter it's because they invited them right after they got a shipment and the store is closed. you will never ever walk into any microcenter during the day and find stock for current gpu's. Except maybe ridiculously overpriced 6900XT's or something like that but even then they don't last more then a day or 2.
@@brandenbrooks8560 Atlanta area
This is literally heaven for me, I want to build my own pc so badly after my major fk up on buying an extremely expensive prebuilt, I wish they had these stores where I live :(
What's the story here man? What exactly happened with the pre-built?
What’s wrong with it? Explain
@@SanfordPereira Well from where i am, prebuilds have like 3 things from well knowkn brands, GPU, CPU and drives... stuff like motherboard, ram and PSU are shitty ones...
I could only dream for a store like this around the Netherlands! Mind blowing!
Pff, was thinking the same thing
@@atBattle We need stores like microcenters in Eastern Europe as well.
We had alternate but then they went online only :(
@@appore now they only have adjust their GPU prices down to reasonable levels.
Or in the UK...
I really enjoy seeing stores like this put an effort into making the experience of shopping fun and intuitive. Hopefully someday I'll have the opportunity to build my first computer.
Don't reply, that a bot
I love the Chicago store. I waited in line last year on Christmas Eve in -17 degree weather for 5 hours for a 3080. Totally worth it.
At msrp?
At msrp?
Guys microcenter isn’t a scalping store what do you think
"gamers never dies" 👌
Man, I just went yesterday to get a PSU and case fan. Nice store!
Being in Kansas I'm so glad we have a Microcenter here! It definitely needs a redo but I'll take it still
I minutes away from a Micro Center for the first 17 years of my life, and my cousin in a neighboring state also lived near one, so I always thought it was a normal thing to have near you. Didn't realize how lucky we were until people started sharing those memes where it showed the "Build Your Own PC" sign and didn't realize it was a real place.
Ppp
They used to have one in Santa Clara, California....did not now how lucky I was till it was gone.
I wish there was a micro center in Washington. All we had was Fry's and that went bust.
This store is amazing! I wish we had these in Europe.
i have one 2 hours away from me i have never gone yet. i still think they are a weird but yet amazing store its just sad they are like unicorns haha such a odd place to me in the end
coming from the uk, this brings a tear to my eye, i would spend a week in there, like i did with hifi shops, comet, etc back in the 90s day
12:10 Remember consumers, this was shot before the store opened up.
Of course the salesmen gonna sell you like it is always in stock.
Retail stores are so important to me and many others! I love going in person and holiday shopping or just going to check out new products. Online has it's perks but will never touch the in person experience of seeing and interacting with all the products
I've always been very surprised there isn't one in Seattle with how tech-centric WA state is. Congrats to the people who are lucky enough to have one nearby. I wonder if any of those GPUs are left at this time.
May be due to shipping and warehouse issues. I imagine there will be one pretty soon. Shit ton of tech related jobs out there.
I hope that Microcenter sooner than later spreads out to have a store somewhere central in the Netherlands. Even if it's only one I would go there 100% of the time I wanted something tech.
Really don’t think they’ll expand to Europe (or even outside of the U.S. - maybe Canada if lucky as it’s a neighboring country). They only have like 20 stores in the U.S., which is not a lot. Like at all. Looks like they aren’t even expanding in the states
This makes both Illinois stores look even more dated than before, and that's impressive because they probably haven't changed much since the late 90s.
Pffft. We've got one here in Michigan. And it's CRAMPED.
Yea the one in Westmont is tiny compared to this I was a little underwhelmed when I visited
**cries in Wisconsin** :p
@@armas_ectos sounds just like the Chicago and Westmont stores, although Westmont is more cramped.
The one in St. Louis is almost comparable to this one. The one in Rockville Maryland is tiny though.
Glad to see Micro Center getting some recognition! A month ago I did a new PC build and bought 100 percent of the parts from the Dallas, TX Micro Center. Sure, I could have saved a little buying the parts online but preferred to buy local for both convenience (in case of return/exchange) and also to support Micro Center. The Micro Center staff were exceptionally friendly and showed a genuine interest in my project and offering advice.
I had one built there back in September. The sales agent and I joked about the sign they had on the GPU case. Great service and fast turnaround.
Last time I went to MicroCenter in Dallas the store looked trashed, everything looked like it was thrown around which was disappointing, but at least it had the Monitor I was looking for
Well, they would have "more recognition" if they had more stores. They would completely destroy Best Buy and their slim pickings here in TN. And other than BB, there is literally nothing but a few private companies that mostly do business to business computer contracting or pre-build sales around the colleges, not PC builds for individuals. TN borders 8 states and is the major transport hub for the east and west coast, and 3 of the border states have Microcenters, but not within reasonable driving distance.
"Get on a plane and fly" its sad when that would be a cheaper option for a GPU than buying it literally anywhere else
What about the plain ticket, luggage gas money, car that stuff.
And you get there and no GPU's :|
Wow, This is the most detailed video on PC build, Love it and would love to have a Microcenter in Nairobi.Cheers.
I just made the hour n a half drive today to this Micro Center after seeing this video yesterday. I arrived and waited in line for them to open and there were no 3000 series GPUs. My heart is broken...
