Hot off my email is this deal, best I've seen so far.. Just in time for Christmas. Obviously you can get free shipping with Amazon Prime.
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Wait for 6600X, it will beat this processor in single threaded and come close to this in MT at price lower than this - that is if you can wait till Q1 next year.
Is it confirmed for released Q1 next year?
More leaks suggest Q1. Becuase its not a major architectural uplift and needs to be in much before Zen4, Q1 is a good possibility.
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/amd-could-launch-ryzen-600…
I've learned that Q1 means March 30, not January 1. Even before the era of shortages, stock never appears when it's supposed to
Won't you need a new motherboard for the new 6000 CPUs though?
That would be Zen 4 and would probably be called 7000 series(I may be wrong though). This is Zen 3 with more cache and supposed to have 10 to 15% boost in gaming.
Presume this is more a 1080p thing than a 2k or 4k thing? GPU remains really most of it then right?
@drprox: Next Gen GPUs released in Q4 are twice as powerful as per leaks. It will bring out the same performance difference at 1440p that we see at 1080p with current Gen cards.
@drprox: At what price, god only knows :( But competition is good. Hopefully AMD moving to 6/5nm to the new GPUs would free up the 7nm fabs for PS5/XBOX wafers and hopefully availability would increase on both fronts bringing prices down.
AMD may jack up the price of the new series like that did when the current revision came out.
Not when the 12600K has 10 Cores and beating 5800X's ass.
This is a pretty good price!
Pull the pin or wait until black friday / eBay 20% off?
Decisions decisions! I'm prime so includes shipping.
I love that I live in a time line where I see a 8c 16t CPU and shrug
I've had an 18 core cpu for a few years now so have been shrugging for a while lol
if you mean i9-9980, wouldn't it have cost like 2 or 3 grand?
Should be 499 or less. Only a matter of time
I agree, the 12600K is as good or better. Just that motherboards are not cheap yet.
12700K (not the KF version) was ~$650 on Amazon too just the other day.
Ahhhhh I already bought all my other parts pre black friday I must hodl on cpu…
Price drop is it because it has its arse kicked by i5-12600?
Because there's competition now, as well as a revision coming out in a few months that (supposedly) significantly improves performance
performance is pretty similar. i5 slightly ahead (usually about 5 or 10% in most games) but at the expense of a lot higher power consumption. Still that makes the standard price for this much too high now, especially with a revision on the horizon, definitely needs to come down some more to be a bargain (and I say that as someone that paid 650 for it last year)
waiting for deals on the 5600x
Me too and yet still somehow this is tempting! Guess a <$350 5600x will do it ;)
You and me both my mans
what cpu cooler should I get for this 5800x?
all stock setting no over clock.
If you want AIO recommendation I saw pretty good reviews for ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II and EK AIO. If you're looking for a fan cooler I have no idea.
I am running it with a Noctua NH-D15 and overclocked for single core boosting to 5.05Ghz for higher gaming performance.
But buy on newegg
got a 5700g from ebay for 400. couldn't be happier. runs cooler than 5800x and with couple of bios settings I (30mv undervolt and +200 max frequency) I am running at 4850mhz.
FYI this is the hottest ryzen chip. For a sff build question if you need this or go for 65w 5600x
Id say for most people purley gaming the 5600x is still the far better buy. 65 watt, runs cool, doesnt need an aftermarket cooler, negligible fps gains after 1440p compared to 5800x, 5900x. Pretty amazing cpu.
Just tempting to get 8 cores for future proof but when I saw the temp difference, boy it's a no brainer
future proofing is for suckers. If all you do is game then the 5600X is a far better buy. Any games that scale enough to render a 5600x obsolete will do the same for a 5800x. If however you run some multi threaded workloads like VM's or video editing, code compiles etc then more cores helps.
@gromit: Yeah, I don't see the point in future proofing. You save a hundred or two now which can then be used to upgrade in a couple years time along with the money you get from selling your existing CPU. You end up spending the same amount but having something better in the end instead of overspending now for something you don't need.
@gromit: I dunno CPU intensive games like battlefield 2042 are already putting 6 core CPUs like the 5600x to their limit at 100% utilisation, whereas 5800x obviously with more cores has a lot more headroom peaking at no more then 60%
@Robterkla21: Simple math will tell you how wrong your statement is. the 5600x has really only been maxed out in battlefield due to bugs or incorrect settingst, there are lots of articles around this. 5800x is less than 25% more powerful in ideal situations than the 5600x, yet you are claiming 40% drop in CPU? 5600x will easily handle battlefield. But yes battlefield is one of the more CPU intensive games and the 5600x will handle it easily.
@gromit: Watch YT hardware unboxed his video on benchmarking CPUs running Battlefield 2042 will explain it better then I have. But your mistaken, yes the 5600x will run BF 2042 at only slightly and rather negligible deficit to 5800x in terms of average frames, but in doing so it’s running at the very edge of its capability like I said less cores means less headroom, and while many say 6 core CPU’s like 5600x is good enough for now, it soon will be dated advice and 8 cores will be the new standard. As ps5 console is already using 8 cores despite being zen 2 architecture this sets a new precedent for future AAA game titles to utilise higher core count in future.
Needs to come down even more. The new 12600KF is on par or faster than the 5800X and can be had for less than $500.
Purchased it, I was debating whether to get the 5600x or this 5800x or wait all together for 6000 series to release 'early' Q1. Decided that across my 3 monitors and constant multi-tasking it would be worth it. Future proofing aside, I currently run an i7 6700k so this will be a massive upgrade. If and when the price goes down my 28 Degrees price protection will sort me out for the difference :D
Ill have to do some research to find out if updating my 3950x to one of the 5000 or 6000 series is worth it.
Very good price but I'm waiting for ebay sale…I expect price will be same or cheaper and deliver faster….