Over 20% off AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. Sale ends sale ends 5pm AEST on 24th December or while stock lasts. Limit 1 per customer.
This AMD Zen+ CPU is built on 12nm and has 8 cores / 16 threads, it's great buy for heavily threaded workloads or gaming + streaming. It has a 3.7 GHz clock speed & 4.3 GHz boost clock speed, 20mb cache, 95W TDP and includes a Wraith Prism (LED) Cooler.
Should have bought one when the 2700X was $199 on Amazon a few weeks ago. Hesitated and it was gone
Ouch, sorry to hear. When Amazon has a sales I honestly doubt I'd ever be able to compete on prices like that lol. I'm assuming that was shipped from Amazon US? I guess at least the best I can do is offer express postage and as I'm local it should be very quick delivery instead of waiting for overseas delivery :-)
Best of luck with your Christmas Holiday deal hunting :-)
there are heaps of 1700x for under 200 on aliexpress, they should be same architecture but lower clocked
Any Intel special?
Unfortunately not at this time I'm afraid. But if you send me a pm I'll see what I can do for you.
Out of curiosity why would you want Intel at the moment? Or are you just looking at a CPU upgrade with the same motherboard?
Yes because at the moment I am using Intel i5-6500 CPU 3.2 Ghz from a few years back
Unfortunately none of the current Intel CPUs are compatible with older motherboards. So if you wanted a new CPU you will also need to get a new motherboard anyway.
However if might be worth looking at a 2nd hand i7 that is compatible if you're on a budget.
Nice but it's outperformed by the this years 3600x which costs around the same..
Generally gaming yes I would agree. But does depend on workload too :-)
This is still a bit faster in a lot of multi-threaded and productivity workloads. There are quite a few benchmarks and reviews comparing them on youtube.
Bingo, even just get a 3600 for something like sub-$280 on eBay. These are post-EoL prices, not a sale or clearance price.
Deals for this have been <$280 for the past few months
It's currently $259.91 from Amazon AU, shipped from the US, free shipping with Prime.
https://www.amazon.com.au/AMD-Processor-Wraith-Cooler-YD270X…
why would anyone get this when you can get the 3600 on ebay during sale for the a mucher cheaper price and its faster with less cores and less heat?
The 2700x can be purchased for cheaper than a 3600. The 2700x has two more cores, so will be superior to a 3600 for high thread workloads.
For gaming you would be better off with a 3600.
I do not believe that you are right, the 3600 from what I know has a similar multi-thread score as the 2700x. 8 cores would probably be useful for some VMs where you may want to assign cores to it… but that is about it.
Well I'm not wrong, so… hmmm… …
There are more use cases than just a VM machine that benefit from a higher core count. I think media servers would be one example.
2700x for $257 on Amazon seems like a more attractive option for those who prefer RGB cooler and extra cores over gaming performance.
noice!