Microcenter [microcenter.com] has various bundles on sale below their officially listed price when you use the custom pc builder or add the components to cart separately. This is a price mistake where price drops for components erroneously apply in addition to bundle discounts. The pricing errors are usually fixed before stores open on the East coast, but if you order beforehand they tend to honor it. Shipping is not available for bundles. Availability is dependent upon stock. Select free store pickup where available.
Instructions:- Go to the Microcenter AMD 3-in-1 Combo Deals [microcenter.com] page or Microcrenter Intel 3-in-1 Combo Deals [microcenter.com] page, depending on desired bundle
- Click the "BUILD WITH IT" button for your desired bundle to add it to the "Custom PC Builder", keep in mind some of the price mistake bundles are "motherboard upgrades" to the right of the main bundles; DO NOT CLICK "BUNDLE NOW"
- The combo price in the builder should be significantly below the listed price, click "add to cart"
- Verify the expected lower price is reflected in cart and check out
You can also manually add the three components separately to your cart if so desired.
Bundles this applies to (links are to the bundle pages, do not add the bundles to cart, the components must be added separately):
- AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, MSI X870E-P Pro WiFi AM5, Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit, Computer Bu... [microcenter.com] for $619.99 (lowest price ever, official price $749.99)
- AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, MSI X870E-P Pro WiFi AM5, Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit, Computer Buil... [microcenter.com] for $519.99 (lowest price ever, official price $649.99)
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, MSI X870E-P Pro WiFi AM5, Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit, Computer Bu... [microcenter.com] for $829.99 (lowest price ever, official price $949.99)
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF, ASUS Z890 AYW Gaming WiFi W 1851, Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit... [microcenter.com] for $504.99 (lowest price ever, official price $529.99)
- (Only purchase this 9800x3d bundle if the 9850x3d is out of stock, it's the same price for a slightly worse cpu) AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, MSI X870E-P Pro WiFi, Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit, Computer Build ... [microcenter.com] for $619.99 (lowest price ever, official price $729.99)
There are a few more bundles with more minor discounts, they're not worthwhile compared to the ones I've listed above imo, but feel free to poke around.
If any of the three components are out of stock, a much higher price will be shown in the custom pc builder, try switching to a store with stock if this is the case. In past occurrences of similar price mistakes microcenters website has been flaky, if prices aren't showing up as expected, try waiting a few minutes before reattempting, switching to a different browser, and/or selecting a different store.
Once again, the pricing errors are usually fixed before Microcenter stores open on the East coast, so order asap.
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I did a little writeup to provide information on the different bundles (and before someone asks, no, not ai, just good old fashioned autism), I'm putting it in this comment so it's more visible:
At $520 the 9900x bundle is the best value for most people in my opinion, it offers a good mix of high (one step below top-end) gaming and productivity performance for a price that's frankly absurdly low considering the current market (ram apocalypse, economic disruptions from the war in the middle east, etc.). The 9900x is a current gen zen5 cpu with 12 cores and 24 threads, its gaming performance is in a similar tier to the r7 9700x (very slightly lower due to cross-ccd latency penalty, still pretty much on par with or better than any non-x3d cpu). Unless you're planning to use a rtx 5080 or stronger at 1080p, the 9900x should be more than sufficient. In terms of productivity the 9900x is the best value productivity focused am5 cpu available, while the 9950x(3d) has significantly better multithreaded performance, it's far more expensive and the price increase relative to performance is quite disproportionate.
At $620 the 9850x3d bundle offers significantly worse multithreaded productivity performance, but in exchange has literally the best gaming performance of any cpu on the market currently. The 9850x3d is a refresh of the 9800x3d with higher clocks (slightly faster than the 9800x3d, but not a huge difference), its a current gen zen5 cpu with 8 cores and 16 threads, and has massive amounts of L3 cache for gaming. If you don't use your computer for anything more cpu intensive than gaming and have a very high end gpu (or plan to upgrade to one in the near future), this bundle is worth considering.
At $830 the 9950x3d offers a combination of the best productivity and gaming performance on the market currently, but is quite a bit more expensive and generally not worthwhile unless you use your computer for both extremely heavily multithreaded productivity workloads and extremely high refresh rate gaming. The 9950x3d is a current gen zen5 cpu with 16 cores and 32 threads, and has massive amounts of L3 cache for gaming. Its gaming performance is top end (in a similar tier to the r7 9800x3d), and it's productivity performance is likewise top end (matching or beating all mainstream cpus, obviously excluding hedt like threadripper).
I personally wouldn't recommend the $505 intel 265kf bundle unless you have specific productivity workloads that greatly favor intel over amd. I included it in my post since it's still a good price, but people without those particular intel-favoring workloads would be better off going for one of the amd bundles.
Motherboard specs: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/P...cification
The motherboard included in the amd bundles is an upper-midrange (more upper than midrange) full size atx board using the highest end current-gen x870e chipset. It has a frankly overkill 14(60a)+2+1 vrm, an 8-layer pcb, good io overall, and most of the bells and whistles you'd expect with a current gen upper-midrange board. The am5 platform is guaranteed to support at minimum future gen zen 6 cpus as a slot in upgrade, and there are substantial rumors that am5 will also support two generation in the future zen 7 cpus as well.
A review of this motherboard can be found here: https://www.tomshardwar
The corsair vengeance rgb ram included in these bundles would've been somewhat disappointing a year ago, but considering the ongoing ram apocalypse it's actually decent. Ddr5 6000 cl36 is most likely using samsung b-die memory chips, which have vastly inferior tuning/overclocking potential compared to ram using hynix memory chips. The difference won't be significant if you just run your ram at stock expo settings, but if you're willing to manually overclock/tune there can be a noticeable discrepancy in performance. It's worth noting that amds x3d processors are less sensitive to slower ram due to their large caches decreasing the prevalence of cache misses. Unfortunately, superior hynix ram tends to have an absolutely absurd price premium in the current market, so ddr5 6000 cl36 is unfortunately the current value sweetspot. A 32gb 6000mt/s cl36 kit tends to go for ~$300 on sale (as low as $270 if you snag one of the short lived woot deals). For most people, the included ram should be more than sufficient.
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