The best deal for RYZEN 3900x so far considering that AUD sank to 0.64 USD again…
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I'm actually surprised that Zen 2 CPUs retain its price very well. Probably due COVID-19 and lack of competition from Intel side.
It was a bit cheaper before Covid at $665 from a dodgy eBay seller so I'm going to wait a month to see how the 4000 CPUs perform before going for it.
I got mine on the deal. It wasn't dodgey?
Ordered, sent the day after and then received it a week later…
Wtf is these claims?
Well you're definitely in the minority there.
That dodgy seller FTC_computers scammed a lot of people on ozb. Myself included.
@[Deactivated]: no, they oversold lots of different products by about 10 to 1, to the point that Ebay investigated them and removed their store, and now they no longer exist.
@puppetmaster: Can confirm, had to chargeback. Gave them a month to reply with multiple follow up emails - nothing.
these claims are legit
Was burned by them. Had to appeal to Ebay multiple times via chat just to get my funds back
I thought 4000 not due to next year
When zen3 Ryzen 4000 comes out in a few months prices on 3000 series Zen2 chips will drop bigtime.
Wonder if they'll be like old Intels now, holding fairly high prices because most people upgrading on AM4 will be aiming for the 3900X/3950X now.
Not everyone wants a 105W CPU or have the motherboard VRM's to cope with one but YES…. Second hand 3900X/3950X will be top dog just like the i7 7700k was for intel and prices will reflect that.
There will still be huge sales from Retailers clearing out old stock of NEW 3900X/3950X so we will still see great deals pop up.
I think what he means is a lot of people bought B450 boards, which wont work on ryzen 4000. They might have a lower end 3rd gen ryzen (3600 or 3700x) and it would work out cheaper to upgrade to a 3900x or 3950x instead of a new mobo + 4000 chip, similar to how people bought low end i3s and upgrade to i7s.
@NigerianGirthLord: I love that with AMD I can go back to getting excellent CPUs on a budget but to be honest my 3600 is already overkill so should stop wanting more :D
I doubt desktop 4000 CPU's will come out before October… at the very earliest. Hopefully they don't take too long…
I'm still pissed off we got screwed by FTC Computers for the 3900X for $599 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/512771
Haha having that in the history books makes any new deal seem expensive.
I ordered but got refunded from that deal.
Finally got my money back from that about 3 weeks ago. Ebay ended up having to refund me out of their own pocket.
@Kerb My heart bleeds… lol
Wow, FTC just took the money and ran? I thought Paypal would have covered them?
I must have missed that deal, if you don't mind me asking, what happened? Are FTC unreliable to purchse from?
Bought several items off them as part of the deal posted by @videoman. They sent false tracking notifications and then an invoice, but several including myself never had the goods sent.
Asked for a refund from Ebay after 3 weeks. 2 Items were refunded without issue, but the third item never was and FTC never put enough money in their account for Ebay to draw down from.
Case went around in circles between Ebay and Paypal for months until Ebay GmbH finally cashed me back under buyer protection recently.
What was interesting to note is how buyer protection seemed to work. When Ebay decides to refund the money, that money comes from Ebay helping themselves to the vendors bank account. If there is no money that account, things seem to go off the rail.
@evuser: Thank you for the story Kerb. I bought 3900x from scorptec for under 700, then find that 599 deal in 2 weeks. thank god I didn't return that one and order from FTC but I was truely tempted.
@evuser: That is such a nightmare scenario - I initially thought it'd be a case of just waiting for them to deliver but after a month I got worried.
I pushed to have Ebay refund it asap, and had to pester them several times via chat. I think the ones who realised early and requested refunds got the funds back asap while the ones who were behind basically had to go through the limbo you suffered
Good price given recent deals.
Processor is a beast and probably overkill for most haha
How is the international shipping times with this pandemic going on?
Seems like amazon changed delivery companies. My last packages came through dhl, via singapore, and only took a week or two.
Compare that with a March order, which apparently was lost after being stuck in a NY parcel centre. It eventually showed up after 5 weeks
I ordered the 3900x from Amazon on May 4th after it was advertised here the other day. It shows for me that it was shipped on May 7th, but it's not had much movement since. Amazon said (via chat) that it was last scanned in San Bernardino California on May 11th, but not sure where it is now. The tracking on the Amazon My Orders page doesn't give me much info aside from "Shipped May 7th" and I can't work out which courier company has my delivery (have tried my tracking number on all the big ones)
This is why I was happy to pay a bit more for the shopping express deal. Delivered <48 hours after order.
