A great price for a fast processor that works with inexpensive DDR4 RAM and AM4 motherboards.
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors are brilliant, often beating Intel 12th-gen offerings and drawing close with 13th-gen, while offering support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs, DDR5 RAM and a brand new AM5 socket. For content creation, they’re by far the best CPUs AMD has ever produced - but for gaming, there is another option: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. This CPU remains stunningly fast in some games that can take advantage of its uniquely huge L3 cache, and best of all works with a wide range of inexpensive AM4 motherboards with cheap DDR4 RAM.
Pound for pound, it’s by far the best AMD CPU for gaming on the market - and now it’s been reduced to just $329 at Antonline via Ebay. That’s a healthy $120 reduction from its US MSRP of $449, and a great price overall given the level of gaming performance it provides.
Note that in terms of content creation performance, you don’t tend to see a benefit from the extra-large L3 cache. Instead, you actually get slightly worse performance than the 5800X, as the chip runs at a lower clock speed to make up for the extra space used for the vertically-stacked cache. That means a vanilla Ryzen 5000 (or Ryzen 7000!) processor remains the superior choice for most all-core workloads like transcoding video, rendering 3D scenes or compiling code.
Anyway, getting the Ryzen 5800X3D for $329 is one heck of a deal, and would form the basis of an excellent value gaming system when paired with a B550 or X570 motherboard, DDR4-3200 to DDR4-3600 RAM and astrong graphics card.
What do you think of this deal? Let me know in the comments below - and don’t worry, I’ll share any UK deals on the 5800X3D if I find any!