LOL
i legit, literally dropped two tears when he said "they are or really close to msrp" (about the gpus) and then showed the price. My face :')))
Ikr same here. 😍
I picked up a evga 3080ti ftw for msrp.
@@fmaxturbosi Sure you did
Too bad I'm not even close to get one LOL
@@TheBorgey wish i could post pics here. Why would people lie about getting a gpu?
This reminds me of the first time I walked into Fry's. And this just takes that and multiplies it by ten lol
Fry's had a better "Radio Shack" Section in it though.
Fry's in it's heyday in the 90's was like this, especially in the Bay Area
@@acarrillo8277 my home Fry's in Campbell was amazing as a kid. Especially with the pyramid/egypt motif.
MC is what Fry’s should’ve been.
@@lokteraplays2619 it looks sad now that it's a empty store. i see it every time i go to the home depot next door.
I honestly needed this video. It helped me out a lot because I’m driving 6 hours to the micro center in Dallas, Texas next weekend. This video gives me so much more excitement for my build.
There's no way they have gpus in stock, I go to the Tustin store almost every other week and the gpu shelves are always completely empty except for 6900xts and 6700xts both at very inflated prices
That's because they probably stocked it just for this video.
@@GingerMan69420 100% that's what they did
@@GingerMan69420 Was just about to say they held back stock for Jay to do his video.
EDIT: Or all them boxes are dummy boxes.
@@GingerMan69420 Jay: "Who did they rob?" Indeed. Who?
Then before they opened they took them all off the shelf and put it into there backroom mining set ups.☺️
I shopped here exclusively for parts when I lived in the Los Angeles, it was always worth the drive. The store looks awesome and completely different.
Just visited this MicroCenter after seeing your video Jayz. One word. "Wow". As you said, the store was packed with inventory at great prices. My son and I drove a long way to get there, but it was worth it. Thanks for making us aware of PC Heaven. My son loves that PC Build. That will be a PC Heaven for some lucky winner. Keep doing what do.
So Jay I gotta say, I went to my very first Micro Center because of this video and it just happens to be the same one in Tustin, unfortunately it wasn't PC Heaven for me because I went on Black Friday. It was hell, but silver lining is I won the raffle to buy a GPU and I got myself a 3060 ti. So thanks for making this video, I wish I got time to enjoy the store more but with the crowds it was impossible lol I've got my PSU and GPU now so I'm well on my way to building my first PC with the parts that I pick myself.
yeah i went to my nearest one in dallas and got a 3070ti on black friday aswell, but i just had to walk up and ask for it.
@@Jay-wm5cf I was at mine all night from Thursday night until Friday morning, it wasn't until early in the morning that the staff announced that it would be a raffle 300 30 series GPUs. That's why suddenly there were thousands of people once the news spread. I just lucked out.
Best time to go to Microcenter is on a non-holiday weekday morning (preferably Tuesday/Wednesday). Which unfortunately is hard for me because I'd have to take paid time off from my job and leave my house at like 4am to get to the nearest store when it opens. 😄
Wow! They have GPUs at MSRP?
Scalpers: "Time to go shopping boys!"
It seems logical that they'll eventually do this with every store. Microcenter is a 45 min drive each way for me... and it's worth it.
3 and a half hour drive each way for me. Not worth it
Yep an hour for me.. let’s get more stores everywhere!
same mine is in Paterson, NJ and im in central Jersey so give or take 45-55 mins due to traffic
I'm 5 minutes away from mine LOL. I'm sorry
I'd love to have a Microcenter, or even a decent computer parts store in the Seattle area. That there is so much of that industry in this area, and we have zero stores is ridiculous.
It's insane that there are only 2 locations west of Texas, and both are over 1100 miles from Seattle.
@@jkvinsland I'm pretty sure this is the sole reason why that pathetic and sad Fry's store was around in Renton until this year.
I have one north of me in Dallas and one south of me near Houston both about 1n half from me. Seem to me you should buy some real-estate and open a computer store like micro center but small scale
I guess I am lucky my job is 1/4 mile away from the Sharonville store
I just went to the Micro Center in Denver for the 1st time yesterday. It was incredible. It is about an hour from me, but they do price matching and I would rather buy local than Amazon. If they have it, I will get it from them. I spent a couple of hours there and I usually hate shopping in stores.
A really great point on supporting local tech over Amazon, when a local option exists. I'm close to the Tustin store and love going there to browse, though I haven't seen the remodel yet. Sooon! 🍺😁
Jayz: “Get on the plane and fly “
Me : Instantly books plane tickets from India
i paid Rs.86k for a asus tuf 3070 last month, and they got 3080ti for $1100. Wish microcenter was in India as well.
Half way around the world
@@sagar246246 wish 🙂
@@sagar246246 damn
Every indian who know even a bit about pcs want micro centres in india
@@Anikodi2612 well India isnt “cheap” in any aspect of electronic components🙂
My first PC was from a local computer store called "Computer Heaven" back in 1994.
