This is my first Ozbargain post!! Any feedback would be appreciated.
I have been keeping an eye out for decent prices on Ryzen CPU's for a while. This is the cheapest I have seen on this site for a long time.
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Grizzly
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU - $333 + Delivery (or Pickup SA) @ Allneeds Computers
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Been waiting since 2009
For ram?
For prices to be cheap again. Not saying i haven't succumbed đŸ˜£
Haha my 2500k is still running strong since 2011. I bought my 16Gb RAM for $95 back then so to pay 150% more seems silly (true ozb style)
its was getting too much for watching hevc content, especially 4k. to top it off had a 980, so no hardware acceleration sadly
@TarquinOliverNimrod: A 980 GTX is still a pretty gun graphics card, I'd get a dedicated android box before I upgraded it for watching vids?
My GTX 950 does 10bit hevc @ least @ 1080p?
@jonathonsunshine: for some reason nvidia decided to give the 980 and 970 only partial hw acceleration. the 960 and 950 have full. pretty weird
This vs the 2600x?
There's barely any difference so I should just get the cheapest one right?2600X is a 6 core, but with a bit better performance per core due to the improvements made with the Ryzen refresh. I would say that for most use cases, the 2600X would be better, but even then, I would suggest a 2600 instead. This 1700X, as an 8 core, would be better if you intend to put all those cores to use.
The best Ryzen CPU would be a 2600?
2600/2600x - great for gaming, and if you plan to overclock and save money, 2600 is the better choice.
2700/2700x - aside from gaming, great for workstation loads too. same principle applies here, if overclocking, go for 2700
1700x - if 2700x is not in your budget, 1700x is not bad at all.It also depends on your motherboard. if you plan to get Zen+ (2600/2600x/2700/2700x) and x370 or b350 chipset boards, you need to make sure you have a way to flash new bios without a cpu, for example ASUS's EZ flash (or whatever they called it). 1700x has the advantage that you are able to get a cheaper board (see the price different on x370/b350 between x470 on pccg) that work out of box
@youkatei: 2600 comes with a worse cooler so if one were to spend the extra on a cooler for overclocking, it might be worth considering the higher out of box speed of the 2600X and the inclusion of the better Wraith Spire cooler.
@tmr3: You right :), I kind of forgot about the cooler difference since I was reading about X varieties mainly, should have noted that.
In terms of bang-for-buck and being a great all-rounder, I would say so. The 2600 is a good deal cheaper than the 2600X and aside from the nicer cooler, I don't see much value in going for the X apart from the name. With the 2600, you should be able to easily get to 4 GHz with no issues and if you have a good chip then maybe even a bit further.
If you can leverage the extra cores, I'd say go for the 2700. It's a bit more than this 1700X, but it improves on the biggest criticism of Ryzen which would be weaker single core performance and lower clock speeds. I think that it will take another refresh or two before Ryzen is optimised enough to reach the high clock speeds you can easily get on Intel (i.e. above 5 GHz pretty easily with the 8700K), because even disregarding architecture, Ryzen is already 20% behind on just slower clock speeds alone.
Aside 6 vs 8 cores, the 2XXX series essentially self-OC out of the box on auto settings, so you if you don't want to worry about OCing that's a major plus. Unless you use the extra 2 cores on the 1700x, you will have higher performance with the 2600X on auto than a max OC 1700x just by way of the 2600X auto boosting past what you'd get with the 1700x in addition to slight IPC improvements. Newer chip will also run cooler and use less power. IMO I would go 2600X over 2600 due to cooler+higher boost frequency which matters a lot as you spend a lot of time near the max boost with this generation. Manual OC generally isn't worth it with this generation as you generally get higher clocks on auto for lightly threaded applications than your manual all-core OC will be.
I have a 2700x and upgraded from a 1700 and feel it was a good upgrade for those reasons.
Get the newest one. Intel's been doing the same thing for 8 generations now, but ryzens a brand new design pretty much and I'm sure they worked out a lot of kinks. I feel bad AMD had to have their come back during a time when ram and gfx cards make building a new system so expensive….I used to budget the CPU being about half the cost of the total system, now it's like a qtr to a third… Sad times
I used to budget the CPU being about half the cost of the total system, now it's like a qtr to a third… Sad times
isnt that a good thing?
CPUs are still the same price though, give or take. Just memory and gfx have doubled. And ryzen likes good memory. If I had even 4gb of DDR4 just lying around, I'd have bought a CPU/mobo last year.
This was $315 like two days ago.
Shouldve posted it then….
Amazon currently has 2600X delivered for $290AUD.
Not sure how warranty would work, but Amazon has been great in regard to warranty on my Shield TV.
Big fan of this place, always great service. SA's only real answer to MSY.
Nice find. Cheapest on staticice Thumbs up. Now to wait for RAM prices to fall to more respectable levels :S