AMD's powerful Ryzen 5700X CPU is down to $190 at Ebay

The 5800X’s little brother is a better value.

Another week, another great AMD CPU deal on American Ebay. This time it’s on the Ryzen 7 5700X, a powerful eight-core 16-thread processor with the same basic design of the 5800X - at a significantly lower price. This model debuted at $300, but is now available for just $190 when you buy it from Antonline on Ebay.

In games and content creation benchmarks, that results in an advantage for the 5800X - but it’s literally a few percentage points in pretty much all CPU-limited games at 1080p, and very few games at higher resolutions. That makes the 5700X a no-brainer, especially as this is an unlocked chip that can be overclocked - or more likely undervolted - to easily make up the meagre performance differential.

In short, don’t consider the 5800X if it’s at all more expensive than the 5700X - pick this up instead, and enjoy great performance at a lower cost. Use the extra money in the budget for a better-tier GPU, faster RAM, or anything really!

I hope this advice was helpful! Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more deals.