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AMD RYZEN 5 5600X Processor - $299 + shipping $299.99
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LINK: https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy...-cart=true NLA
Also available, 5800x (though considered a poor value)
NEWEGG also in stock now: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-...6819113666
Also available, 5800x (though considered a poor value)
NEWEGG also in stock now: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-...6819113666
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Sold and shipped by Walmart (free shipping)
I think selling on eBay is riskier.
I've sure been able to get a ton of tough to find items so far... 5900x, 5950x, many ps5s, xbx, a 3060 ti, 3 sf750 psus, and 3 3070s. Most of them I get thinking of keeping, but then end up changing my mind.
Great processor, unreal single core speeds, and price performance this set up is great
I like newegg been using them for years and they only gave me an issue once, which I quickly took up with customer service and they fixed it and even gave me a gift card. Outside of that be a responsible buyer and dont think you can test drive things without penalties which is the biggest beef I see people have with newegg. They were also one of the first to impose a lottery system so scalpers could not get all the stock. When buying computer parts its a split between Amazon and Newegg currently for me.
I got some GPU's that I got buyers remorse from, thought I could sell them online and make $50-100, in the end honestly just was not worth my hassle or time so I returned them to the retailer.
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I use my PC for productivity (office work), gaming (AAA titles - 1440p/144 Hz), and content creation (Photoshop/Adobe Premiere). Basically, everything, but built around gaming (since a good gaming PC can handle all of those other things anyway).
The reason it's considered a "poorer" value than the rest of the lineup is because, if you're strictly gaming the 5600X is probably a better value. If you're more on the content-creation side, you'd probably want a 5900X (more cores). The 5800X falls in the middle, and feels like a poor value to some people. Think of it as a replacement to the 3700X.
The 5800X is expensive to produce because it is an 8-core, 16-thread CPU on a single CCD/CCX. In comparison, the 5900X/5950X are essentially two CPUs glued together; the 5900X is 6+6 cores. The 5950X is 8+8 cores. The 5800X is 8 cores, altogether on one chip. That makes it more expensive to produce, because the yield is lower.
The 5600X, for example, is essentially a lower-binned 5800X with failed cores disabled. 6 Cores/12 Threads is enough for games, as that is essentially treated as 12 physical cores. A 5900X is just a 5950X with failed cores disabled too. That's why they perform exactly the same, except for in tasks that perform better with more cores.
I came from a 3900X/RTX 3080 to a 5800X/RTX 3080, and I dramatically gained frames in many games with no other hardware or software changes. This is because IPC (single-core/per-core) performance increased ~20% between 3000 series and 5000 series Ryzen chips. In my case, I didn't need 12 cores/24 threads. What I needed was fewer cores that were more powerful each. That's what most games favor.
But again, it depends on your use case:
In my personal opinion (subjective):
Recommendation by Primary Use Case:
Oh, and in general -- Buy an appropriate cooler for your use case. I know it sounds obvious, but the 5800X, 5900X, and 5950X don't come with one in the box. If you use a dinky cooler, you will get poor thermals. But at the same time, you don't have to look too deep/far to find a good cooler for them.
8 cores
5600x
6 cores
https://cpu.userbenchma
Stay with your 3700x
Wife probably won't be happy but ah well.
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https://www.anandtech.c
TLDR; 11700K ~ 10700K in gaming
Edit: Intel fanboys already down thumbing this post because they can't handle that AMD finally destroyed Intel and Intel's 11th gen is still behind Zen 3