frontpageEragorn | Staff posted Sep 20, 2024 05:34 PM
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frontpageEragorn | Staff posted Sep 20, 2024 05:34 PM
Bundle: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X + 32GB G.Skill Flare X5 + Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX v2
+ Free Store Pickup$450
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The price of this bundle appears to have dropped $10 to $440, but it's still unfortunately not a very good deal for most people. Microcenter's 7700x bundle with the exact same motherboard and ram is currently $390, $50 cheaper: https://www.microcenter
The 9700x isn't substantially superior compared to the 7700x in windows for most common use cases (such as gaming, with a performance uplift of ~6%). Unless you primarily use linux, or have specific avx512 productivity workloads that are a primary use case for you (and even then you'd probably be better off looking at a higher core count zen 4 part), the 9700x simply doesn't deliver performance sufficient to justify the premium.
As a side note, for those with a higher budget and mixed use cases involving both gaming and productivity workloads, microcenter's $650 7950x3d bundle that also includes a substantially superior motherboard is another better value option: https://slickdeals.net/f/17769876-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-16-core-processor-msi-x670e-mag-tomahawk-wifi-mobo-g-skill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-ram-kit-microcenter-in-store-649-99
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The price of this bundle appears to have dropped $10 to $440, but it's still unfortunately not a very good deal for most people. Microcenter's 7700x bundle with the exact same motherboard and ram is currently $390, $50 cheaper: https://www.microcenter
The 9700x isn't substantially superior compared to the 7700x in windows for most common use cases (such as gaming, with a performance uplift of ~6%). Unless you primarily use linux, or have specific avx512 productivity workloads that are a primary use case for you (and even then you'd probably be better off looking at a higher core count zen 4 part), the 9700x simply doesn't deliver performance sufficient to justify the premium.
As a side note, for those with a higher budget and mixed use cases involving both gaming and productivity workloads, microcenter's $650 7950x3d bundle that also includes a substantially superior motherboard is another better value option: https://slickdeals.net/f/17769876-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-16-core-processor-msi-x670e-mag-tomahawk-wifi-mobo-g-skill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-ram-kit-microcenter-in-store-649-99
The 9700x isn't substantially superior compared to the 7700x in windows for most common use cases (such as gaming, with a performance uplift of ~6%). Unless you primarily use linux, or have specific avx512 productivity workloads that are a primary use case for you (and even then you'd probably be better off looking at a higher core count zen 4 part), the 9700x simply doesn't deliver performance sufficient to justify the premium.
As a side note, for those with a higher budget and mixed use cases involving both gaming and productivity workloads, microcenter's $650 7950x3d bundle that also includes a substantially superior motherboard is another better value option: https://slickdeals.net/f/17769876-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-16-core-processor-msi-x670e-mag-tomahawk-wifi-mobo-g-skill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-ram-kit-microcenter-in-store-649-99
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i bought better ram because i was in a hurry, and gskill later replaced the set, but i had to hassle with their website, box it up, and pay shipping to send it in.
questionable value
https://community.amd.c
if you are gaming at 4k in particular, non-x3d would generally be more cost efficient, because 4k gaming is usually limited by the gpu not the cpu.
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