I was shocked when I saw you there! I finished watching one of your videos and headed to Micro Center and there you were! So awesome to see you in person *although I was to afraid to speak to you* Thank you for the amazing content!
Micro Center was one of the first things I became aware of when I moved to Kansas City back in 2000. It already had legendary status, but I had never heard of it. Twenty years later, it's my favorite store to visit, and only fifteen minutes away. :D
We need a MicroCentre here in the UK, even a UK warehouse shipping parts via the website would be a great thing.
11:16
Jay: "I need a new bending cord. Ours got stuck in the ceiling, don't ask."
Me: "... But now I gotta know..."
Jays explaining how big the store is while an employee is running in the background just to get across the massive store in under 5 mins lol
time stamp???
I've been wishing I had a Microcenter near me for like 10 years (Google said the closet one is 3.5 hours away in NY). Turns out there is one about 45 minutes away, just went for the first time (twice in 2 days) and so far it's been awesome.
Thanks to the Denver store having RX6600s in stock last month I was finally able to get out of GPU hell. Granted it was a 5 hour drive, but it was well worth it. An RX6600 was a huge step above what I was using, a 7850. I would recommend Micro Center to anyone within decent drive from one. It truly is PC heaven.
Bingo dude, I was able to get out of GPU hell for $329!
that's tough. Being in ohio I'm within 2.5 hours from 3 separate stores
I snagged my 6700xt on a random Saturday trip up from the Springs a month or so ago. Wasn't even planning on a GPU that day, went in for a new board/cpu.
I was in the exact store Jay filmed in about 9 hours ago.....it was garbage, couldn't find anything with aisles mislabeled....layout sucks, employees were rude. Doesn't make me want to go back.
went to microcenter randomly that morning not knowing it was a grand re-opening and happen to see ya at the end of your recording LOL. Couldn't believe how much stuff they had in stock.
Those cards sold out as soon as they opened the door. It was in stock for 10min.
Do they not do the lottery anymore?
I keep hearing about Micro Center, but never been to one. I looked at their locations, and they have one in Cincinnati, about two hours away from me. I have an old pre-built with a nice case I want to rebuild,so I think I will be making a trip up there soon.
Come to seattle please or tri cities. Micro center
Tri cities represent! Couldn’t agree more
I live near the Micro Center outside of Philadelphia, they are currently doing a pretty significant expansion as well. Maybe not quite to this scale but I can't wait to see the end result still!
It'd be cool for the Microcenter in Overland Park Kansas to get this sort of love, place is always freaking busy and rather small for the location.
Never been to the one here in MN
I 100% agree with you.
They need to just build an all new location here in ks 👌
I just got my 12700k and 3080 Ti PC built last week. Got all my parts from MicroCenter and they were all in stock.
That's awesome, last time I was there they were in the middle of tearing up everything, it was just a couple months ago, I had no idea they were taking the rebuild this far, hopefully their custom water cooling section is bigger, it was very weak before, I could spend all day browsing around that place
it's crazy that this is being appreciated when back in the day you had to go to the store to get anything 😂 but now a day most store's don't have anything you need, and the employee's recommend you to order it online 😂
I've been to both microcenters in Maryland in the last couple weeks and they don't have GPU stock or prices anywhere near that good. Don't expect Jayz experience to be replicated elsewhere.
That's because they literally diverted the stock from other stores to that one so it would be fully stocked for their GRAND REOPENING! That and that one store has more stock than any of the others.
@@robertmccracken6930 I figured that, but wanted people to have realistic expectations
If I didn’t already hav a GPU I’d run out and get one now lol
Just bullshit AMD cards if they do mostly. But i got lucky 2 diff occsions in Parkville got a 3070 once and 3090 another time. And I drove 2 hours to do it. But thats 2 outta 9 times and I got there around 5am. Love the new GPU policly tho or else I prob woulda got nothin
circa 1992...went into the Micro Center in Columbus, Ohio. I rode up the escalator and it was like going into heaven as I saw a freshly built gaming rig demoing Rebel Assault! I've loved Micro Center ever since! Loved the mom and pop shops too, but they have all basically dried up.
They REALLY NEED TO build more Microcenters they need to do one here in Burlington NC! :)
Just any micro center in NC
Agreed. Closest one is in Fairfax.
I agree. I've never been to one. There's only 1 in California and its in SoCal. For those of us in NorCal, it would be at least a 6-7 hour drive. We had 2 Fry's Electronics within a 45 mile radius of my town before they went out of business. Now, we only have some BestBuys that have a meager selection of computer hardware, even before the pandemic.
Milwaukee or Green Bay too.
Totally agree 👍
i almost cried when i saw the wall of GPUs at decent prices...
I chuckled seeing Phil in the reflection of a shelf window having to hold the camera up to Jay height to film him. Too bad the giant video card doesn't come in white to match.
9:21 for those who missed it. got me dyin over here
Every retailer should build an app like that where you can request help and it will tell them where you are. A few months back I went to Best Buy and I wanted a lens that was in a locked case and waited for 20 minutes and asked 3 different associates if they could send help to the camera section and help never came so I went to found a manager and told him how pissed I was. Ended up buying the lens from a different retailer all together.