$229 for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6C/12T Unlocked 4.4GHz AM4 65W with Wraith Stealth Cooler with free shipping to most areas. Surcharge for select payment methods: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx.
Cheapest I have seen and with free shipping unlike Scorptec and PC Case Grea who are charging shipping.
Price in title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seems like a fantastic price.
5700X seems pretty good at $369 too
Lol, who’s going through negging all the comments?
Is it jv?
Intel fanboy
profanity PCCG and their insistence on only allowing pricey shipping and removing their C&C service
This or Ryzen 7 5800x at $420? Worth the $200 difference?
Mostly for gaming on RTX 3080 with a bit of light photoshop work..
Go 5700x at $369 over 5800x at $420, it is very close in performance but doesn't run as hot!
My 5700x is faster due to it being a B2 revision chip.. once you enable PBO you have a chip that runs cooler, use's less power and clocks higher.
using CPU-ID at stock clocks no PBO my 5700x Stepping VRM-B2 benchmarks faster then a 5800X in both single and multi core. Most likely due to its lower temps, power draw keeping its boosts at max Mhz for a longer time vs a 5800X and my MSI motherboard ignoring AMD clocks and boosting to max mhz at the 65w TDP limit
Maybe if you could get a 5800X B2 revision chip it should beat it
Hmm, sounds good, do you know if all recent 5700x are B2 stepping?
@catchmeifyoucan: No idea.. i my 5600 was B1 purchased at the same time but others have received a 5600 B2
I dunno man, the gamers nexus review showed the 5800X beating the 5700X by 400mhz pretty consistently. I do think GN do honor the AMD spec though. That said, PBO you can only set +200Mhz.
@reactor-au: no idea why its blowing away a 5800x.. its either due to it being a new B2 revision of the chip or its a golden sample CPU..
My MSI motherboard is already boosting the thing at default bios settings.. :)
Think of it like this.. if a 5700x gets to 4.6Ghz
and a 5800x gets to 4.7Ghz
but the 5700x is at 4.6Ghz 95% of the time vs 5800x at 4.7Ghz 75% of the time the 5700x will be faster in benchmarks… the B2 runs cooler, uses less power and for some reason can boost all cores to a faster speed for a longer time at 65w vs a 5800x that needed way more power to do that but the heat makes it drops off mhz :) its pretty cool when you think about it.. pun intended
You probably won't notice much difference between the two in most games. However, in other workloads the extra cores will be a significant advantage. Also, if you're considering the 5800X, get the 5700X instead.
Where's the mobo deals? Looking for a good price on an ATX or mATX B550 board, preferably MSI (definitely not Gigabyte)
Would be good if the Shopping Express bundles were still in stock.
Looking to change over from my i5-8600/B360M mATX.
Had a quick look at their prices the other day, they were pretty average, with some boards priced well above Australian prices.
Even their open box/refurb prices weren't any good
In May they had 5600/B550 bundle for $314
@Techie4066: I wasn't even looking then, I'm building a PC for my kids for Christmas, and had no interest in going Zen 4, trying to keep it a fairly cheap 1080p Ryzen build (helps that I already have an RX580 that will keep them going for a while)
Wish I held out for this rather than getting the 5600x
don't worry, they'll be even cheaper next month so you can feel even worse then :)
Damn it :(
Ordered from last deal with PLE but taking ages to get stock in VIC I was told next week for my C&C order
Yeah me too - a week and a half ETA for my delivery
UPDATE: PLE let me cancel; reordered through here as C&C.
Thanks OP!
Thanks I just cancelled with PLE too
I too ordered from PLE, asked their chat to price match, they price matched :)
Thanks ordered from Scorptec with free shipping and no surcharges.
Worth upgrading from a Ryzen 5 3600 on an X470 board? Or are there issues/caveats not using newer board?
Not unless you can see 1- 10 FPS difference in games at 1080p, or 1-2 fps difference in games at 1440p? or unless you do some sort of compression or rendering then you might save 30 seconds here and there vs 3600…
So spend it all on a GPU - thanks, these deals are so tempting though!
they are great prices for this level of performance. only makes sense if you're on an older cpu say ryzen 1600 given the negligable difference between 3600 and 5600 in games etc esp at 1440p
@Doomedgrind: Should I cancel my order for an upgrade from my Intel i5-8600? It's paired with a 1660S which I know isn't the best but I guess because the CPU doesn't have hyperthreading it's running at 100% consistently (never exceeds 60C with my cooler) in 1080p games.
I have 32GB DDR4 2666 if that's relevant. Found a matching 2x8GB second hand.
I probably won't be interested in Zen4/DDR5 until prices drop and I'll cycle the components over again.
And I'd also like to fetch an okay price for my i5 and mobo.
