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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor

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Micro Center has AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor (100-100000063WOF) on sale for $359.99. Select Free Store Pickup where stock permits.

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Key features:
  • 8 Cores, 16 Threads
  • 3.8 GHz Base Clock
  • 4.7 GHz Max Boost Clock
  • Socket AM4
  • 4MB L2 & 32MB L3 Cache
  • DDR4-3200 Memory

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  • About this deal:
    • This is the lowest price we've seen posted for this processor.
    • Our research indicates that AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor (100-100000063WOF) is $38 lower (9.54% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $397.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Includes 3-Year warranty for parts and labor
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Best Buy
  • About this store:
    • Eligible for return within 15-Days of purchase .

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Micro Center has AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor (100-100000063WOF) on sale for $359.99. Select Free Store Pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to community member j2ue for finding this deal

Key features:
  • 8 Cores, 16 Threads
  • 3.8 GHz Base Clock
  • 4.7 GHz Max Boost Clock
  • Socket AM4
  • 4MB L2 & 32MB L3 Cache
  • DDR4-3200 Memory

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is the lowest price we've seen posted for this processor.
    • Our research indicates that AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz Eight-Core AM4 Processor (100-100000063WOF) is $38 lower (9.54% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $397.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Includes 3-Year warranty for parts and labor
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Best Buy
  • About this store:
    • Eligible for return within 15-Days of purchase .

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Linoleum
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How can you call it "old tech" when its replacement/upgrade is not even out yet?
hardypotion
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Remember if you live in NYC area the Micro Center in Paterson NJ only charges 3.2% tax instead ofthe apporx 8.9 yet charged in NYC and Yonkers
cobelali
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Old tech? This is state of the art. Even the new 11th gen from Intel can't compete. If you think this is old tech, you should avoid giving computer advice.

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Aug 2, 2021
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SChapuccino
Aug 2, 2021
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I did a comparision, so my how is this better than the Ryzen 7 3700X 9 Core you get more bang for the buck.

Description CPU Mark Price CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price) Notes
Ryzen 5 5600X Vermeer 6 Core 22,162.00 $259.99 $85.24 Wraith Stealth Cooler
Ryzen 7 5800X 8 Core 28,507.00 $359.99 $79.19 No Heatsink
Ryzen 7 3700X 9 Core 22,788.00 $239.99 $94.95 Wraith Prism Cooler
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amir47
Aug 2, 2021
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Quote from stereo55 :
Dang that is a nice price .. A part of me kinda thinks I should have waited and went for this deal today vs the 5900x I grabbed months back .(and it was a pain to get the 5900x even at Micro Center )
I did the same. Wonder if we can sell out 5900x? I really wanted the 5800x but not for $450. I wanted it for $400. $360 is a no brainer.
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nicee, I can't wait for gpus to be in stock like this
Aug 3, 2021
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dirtyvu
Aug 3, 2021
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Quote from essix8 :
Yeah, these prices are fine, but in 3 months Alder Lake 12th gen will launch and have better single thread and multithread performance, DDR5, PCIe 5, etc. Basically a next-gen CPU. Even if youre not interested in buying a better CPU because youre already on AM4, AMD WILL drop prices to compete because Zen 4 launches in 12 months, so price cuts is all AMD can do.

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel...h-r20-test

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel...tion-event

If youre not on AM4 already, Zen 3 is a dead end socket, as Zen4 is on AM5. Also LGA1700 (Intel 12th gen socket) is expected to last through 14th gen, meteor lake, Intel 4 node with tiles (chiplets), so youre 'investing' in a 3 year platform vs a deadend with AM4 or LGA1200.
spoken like a true Intel fanboy...

Intel changes RAM and sockets all the time. there is no such thing as a 3 year platform with Intel.

that chip will be a furnace at 200W...

I'll give Alder Lake the benefit of the doubt... Even though Intel has been lagging for awhile. Meanwhile, AMD is not standing still either...
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LordPope
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Quote from hardypotion :
Costco seems like the best club store from what I see here (the deals I cant get). We have a BJs and its minor league compared to Costco. I don't even bother joining anymore
costco has the killers deals... best club
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hardypotion
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Quote from PopeP :
i am trying to hold out till next spring..when the tech really bumps up...
I would like to hold out but I know not to buy a first generation of anything. A new socket with a new CPU is going to have some edges that need polishing off. Then you have DDR 5 which will cost a lot when new. Then PCIe 5.0 is coming up. I decided to skip all the 1st gen commotion and get something from the top of the AM4 heap.

I just got the 5800X. I was going to get a Asus X570 mobo but the Tuf on shelf had no USB-C. Then I Saw a Tuf 550 Plus for $170 - $150 with the $20 off. It has USB-C + 2.5 GB ethernet so I went with that. WIth all the crazy prices the last months a 5800X with ASUS USB-C mobo for $510 was pretty good. The AMD RX 580 gpu I bough 2 years ago for 210 was selling for $900 a few weeks ago - $750 used on ebay lol
Last edited by hardypotion August 3, 2021 at 02:30 PM.
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namlook
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Quote from SChapuccino :
I did a comparision, so my how is this better than the Ryzen 7 3700X 9 Core you get more bang for the buck.

