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AMD Ryzen 5800XT Now $125 (Dead)

Damn! the deals always come when I just can't upgrade yet! I bought a 1600 combo for the sole purpose of upgrading, and I still have like a month to go before pulling the trigger on a cpu. :cry:
 
Picked this up to replace a R5-3600, and maybe use that 3600 for a kids PC if I can find a cheap board for it.

Haswellbeast said:
Now it's $125 at my local microcenter... Wonderful.
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5700X is $105... Debating if it's worth just getting that instead of 5800XT...
 
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qwertyaas said:
Picked this up to replace a R5-3600, and maybe use that 3600 for a kids PC if I can find a cheap board for it.



5700X is $105... Debating if it's worth just getting that instead of 5800XT...
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The 5700x doesn't come with a cooler while the 5800xt has the wraith prism if that makes any difference to you.
 
The 5800XT is a better binned chip so it should undervolt better than a 5700X. I'd rather lose an imperceivable amount of performance to keep it running cooler without having to resort to running the cooler in hurricane mode.

Well, if it was for me, I'd put a waterblock on it and let er eat. That's not within the theme of a budget build though.
 
Fluxmaven said:
The 5800XT is a better binned chip so it should undervolt better than a 5700X. I'd rather lose an imperceivable amount of performance to keep it running cooler without having to resort to running the cooler in hurricane mode.

Well, if it was for me, I'd put a waterblock on it and let er eat. That's not within the theme of a budget build though.
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I hear that the 5800xt can undervolt really well while GAINING performance, it's that well matured and binned
 
Price actually went down a bit before checking out - $125!

$80 1600af to $100 5700g (marketplace) to this $125 '5800af' minus the sale of the first 2 cpus.

I'd say I did rather well.
 
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Right now, Zen 3 (5 year old CPU, nearly 10 year old platform) has more cpus on Amazon top 10 than all of Intel combined.

Definitely a rare model for those trying to get on CPU specific overclocking record boards. Less than 1% of what the 5800x has sold.
 
qwertyaas said:
They are hard to find lately; and if you do it's 2-3X this price.

Missed the Aliexpress boat months ago. So this could be a stopgap from 3600 -> 5800XT until I jump to next full upgrade.
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agree but at that point with prices coming down I would just spend a bit more and goto AM5
 
Decent b650 boards are under 150 especially used now. 7600x or 7500 for 150ish. 32g ram for 70-80. Sell the am4 cpu mobo ram for 150-200, pay another 250-300 for AM5. Thats the play now imo. I love Am4 but even the cheap 6 core AM5 chips are close enough to the x3D am4 CPUs that are getting rare and expensive. The deals on those were a year ago almost.

That or give your am4 stuff to your kids and blow $700 on a 9800x3d setup. Follow me for more financial advice.. :D
 
Vengance_01 said:
agree but at that point with prices coming down I would just spend a bit more and goto AM5
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True, but prolonging AM4 for a couple years with a net of $60-70 isn't a bad deal after selling the 3600.

I'm not itching to fully upgrade and if I did, I'd just move AM4 to the kids.
 
TheHig said:
Decent b650 boards are under 150 especially used now. 7600x or 7500 for 150ish. 32g ram for 70-80. Sell the am4 cpu mobo ram for 150-200, pay another 250-300 for AM5. Thats the play now imo. I love Am4 but even the cheap 6 core AM5 chips are close enough to the x3D am4 CPUs that are getting rare and expensive. The deals on those were a year ago almost.

That or give your am4 stuff to your kids and blow $700 on a 9800x3d setup. Follow me for more financial advice.. :D
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Don't make me start thinking of that. But honestly if i go for AM5, my AM4 is going to the kids so I'd rather just prolong my AM4 for now 🤣
 
Vengance_01 said:
I would try and find a 5700x3d as the only AM4 chip to buy. otherwise time to move onto am5
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Original plan to maximize life of my AM4 but just couldnt pass this deal up.

Honestly, the 5800xt will not be a bottleneck for the gpus I run for a long time and its nice having the extra non-gaming grunt over the 5700x3d.
 
No matter how you slice it, going up to AM5 is going to be a lot more expensive than dropping one of these 5800XT's into an existing build. Obviously on an enthusiast site it's pretty normal to see people drop thousands on rigs and updating frequently. That doesn't mean that some people just need a bit of an upgrade to keep on truckin with what they have.

Building a new rig from scratch is where AM5 makes a lot more sense.
 
Vengance_01 said:
if your on a 2xxx or 3xxx it's worth it
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I am very tempted. I bought a B550 ITX board to reuse a 1700x with the intent of upgrading to a 5700X3D. Now that those are so expensive, the 5800XT is so very tempting.
 
Tsumi said:
I am very tempted. I bought a B550 ITX board to reuse a 1700x with the intent of upgrading to a 5700X3D. Now that those are so expensive, the 5800XT is so very tempting.
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The lower cache parts respond better ti memory iverclocking than the x3d parts, so if you have good memory and board and can get close to 2000 fclock, you would be sitting very good
 
OKC Yeakey Trentadue said:
The lower cache parts respond better ti memory iverclocking than the x3d parts, so if you have good memory and board and can get close to 2000 fclock, you would be sitting very good
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Not sure what memory I have but it was on the cheap side. This was a budget build using spare parts to see if a travel ITX gaming build was viable. I do know the 1700X is incapable of running it at its rated speeds though, lol. Tried setting XMP profile and it would not boot.
 
Maxtor said:
I would just save and get a 3d chip
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With the premium that the AM4 X3D chips are commanding on the used market, it makes little sense to get them. You're almost better off selling your current AM4 hardware and getting a 7700x or 9700x build, which will be almost as fast as a 5700/5800X3D in gaming while being faster in everything else as well as having an upgrade path. I'm seeing 5700X3Ds for no less than $200 and 5800X3Ds for nearly $300 on the used market. Heck, even an Intel build would have been better- the i5-12600KF was as low as $109 a few weeks ago and will trade blows with a 5800X3D in gaming, albeit while consuming much more power.
 
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