This was posted 7 years 2 months 21 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal.

Related
  • expired

AMD RYZEN 5 1600X - $284.35 ($257+$27.35 shipping) Shipped @ Newegg

130
AMD RYZEN 5 1600X - $284.35 ($257+$27.35 shipping) Shipped @ Newegg
Go to Deal
Cashback
Lsuicidesheep on 02/10/2017 - 13:38 newegg.com (231 clicks)
Last edited 02/10/2017 - 14:30 by 1 other user

Ryzen 5 1600x shipped by Newegg from $284.35

P.S - No stock cooler included

Computing AMD Computer Component CPU

Related Stores

Newegg
Newegg

closed Comments

  • ChubbyMastiff on 02/10/2017 - 14:01
    +1

    That's a good deal but it's hard to justify paying money for 1600X over 1600 or 1700. Ryzen 5 1600 with stock cooler you can OC it to 3.7GHz without worrying about temperature at all. If you plan to buy Ryzen 5 1600x + cooler it's better to spend money on 1700 which has stock cooler and can OC too.

    • umadbrahhhh on 02/10/2017 - 14:13
      +6

      yeah but no RGB on the stock cooler, everyone knows LEDs means more FPS.

      • suicidesheep on 02/10/2017 - 14:20

        Any Core 2 duo with RGB can play PUBG ultra settings :)

    • incipient on 02/10/2017 - 15:20

      Personally I'd consider this if i was going to put a passive (or semi passive) cooler on it for a silent pc. Otherwise yeah, your reasoning is pretty solid!

      • ChubbyMastiff on 02/10/2017 - 15:51

        Even then, you can buy 1600, use the save to buy a better passive cooler with LEDs (you can even sell the Stock cooler for $30 to add to that), OC it to whatever the 1600x can get to.

    • chossenger on 02/10/2017 - 18:50

      This 1600X is currently cheaper than any 1600 I've been able to find in Aus (they tend to be $275), and as the 1600's stock cooler is too tall for my case (SFF ftw), I'd need to buy another anyhow.

      That said, I'm going to wait until the black friday (anyone remember if we get any good fallout from that?) and Christmas/Boxing Day/New Years sales.

  • vicerum on 02/10/2017 - 14:24

    Shame the 1700 isnt on sale, I'd get one.

  • p1 ama on 02/10/2017 - 20:45

    Ryzen and Intel owner here - I have several systems, but one is a 1700X (OC to 3.8 GHz) and one is a 6700K.

    Although the 1700X is my main system, I would honestly say be careful to anyone thinking about buying into the Ryzen platform at this stage. I bought into Ryzen a few weeks after it was launched and I had all sorts of teething issues, including poor performance, finicky RAM support, long POST times and BSODs every now and then.

    My first motherboard (an MSI X370 SLI Plus) was a real dud and would be really unstable, even when the processor was at stock. I RMA'd the board and had the same issues before just giving up and purchasing a new board (the ASUS X370 Pro), which so far has given me far less grief.

    Regarding the performance, it's good if you need many cores, and that is a really big if. I bought into the platform because I thought it'd give me faster numerical calculations in MATLAB (a software I usually use), but the performance is hardly better than on the 6700K (it's not as multi-threaded as I thought) and in most other applications (e.g. games), the 6700K has Ryzen beat.

    Now that said, I really think this is a great value deal - at $285, it's quite a fair bit cheaper than the i5 7600K, but be weary of its weaknesses and be aware that the new 8600K with 6 cores is right around the corner which will have far better OC performance, and single threaded performance (admittedly for more $$$), but the new 8350K might be interesting - 4 cores, you can OC the hell out of it and it'll be cheaper than the current 7600K, so maybe around this price. Hopefully I've been fair!

    • MarsTitan on 02/10/2017 - 23:41
      +1

      unless you have the multi-core support feature turned on (need to pay extra), matlab generally uses only single core…

      On the other hand you can instantiate many instances of matlab and they all generally sit in a separate core (which is nice).

Login or Join to leave a comment
Login Join