Description CPU Mark Price CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price) Notes
Ryzen 5 5600X Vermeer 6 Core 22,162.00 $259.99 $85.24 Wraith Stealth Cooler
Ryzen 7 5800X 8 Core 28,507.00 $359.99 $79.19 No Heatsink
Ryzen 7 3700X 9 Core 22,788.00 $239.99 $94.95 Wraith Prism Cooler
3700X vs 5800X [wepc.com]

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Aug 3, 2021
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Cintel7
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Quote from megazone23 :
It the dumbest to wait another year and pay premium for every hardware that can benefit from those new tech.
It will take at least another 2 year for those to drop to the price of current "old" tech.
Yeap… he will wait for another year and then buys Ryzen 3 instead because the difference performance does not justify the extra cost yet. Go figure.
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BeautifulName3713
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got it with 3 Year Replacement Plan. good price!
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azoiic
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new to amd. which processor is good for mid tier games like PoE 2, Diablo 2 R ?
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j2ue
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Quote from azoiic :
new to amd. which processor is good for mid tier games like PoE 2, Diablo 2 R ?
If you're on a tight budget, or you plan to upgrade in 3 or 4 years, get the R5 5600x. If you've got more budget or plan to upgrade in 5+ years, get the R7 5800x.
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jarrodrex
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Quote from toygixxer69 :
I can validate that. I was in Microcenter in Tustin, CA today. The price was between $1600 - $2100. They actually restocked 3070 & 3080 while I was there. But I didn't bother.
Wow $1600 for a 3070. I'm really glad I convinced my son to buy a prebuilt with a 2070 super before gpu prices started going crazy. It was right before 3080s were coming out. I think he spent 1600 on the entire system.
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hardypotion
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Quote from azoiic :
new to amd. which processor is good for mid tier games like PoE 2, Diablo 2 R ?
I watch Tech at "Tech Deals" on Youtube because he knows as much as other reviewers without shoveling hype. He said you could play 95% of games at 1080P with a Ryzen 2 2600 and Nvidia 1660 (which was under $200 last year). Steam shows about 14% of gamers have 2 cores; 39% of them have 4 cores; 32% of them have 6 cores; 14% have eight cores and only 1% of gamers have 12 cores

So 85% of PC gamers have 6 cores or less.

A Ryzen 5 2600 is still good. A caveat is that every generation of Ryzen has been more stable. I had no issue with a 2600 but I was sure to check AMD's memory vendor list to buy memory thy approved. But even now there have been a lot of bios updates on AMD chips and mobos.I would get a newer mobo and a 550 or X570 can handle a chip from 2/3000s as well as a 5000. Really, the hard part will be getting a gpu that's not stupid expensive

https://store.steampowered.com/hw.../?sort=pct

There is a new article out about the G-series processors with graphcs built-in. Maybe something like that helps until the prices come down


The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, Ryzen 5 5600G, and Ryzen 3 5300G Review
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16...apu-review
Last edited by hardypotion August 4, 2021 at 04:53 PM.
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Quote from hardypotion :
I watch Tech at "Tech Deals" on Youtube because he knows as much as other reviewers without shoveling hype. He said you could play 95% of games at 1080P with a Ryzen 2 2600 and Nvidia 1660 (which was under $200 last year). Steam shows about 14% of gamers have 2 cores; 39% of them have 4 cores; 32% of them have 6 cores; 14% have eight cores and only 1% of gamers have 12 cores

So 85% of PC gamers have 6 cores or less.

A Ryzen 5 2600 is still good. A caveat is that every generation of Ryzen has been more stable. I had no issue with a 2600 but I was sure to check AMD's memory vendor list to buy memory thy approved. But even now there have been a lot of bios updates on AMD chips and mobos.I would get a newer mobo and a 550 or X570 can handle a chip from 2/3000s as well as a 5000. Really, the hard part will be getting a gpu that's not stupid expensive

https://store.steampowered.com/hw.../?sort=pct


Really depends on what you are doing-- and at what resolution.

If you're doing 4k gaming on a card that can legit handle 4k, your CPU is virtually irrelevant for most games.

You'd barely notice running the highest end 2021 CPU available versus an i7 from 2013.



If you're running CPU-bound lower res stuff, then you'll notice a fair bit more difference.


https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net...0.png.webp

8% fps difference on a 3080 at 4k/Ultra across 9 different games between 10th gen i9s and a 4th gen (2013) i7.

0.2 fps difference between an i3 10th gen and a Ryzen 3600, another 0.3 difference from the 3600 to a 3900X.

Basically no difference.... and you'll get essentially no improvement from a CPU upgrade if your CPU is like anything made in the last 5 years.



Same 9 games at 1080p/medium on same 3080 and same CPUs-
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net...0.png.webp

80 fps difference from the 2013 i7 to the 10th gen i9. 12 fps bump from the i3 to the Ryzen 3600, another 14 fps from the 3600 to the 3900x.





And obviously for productivity work the difference can be pretty significant.
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hardypotion
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Quote from Knightshade :
Really depends on what you are doing-- and at what resolution.

I played Borderlands 3 (over 300 hours), Red Dead Redemtption 2 and Elder Scrolls Online with a Ryzen 5 2500 and RX 580. At 1080 I had no problems except that there were bugs in the games. That's what gets me is how hardware people say we'll need "this and that" in 2 or 3 years when the games are released with glitches, bugs etc. Look at Cyberpunk - legions of fans just had to stop playing. The $2000 cards dont fix games like that. Seems like well optimized games run on ok hardware and even the AAA games can run like crap on gpus that cost as much as a semester at a state university

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