Found this deal while I was looking for the 6500XT.
I'm currently using 3900X at home so probably it's worth upgrading.
Enjoy!
Mod Update: Currently on back-order. Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months.
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Yes it sure "was" 👍😁🤑😜🤣
Wut? In future, if that emoji dump also faced the same fate you alluded to that’d be appreciated.
Emojis mixture of agreeing great price, annoyed I missed out AGAIN, cheakyness not just me to miss out, crying at the end lolz
@Italkdigital: Please, just use your words! Based on your written version, I read those emojis way off the mark. (Also, frustrating or bothersome to try infer what could otherwise be read quickly)
@ctg: Maybe then you should take what's written only, I'm sure there's no exact definition for each emoji, don't know why we're having this conversation over emojis lolz, anyway I better finnish off with a smiley ☺
Really good price
Wow great price. Thanks!
Wondering if I should upgrade my 3700x to this or wait for AM5 which is coming out in the second half of this year. The only CPU intensive task I currently do is x265 encoding and the newer Intel's seem to do much better with that particular workload.
This will be MUCH cheaper than anything brand new that comes out. Especially considering you'll have to upgrade everything else in your system. Then you have chip shortages on top of that.. if you wait for AM5 you probably won't be upgrading until 2023
That's true. A half decent AM5 board with good VRM's + DDR5 RAM upgrade might cost significantly more.
I've placed an order now, the long dispatch time means I have time to ruminate on the decision and can cancel if it hasn't been shipped.
Seomtimes wait times are shorter then stated…. i've had items sent out the next day that were not in stock and ETA was 1 month.. worst case you can post it back for free.. 30 day money back ext ext.
The only CPU intensive task I currently do is x265 encoding and the newer Intel's seem to do much better with that particular workload.
Any chance that you can use NVENC? Much more efficient than CPU encoding overall.
Problem with NVENC is the lower quality, yeah?
Supposedly, but whether it's noticeable I don't know. Personally I can't tell whether a video is encoded with x264 or NVENC.
Nvenc produces lower quality vids than CPU at the same settings. The file sizes are also much larger. I tested a 1GB H264 file and handbrake spat out a 0,7GB file with Nvidia Nvenc but got a 0.5GB file with CPU x265 (custom preset).
So in situations where I want a much smaller file size, I use CPU encoding instead. It does take a lot longer and I use more electricity.
Not that I have to worry about it anymore, monster 12-core CPU coming soon. CPU encodes all the way from now on.
@scrimshaw: I've never been impressed with handbrake, which is why I use StaxRip. Depending on the source of the 1GB H264 file (want to link it so I can crunch it?) I'd expect a 1/3 or up to 1/10 (animation) sized compressed file to be output. Generally a 1.8GB 1080p source h264 file will output to 400-500MB for live action or around 200MB for animation.
My NVenc settings are (two pass, vbr):
—vbr 0 —codec h265 —preset P7 —output-depth 10 —multipass 2pass-full —vbr-quality 33 —aq —aq-temporal —bref-mode middle —bframes 4 —ref 5 —lookahead 32 —multiref-l0 5 —multiref-l1 4 —vpp-deband range=24,thre=6,thre_y=6,thre_cb=6,thre_cr=6,dither=24,dither_y=24,dither_c=24
most times I also tend to AAC compress the audio as my surround sound handles AAC decompression up to 7.1 channels.
Typically much of the reason for encoding to HEVC is for smaller file sizes. And NVENC unfortunately negates a lot of this (although is much much faster OG course, with minimal quality differences if using a newer card).
Intel always seems better for encoding/photoshop/editing type situations for ‘like for like’ chips. The fact the 12900k beats out the 5950x with fewer threads in a lot of tasks goes to show what a difference software refinement can also make. Windows 11 is very nice for those P/E core designs it seems.
why are people saying nvenc doesn't produce small files? when used correctly it works fine (I've spent about 4 years working with nvenc across GTX 1060 through to current 3xxx series GPUs and it's gotten better with two pass encoding producing great results for file size and maintaining image quality (I've literally done a frame to frame comparison and pixel differences were less less than 1% from memory (actually I'm sure it was 0.1% or something ridiculous.)
just DON'T use handbrake.. it's not good imo.