@Techie4066: Sorry for late response. That's a tough one because the 8600 is still a great CPU but as you say, lacks hyperthreading. I would think it'd still run 99% games at the max FPS your graphics card can dish out. if you've got that 1660S my thoughts are the 8600 wouldn't bottleneck it but of course depends what games you play or how important playing those games are to you :) from memory - the 8600/intel platform wouldn't care much about the DDR4 2666 or if you bumped it to 3200, unlikely see real world difference. you also could try running on 2 sticks of the 2666 with total of 16gb ram, but then OC the memory up to 3200 see if it's stable. if you're only playing games, most games don't need more than 12-16gb ram if you just close any background tasks before running the game … hope this helps
@Doomedgrind: Thank you, that is helpful. I'm surprised mid-range performance hasn't increased the leaps and bounds that flagship CPUs have since 2018. In fact, I was quite lucky to have chosen the i5-8600 when I didn't really know I was doing - I was mostly going by price and it wasn't much dearer than the 8500 for faster speeds, without jumping up to the K or i7. (This was a year before I would've been able to compare to the Ryzen 3600)
Unfortunately I don't have an overclockable motherboard which is fine. I don't think my GPU is running at capacity as utilisation hovers around 70% while the CPU is constantly 100% even on the loading and home screens of Microsoft Flight Sim 2020. Btw that 32GB RAM fills up quickly with just MFS running and is super handy for everything else. The reason I mentioned the speed is because I wasn't sure of its suitability for AMD, but it's CL16 so seems fine.
Going off everything I've considered I'm probably best keeping the PC as is, running the occasional game on high graphics at 45fps/100% CPU and waiting for a good value Zen 4 derivative, purchased with a new mobo (and DDR5 if necessary). I've waited this long so may as well continue to until the next big thing - AMD looks to be moving fast. Since I'm not fully focused on gaming I think my GPU will still suit my needs.
@Techie4066: yes, agree. i'd be quite happy with your system. it would run most things quite well still. though that's coming from someone who doesn't care much for 'max settings or max fps' as there are more important things in life… zen 4 not far away, we're only talking couple months. I'd go with the full platform upgrade to B650 + 16gb + say 7600 equivalent :) but i'd also wait until next year so you don't pay 'early adopters pricing' :) enjoy
Steve from Hardware Unboxed/TechSpot just recently did a piece on the Ryzen 5 5600 vs Ryzen 5 3600 (and Ryzen 5 1600) in games.
You can find the video over on YouTube or the article on TechSpot.
The tests include a current-gen high-end GPU and mid-range GPU at both 1080p and 1440p, so you should be able to get an idea on what (if any) performance difference you might see between the two.
There aren't any major caveats to using a Ryzen 5000 chip on an older board, provided your board has a compatible BIOS update available. Two things to potentially be aware of are that BIOS updates for older boards will come less frequently and be more sporadic than newer boards, which ties into the second point that there was a fix in AGESA 1.2.0.7 for stuttering caused by enabling firmware TPM support - if your board only has a BIOS update for AGESA 1.2.0.6 for instance, you'll probably get stutters with fTPM enabled. The simple fix there is to turn fTPM off if you can (or leave it off if it's already disabled).
I'm currently running a Ryzen 7 5800X3D on an X370 motherboard with no major issues outside of the firmware TPM stutter.
Thanks tmr3, I'm literally looking at replacing my R5 1600 with a R5 5600 (non X) without upgrading my mobo. This helps seal the deal.
Thanks heaps! My MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max does indeed have a BIOS update supporting 5600 and 5600X, so I installed that yesterday in case responses here were more like "Yes, upgrade!" and less like "nah don't bother" :D
Thanks for those links. Will watch the vid at least. Very helpful.
Turns out the latest stable BIOS version for my board is AGESA 1.2.0.6c (the one I installed), the Beta version is 1.2.0.7 probably for exactly the reasons you've outlined here.
No worries, happy to help!
Yeah you'll typically find more of the 400-series boards are on either AGESA 1.2.0.6c stable, or 1.2.0.7 stable or beta. 300-series boards like mine are lagging behind a bit, depending on your vendor. ASUS released AGESA 1.2.0.6c in beta back in March, enabling Ryzen 5000 support ahead of the ~May timeline from AMD for AGESA 1.2.0.7, but no "stable" version has been released and AGESA 1.2.0.7 is tentatively earmarked for "Q3", which is a bit nebulous, but such is the nature of these sorts of things.
Will I notice much of an upgrade from a 2600? I have a 3060ti GPU and game at 1440p
Nope - have a read of tmr3's post above. you won't see much difference at 1440p. a few frames here and there. you could try OC your 2600 a bit to close the gap if you really need a few extra frames. otherwise i would think everything is running pretty sweet on your spec
People say not to rely too heavily on these benchmark sites, but here's a comparison between your Ryzen 5 2600 and this deal's 5600: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-5600-vs-AM…
Average score +35%
Overclocked score +33%
you won't see that in games though/hardly worth spending $229 when you've already got a 2600. 2600 should get you through to the new AM5 platform and say a ryzen 5 7600 or better in future
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