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Micro Center is up anywhere from $50 to $150 this week on its AM5 prebuilts and bundles. I've been doing the exact same spec builds, using the 7500X3D bundles, with build fee, as late as last week for $850. Find someone to build you a system with the 7600X3D bundle for $400, which is only up $50 this week, or go up to the 270K Plus bundle, which is still the best deal at $550.
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Micro Center is up anywhere from $50 to $150 this week on its AM5 prebuilts and bundles. I've been doing the exact same spec builds, using the 7500X3D bundles, with build fee, as late as last week for $850. Find someone to build you a system with the 7600X3D bundle for $400, which is only up $50 this week, or go up to the 270K Plus bundle, which is still the best deal at $550.
What is the 270k plus bundle? I need a powerful computer my 6 year old Dell laptop is too slow now to handle video editing
What is the 270k plus bundle? I need a powerful computer my 6 year old Dell laptop is too slow now to handle video editing
Right now's the worst time to buy for productivity systems, prices have now increased $100 for the 270K Plus bundle just since my post above. I'd hold off for MC to drop back down, post Prime Day sucker flurry. Multiple AI IPOs have been cancelled, data center build outs, and corporate CapEx is being rerouted. Both NAND and DRAM contracts are being signed for less right now, and the knock-on should be lowering prices in the coming months. Not much, but enough a buy now isn't recommended.
If you want to provide the laptop model, I can give a rough idea of what to look for in the next few weeks. A 7500X3D prebuilt isn't what you need, coming from a 6 year old laptop, for video editing.
Right now's the worst time to buy for productivity systems, prices have now increased $100 for the 270K Plus bundle just since my post above. I'd hold off for MC to drop back down, post Prime Day sucker flurry. Multiple AI IPOs have been cancelled, data center build outs, and corporate CapEx is being rerouted. Both NAND and DRAM contracts are being signed for less right now, and the knock-on should be lowering prices in the coming months. Not much, but enough a buy now isn't recommended.
If you want to provide the laptop model, I can give a rough idea of what to look for in the next few weeks. A 7500X3D prebuilt isn't what you need, coming from a 6 year old laptop, for video editing.
it's an old dell latitude that i've been using, i just need something somewhat portable so a huge case prob isn't going to work but if there was a $500 system that was pretty good then that might have been ok. I was looking at mini pc's but it seems like most of them are not very powerful. i dont rally need top of the line as im not gaming, but, i am using simple stuff like capcut which still runs pretty well on this old system for now. thanks for the tip on holding off, i can prob til end of year im just sort of itching to upgrade. storage is another thing as im running out of space, i need to find another sata drive enclosure or something, using a wavlink and recently i can't keep a stable connection for more than 10 min before it disconnects.
it's an old dell latitude that i've been using, i just need something somewhat portable so a huge case prob isn't going to work but if there was a $500 system that was pretty good then that might have been ok. I was looking at mini pc's but it seems like most of them are not very powerful. i dont rally need top of the line as im not gaming, but, i am using simple stuff like capcut which still runs pretty well on this old system for now. thanks for the tip on holding off, i can prob til end of year im just sort of itching to upgrade. storage is another thing as im running out of space, i need to find another sata drive enclosure or something, using a wavlink and recently i can't keep a stable connection for more than 10 min before it disconnects.
Sadly, right now $500 is the tall order. Those mini PCs at $500, are the exact same ones that were $250-300 a year ago or longer. They've refreshed model numbers on the units and the CPU / APUs even in some cases. For that price, I'd recommend used smaller workstations from 12th gen Intel, not 11th, not 13th / 14th. AMD is fine if it's a higher up Zen 3, like a Ryzen 5800, etc., but those are going to be harder to find used. These binned X3D SKUs are for gaming, and most of those mini PCs you likely looked at have higher productivity performance. The price killers are DRAM and NAND, but knock on impact to spinning rust is a bear too. Expect $35 a TB new, which is why I source used for around $10 a TB.
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Key Features
AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D (4.0GHz) Processor
ASUS B840M Max Gaming Motherboard
16GB DDR5-6000 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Graphics Card
1TB NVMe SSD
2.5GbE LAN, WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3
Windows 11 Home
If you want to provide the laptop model, I can give a rough idea of what to look for in the next few weeks. A 7500X3D prebuilt isn't what you need, coming from a 6 year old laptop, for video editing.
If you want to provide the laptop model, I can give a rough idea of what to look for in the next few weeks. A 7500X3D prebuilt isn't what you need, coming from a 6 year old laptop, for video editing.
it's an old dell latitude that i've been using, i just need something somewhat portable so a huge case prob isn't going to work but if there was a $500 system that was pretty good then that might have been ok. I was looking at mini pc's but it seems like most of them are not very powerful. i dont rally need top of the line as im not gaming, but, i am using simple stuff like capcut which still runs pretty well on this old system for now. thanks for the tip on holding off, i can prob til end of year im just sort of itching to upgrade. storage is another thing as im running out of space, i need to find another sata drive enclosure or something, using a wavlink and recently i can't keep a stable connection for more than 10 min before it disconnects.
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