Thanks. Just bought one :)
Man such a good price…. It will be gone pretty soon
Is this price drop in response to the 3D cache upgrades?
E: No 5900x3D yet
We will only see a 5800X3D … its more of a stop gap halo gaming product until AMD5 Zen4 comes out… all the Zen4 products will be faster then a 5800X3D
What even the slowest AMD5 Zen4, I doubt you'd be comparing (if their available) the G versions, like the 3000G as an example (whatever the 5000 series are called)
i was thinking from the 6600X on onwards
The early demo they compared a 5900x with a '12 core 24 thread 3D cache prototype'
What a true disapoiintment that was, 1 model, it's late, no 5900 or 5950 - nope./
This is why Zen 4 being sped up I think.
Probably because the 3D upgrades arent significant enough to take on 12th gen.
Dman, only $50 more than my R7 5800x
thats why I bought 5900 just then.
zOMFG, my 5800x was $580
It just goes to show how much margin they make during FOMO chip shortages … and they're still making a killing even at this price
You’re also paying for the lower wafer yields early on in the lithography. It’s fairly reasonable when you also account for ROI on the engineering process.
Don't forget it's not made here and has cheap labour. It'll probably cost them $60 to make and factoring all the excessive charges here inc tax .. like beer.
Yeah I paid about the same, possibly more? At least got a 3080 around same time for $1400. Win some lose some.
Damnit just bought not long ago.
Down side is "Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months." as delivery indicate.
Mine says 25 Feb. Probably too many orders.
getting mine on Thursday ;)
I have a 5800x now and I was waiting on a good deal for a 5950x… how much do you guys think a good deal on a 5950x will be over the next couple of months?
Ordered for $469, using $100 Amazon promo credit from Quest 2 deal a few months ago, not too bad of a deal I think
Nice
Damn, looks like I got in just in time, back up to 739 now after I ordered
Damn price back up to $739. Nice find!
Back to $739
Showing $735.00 for me now.
Looking forward to the 5600x at $299. It will be a strong competitor to 12400f.
Damn great price for those who got one 👏🏻
while I was looking for the 6500XT
Shame on you ;-p
Haha 6500xt was for my friend's build
Good lord. With a friend like you, who needs enemy? XD
enjoy the upvote, 5600x, here plenty for me!
and now the chip shortages begin :D
Getting closer.
I'll take it seriously once it gets under the $500 mark - which if the stories of a Q2 Zen 4 launch are true, shouldn't be too far away. Should fit into the existing MB, then update the MB, memory,PSU, etc. for Zen 5.
It'll be removed from sale before it hits sub $500, you might find a used one on Facebook marketplace or something though.
They are still selling the 3900x - the tendency is for the price to drip as the new hotness comes forward (doubly this time with AM5), then climb a bit again later as stocks decline.
And a sub $500 price is really more than this chip should cost anyway.
Price mistake?
At OP is it worth upgrading from a 3900x? same cores and threads maybe the TDP is lower would there be much of a performance increase, I have the 3950x and previously the 3900x, wonder if the new fans on the 5900x are less of a hair dryer noise comparison, yes they were certainly very noisey and the constant throttling was annoying (unless mine was faulty??, I doubt) anyway went straight into water cooling
Great price while it lasted, but gonna need an explanation for why you're pairing a 5900X with a 6500 XT?
Why which one is an over kill?, I'm guessing the 5900x
Uber 1080p build for fps gaming
If I got one, I would be pairing it with a 7570.
No, I'm not joking.
I was looking for the 6500XT for my friend.
I'm using 2080Ti :)
damn thats even cheaper than the newegg buy with crypto deal…..that price would have tempted me to buy another
Wow this is cheap - cheaper than my 5800x i bought last year!
Wish AMD GPU prices can have bargains just like their CPUs
Phew glad I saw this one too late, I just saved 569 bucks…
Certainly same here, temptation is a b***h
Did anyone get a screenshot of the deal or has a receipt? Want to claim price protection
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Does 28 degrees accept camcamelcamel links as proof for price protection?
