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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core AM4 Desktop Processor
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B&H Photo Video has AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core AM4 Desktop Processor (100-100000071BOX) for $269.99 (discount will show in cart). Shipping is free.
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Thanks to community member bluex610 for finding this deal.
Specs (details):
- 8 Cores & 16 Threads
- 3.6 GHz Base Clock
- 4.4 GHz Max Boost Clock
- Socket AM4
- 4 MB L2 & 32 MB L3 Cache
- Dual-Channel DDR4-3200 Memory
- Supports PCIe 4.0 x16
- Wraith Prism RGB LED Cooler Included
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The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor is a powerful eight-core processor with 16 threads, designed for socket AM4 motherboards. Built with Zen 2 architecture, the third-generation 7nm Ryzen processor offers increased performance compared to its predecessor. It has a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz and can reach a max boost clock speed of 4.4 GHz. Moreover, it features 32MB of L3 cache, 24 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, and support for dual-channel 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM. Users should pair it with an AMD X500-series motherboard to fully take advantage of PCIe 4.0. This processor has a 65W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and includes a Wraith Prism cooler with RGB LED lighting. Please note that it does not have an integrated GPU, so a dedicated graphics card is required.
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Not bad considering this comes with a wraith prism fan that's not bad tbh. I would probably choose this over the 5600x atm. Extra 2 cores will probably age a bit better.
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Not bad considering this comes with a wraith prism fan that's not bad tbh. I would probably choose this over the 5600x atm. Extra 2 cores will probably age a bit better.
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The 5 series has better architecture and faster core that can do more than just make up the core difference
The 5 series has better architecture and faster core that can do more than just make up the core difference
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What exactly do you have to be running to really take advantage of the 2 extra cores over the 5600x?
It just strikes me funny every time there's a deal on a ryzen 7 chip, people are selling it on the extras cores.
But then every time there's a deal on a dell or hp system, most people are selling them being "ok" for the "average user."
If an HP pavilion is good for most of the people lighting up those front page deals every time, its hard to imagine an r7 for around the same price as a 5600x is a very good/useful deal for many.
What exactly do you have to be running to really take advantage of the 2 extra cores over the 5600x?
It just strikes me funny every time there's a deal on a ryzen 7 chip, people are selling it on the extras cores.
But then every time there's a deal on a dell or hp system, most people are selling them being "ok" for the "average user."
If you close most things, and have just one screen, then yeah its unlikely.
What exactly do you have to be running to really take advantage of the 2 extra cores over the 5600x?
It just strikes me funny every time there's a deal on a ryzen 7 chip, people are selling it on the extras cores.
But then every time there's a deal on a dell or hp system, most people are selling them being "ok" for the "average user."
If an HP pavilion is good for most of the people lighting up those front page deals every time, its hard to imagine an r7 for around the same price as a 5600x is a very good/useful deal for many.
Also the prebuilt Dell and HP machines often have truly atrocious cooling, so that using them in a demanding multi core workload could cause the CPU to thermal throttle, killing its performance.
Sigh. Not buying a graphics card anytime soon either ….
What exactly do you have to be running to really take advantage of the 2 extra cores over the 5600x?
It just strikes me funny every time there's a deal on a ryzen 7 chip, people are selling it on the extras cores.
But then every time there's a deal on a dell or hp system, most people are selling them being "ok" for the "average user."
If an HP pavilion is good for most of the people lighting up those front page deals every time, its hard to imagine an r7 for around the same price as a 5600x is a very good/useful deal for many.
I bought 3700x and the only time it was running close to 100% was during Plex video conversion or real time streaming. I run a virtual machine on a couple of cores in background almost all the time, can have stream Plex, watch 4k video and do a few other things at the same time. It is an edge case, but having more cores is better than less, especially if you are planning to keep this computer for a long time. I have to mention I have 32GB of RAM, and the only time I was close to using most of it was during editing extremely high resolution images. For gaming and general day to day use, 4-6 cores is plenty.
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What exactly do you have to be running to really take advantage of the 2 extra cores over the 5600x?
It just strikes me funny every time there's a deal on a ryzen 7 chip, people are selling it on the extras cores.
But then every time there's a deal on a dell or hp system, most people are selling them being "ok" for the "average user."
If an HP pavilion is good for most of the people lighting up those front page deals every time, its hard to imagine an r7 for around the same price as a 5600x is a very good/useful deal for many.
There's trade offs to both, it's definitely a big difference in the way apps and games scale in the future though.
This reminds me of those old days of i5 i2500k vs the i2700k. Sure there were minimal gains at the time but as time went on the i2700k had way more life in it due to the cores.
Same happened with the 7600k vs the 7700k.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the new consoles PS5 and XSX use AMD nodes with 8 cores and 16 threads, I'm not an expert on coding but I would think this would make a big differences in games.
5600x is good since it does support pci 4.0 and Memory rebar if im correct. So there's trade offs.