That's certainly fair, I've had some other items recently come from Amazon US and they arrived within a week, but this time around not so lucky
@roweysvn: yea amazon is unpredictable lately
Bought a WD Ultrastar 8TB - delivered by fedex in about a week.
Bought GSkill ram (and ordered 3900X but cancelled that and got from elsewhere) - didnt ship for about a week, shipped by "Fastway" but a appears to be being bulk shipped to Sydney then handed over to fastway and taking its sweet time…
Bought 2070S from new egg and it came by UPS, arrived in 5 days and beat everything coming from local
@macmanluke: Ha, yeah I ordered some ram with my 3900X and it's got Fastaway as the carrier too. Tried asking Amazon support who the real carrier was but they just kept saying Fastaway so not much help there.
I ordered mine april 30th and it arrived today.
I've heard from people living in US that Amazon US is overloaded with orders - Prime deliveries which used to be next business day most of the time before now might take up to 3 weeks.
I had stuff delivered from Milan the other week so should be fine if its a big enough company
be wary of the smaller companies
Don't need this, 3600 is probably the sweet spot…and yet I want this.
Agree. Most people dont need that many cores. IPC and clock speeds are what matters. Its better to save that money and invest them on next upgrades where IPC and clock speeds would have increased. A simple Zen 3 4600 might easily beat the 3900X or 3950X in gaming for example.
I'm after it for encoding which this is pretty much king. Also looking at building games, rendering the graphics would be so much quicker with this. Anybody using this for gaming or general work should definitely look at other options.
Yup, I agree. But its better to get atleast an 8 core CPU for gaming considering the next gen console games will be optimized for that many CPU cores. The recommened(not the minimum) CPU requirements for many games might be 8 cores and 16 Gigs of RAM.
FFS Amazon… As someone looking for a cheap 3700x, can you stop it with the 3600 and 3900x promotions!
SNAP, I hear you! 3700x deals are pretty much non-existent now.
I was waiting for ages, i gave up waiting just purchased a 3600 instead
with the 3600 as a baseline, 3700X seems to be in an odd spot at the moment as you're paying a bit under double for 2 more cores. On the other hand pay double + a little bit and you get yourself double the cores with a 3900.
The 3700x does has some unique core-core latency advantages over the 3900x, due to having 2x perfect 4-core-CCX units, compared to the 4x disabled 4-core-CCX unit's of the 3900x. So in very particular situations, like say, running an 8 core playstation 3 emulator, the 3700x is actually superior to the 3900x since it has less latency penalties.
You can see this latency measured in this review of the 3300x (where the 3300x has a single perfect, 4-core-CCX unit)
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15774/the-amd-ryzen-3-3300x-a…
Though i do agree with the 3900x being better value
@idjces: I wouldn't assume the poor showing from 3100X is because of inter ccx latency. 3300X has 16MB unified L3 cache while 3100X has 16MB split across two CCXes. A game running on 3300X might have access to double the L3 cache compared to 3100X.
@Hoges: Yes interesting points regarding the 3300x
I was specifically referring to the tables of latencies on the review page, and how that is an example of the benefits a 3700x has over the 3900x in unique situations, such as rpsc3 - an 8 core app relying on a lot of inter-thread syncing.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15774/3300X%20Bounce.png
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15774/3100%20Bounce.png
Just get a 3300x and jump to 4th gen later
I would have if I knew it was coming! :(
FYI for anyone considering this, get a x570 mobo or wait for b550.
There is no AMD Zen 3 Support on 400 and 300 Series Motherboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2hUxKypkE
I really have no idea if it will happen or not, but last year there were some fantastic flash deals for 2700X during Oct-Dec 2019, as it was old gen, and they clearing stock… I guess I'd be hoping for the 3700X to have a similair effect at the end of the year when 4000 series comes out… #WishfulThinking
Very good price for 3700x here, ordered one myself.
Alright all this time at home is making me itch to upgrade.
Let's say if we had to RMA due to hardware fault(I know CPU rarely does), how long is our warranty and who covers our return postage?
Do I actually need to send this back to US, wait for them to test it, send to their manufacturer before obtaining a replacement which they then send back to us here?
Glad to see AMD back as a real competitor. The deals get deserved attention as well.
Check this out: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/qBfPDx
I look ed at the prices history and found that 3900x is cheapest ever….with the components like mobo, ram and graphic card roughly 25% more expensive atm..
The case, ssd and psu are not significantly more that earlier in the year or even last year.
Correct me if am wrong on this.
I decided to build the machine myself as I have never done it before. Just unsure should I wait for Zen 3 chips???
Cheres…
Frayin on 14/05/2020 - 17:58 Comment score below threshold.