No idea but its interesting it didnt capture it
Absolute Legend, thanks mate
thank you, any chance you can post (or PM) the receipt please? feel free to redact details like name,address, payment info and order number.
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nice! cheap BBQ
So glad I missed this deal so I couldnt get tempted and try convince myself to upgrade the 5600x haha
Same here with a 3700x, I totally don't need it.
What a deal, my 5900x was so much more and it seemed like a good deal at the time
Deal of the year. I paid $1000 for this at launch and very happy as it's my first high end CPU in over 10 years.
If you don't already have a AM4 board this is a dead end option as there are no more CPU's being released.
For the price paired with a decent GPU I doubt waiting for AM5 (Zen 4) is worthwhile unless you need the upgradability path.
I have this paried with a RTX 3090 and don't expect to upgrade/buy a new gaming PC for 5-6 years
5900x should be good for 5+ years easily.
RTX 3090 is going to age poorly, next generation is meant to offer ~80% more performance (rumoured 100%+ for AMD) over the current offerings. If you're not mining with it, I'd think about selling it.
Wow, that's a big performance boost though how true is it? or just rumors?, any links were you found out about this, may I ask?
My thoughts exactly. This sounds way too much of a gain.
I'd like to know more, too, please.
Thank you
@DigSpider: 80% more performance and if they kept the prices low on release for the RTX 4000 series then would dramatically lower the current prices of all cards, but one would think if these new cards perform super high over everything else is true then prices would be super high also
@Italkdigital: Exactly. There's no way in hell the VGA manufacturers will just take a hit and drop their prices on the new ones.
I reckon that assuming that such exaggerated claims are true, then they'll just price it as such (say, 3500-4000 for a 4080) and happy days.
I'd still like to know more about these claims, though. 80% gain is unheard of for the past 3-4 gens, perhaps.
@DigSpider: The past 3-4 gens have had no meaningful competition. Nvidia controlled the market supply and set prices.
Intel basically re-released the same CPU for a decade until AMD came in with their chiplet design and forced them to do better. Well, AMD are doing the same thing to GPUs with RDNA3.
I don't see how that is possible. They could switch manufacturing from Samsung 8nm to TSMC 5mm, to gain ~ 30% (optimistically).
The underlying design of their GPU hasn't changed in a decade, they just keep getting bigger.
They might be thinking of a 2x size card at the top of the product stack, but the rest of the lineup that is actually affordable will not have that kind of performance
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. We're about to hit the limit on how small wafers can get and it's either back to the "good old" 590 days where they simply doubled up the GPUs in a single card or maybe they have a miracle technology that only @isseyou1312 knows of.
I'm very curious, though.
There's been a ~50% increase in transistor density from Pascal to Ampere. Moving from Ampere to Lovelace will be a ~300% jump.
Ngreedia is now competing with AMD, they can now no longer afford using cheap silicon processes and leave lots of performance on the table. Plus AMD have completely redesigned their RDNA3 GPUs into chiplets, so there's also massive potential there.
@iseeyou1312: I agree with everything you just said.
Yet, I haven't seen any official indicators that an 80% increase would be had in the next gen of GPUs.
Although I agree that NVIDIA have been very lazy (like Intel), the latest AMD graphics cards have proven to not be optimized for games as much as NVIDIA and NVIDIA cards sadly still take the cake when it comes to performance for price.
I'd really love to know more, so if you have some official (or believable rumors would help, too) links, please share with us.
I'm sure it'll make everyone's day when they see that there's a big chance that we may actually get a chance at paying fair prices for graphics cards this year (I'm not holding my breath).
Thanks again
@DigSpider: AMD cards will never be as optimised for games as Nvidia. Nvidia has 80% market share, practically a monopoly, and they invest heavily in tools and support for game engine design. I have more hope that Intel will become a real competitor than AMD, they just don't seem to have the resources required to compete
Not convinced I believe the 80% rumours frankly. They're probably cherry picked. It's not in nvidias interest to do so when they can't stop selling cards right now.
It would be mean, but wise, to just milk people as long as possible.
25%? Sure? Maybe 40%
80%? It'll be one edge case benchmark - like 480p with extra hardcore HDR raytrace mode or something. Doom Eternal will be 35% better.
Damn gone before you could even find it
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