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AMD Desktop CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X 3.80GHz 8-Core $230, Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7GHz 6-Core

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$150

$300

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Micro Center has Select AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors on sale as listed below. Select free store pickup where available.

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Micro Center has Select AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors on sale as listed below. Select free store pickup where available.

Thanks to Community Member Yukikaze for finding this deal.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location

Available:

Editor's Notes

Written by SubZero5 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this store:
    • Details of Micro Center's return policy (here)

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Yesterday 02:08 PM
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epiczailYesterday 02:08 PM
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No shipping for me. Closest store is 2.5 hours away. Sigh.
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JamesO9879Yesterday 03:17 PM
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Quote from epiczail :
No shipping for me. Closest store is 2.5 hours away. Sigh.
I'll post an equally useful reply. In the last 5 places I've lived, I've conveniently never been more the 40 minutes from a Microcenter across 4 different ones 🙂
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Yesterday 04:16 PM
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DaveD7295Yesterday 04:16 PM
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Some good deals for same CPU on Aliexpress with added discount codes, but shipping is really slow

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32...in_prod%3A
Yesterday 05:05 PM
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AsperYesterday 05:05 PM
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Amazon had it for like 170 during their Prime day deal, snagged one because I too don't have the privilege of having a Microcenter near me. Cheapest I have seen so far.
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83tnaznavYesterday 06:31 PM
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finally a use for my new helicopter
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Yesterday 06:37 PM
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PM'd at Best Buy. Thanks op!
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FaithfulGame3171Yesterday 06:43 PM
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wait for the 9600x to come back to $150 range
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The real slickdealer should have scored $400+ 7900x3d and $500+ 7900xtx in the amazon resale. Microcenter had 7700x for $100 in bundles a long time ago, and 5700x for $100 even longer time ago. If you can buy from microcenter and you are buying ryzen 5, you should wait for deals like that.
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Yesterday 08:19 PM
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flyjarYesterday 08:19 PM
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Ryzen 9 7900x for $269.99. What are the chances Newegg will make a price adjustment for me? I bought it for $313.99 4 days ago. I know slim to none, but I'll give it a shot.
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LesCasterYesterday 08:26 PM
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Quote from Seed-Slay-Slick :
The real slickdealer should have scored $400+ 7900x3d and $500+ 7900xtx in the amazon resale. Microcenter had 7700x for $100 in bundles a long time ago, and 5700x for $100 even longer time ago. If you can buy from microcenter and you are buying ryzen 5, you should wait for deals like that.
...by which time you'll want a newer proc than what's on a fire sale at that point in time. Or, you could find 'good deals' on the things you want 'now' and be using those things rather than waiting for an indeterminate length of time for an uncertain deal.
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av911Yesterday 08:54 PM
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How long do these sales usually last?
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Quote from LesCaster :
Quote from Seed-Slay-Slick
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The real slickdealer should have scored $400+ 7900x3d and $500+ 7900xtx in the amazon resale. Microcenter had 7700x for $100 in bundles a long time ago, and 5700x for $100 even longer time ago. If you can buy from microcenter and you are buying ryzen 5, you should wait for deals like that.
...by which time you'll want a newer proc than what's on a fire sale at that point in time. Or, you could find 'good deals' on the things you want 'now' and be using those things rather than waiting for an indeterminate length of time for an uncertain deal.
Great deals have a good chance happening not too long after release when initial interest faded. The deals I listed I said were all like that except the 7900x3d. 7900xtx is still current gen and rivals 5080 with no ray tracing.
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Quote from DaveD7295 :
Some good deals for same CPU on Aliexpress with added discount codes, but shipping is really slow

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32...in_prod%3A
I will only purchase CPU from stores where they have return policies. I only bought one Ryzen from Aliexpress (5700x3d) and it worked for 3 months (then died). It came in plain plastic clam-shell, like they were bulk purchased. Perhaps 2nd run quality tested results, from the factory. Never had any problems with Aliexpress motherboards.
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PocketsThickYesterday 11:13 PM
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Quote from AmusedMoon6137 :
PM'd at Best Buy. Thanks op!
Good call. The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is a nice grab at this price IMO. It is fascinating what AMD has done. It was originally a 65W TDP CPU which is much better than the much slower 7600x which has a 105W TDP. Less wattage = less electricity used, more money saved through the electrical bill, and less heat generated (and pumped into your room).

But apparently AMD has upped the TDP to 88W via motherboard firmware updates and then again to 105W via the AGESA 1.2.0.1a Patch A. The chip can be lowered down to operate at the lower 65W range like originally intended, or you could operate it at 105W and it would gain a much larger boost in performance. Not really in gaming though. This boost really shines if you were doing other things like video encoding, unloading large zip/rar files, a.i. local workloads, etc.

You could flip back and forth between the TDP ranges based on what you are doing. Like go to 65W when gaming, then up the TDP to 105W when doing the above mentioned tasks.

The thing that really sold me is the performance of the 9700x vs a 5600x (which I'm using now). The video encoding leap is tremendous. Even comparing the 9600x to the 9700x is a large jump too. In x265 encoding the leap was 20-30FPS faster compared to the 9600x. If you're encoding large videos (long runtimes) that will save you an incredible amount of time. The leap from 7600x to 9600x in video encoding is about 20FPS. So imagine the leap going from 5600x to 9700x. A real game changer.

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Just bought an AMD Ryzen 5 5500 in Micro Center for $55 to replace my 7 years old 5 1500x.

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