3500x new budget cpu king

vjhawk

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The 3500x beats Intel's 9400F in terms of pricing, matches it in performance, and has an actual upgrade path being higher zen 2 chips in the same product line.



Available for under $120 on Aliexpress. The 9400F retails for $160 on Newegg.

PS This also makes the 2600 irrelevant which is probably why it is sold only on Aliexpress.
Once 2600 stock is sold out, I expect the 3500x to be sold mainstream.

Is there any reason to pick Intel anymore?

Ooops put this in wrong forum. Please delete. I'm gonna post this in AMD forum instead.
 
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I am very happy AMD is back and doing well, but I am very happy with my 9600K build even at stock. I don't think Ryzen 2 is all that much better for games (the reason I have a PC), and I still have an upgrade path to 8 cores and 16 threads if needed. Not to mention more all core clock speed with little effort before that. As far as pricing, the CPU/Z390 was $279, RAM was $63, and SSD was $82.
 
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Looking at bench’s.
Can’t got wrong for gaming.Within a handful of FPS to any Ryzen.
 
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