A tidy Black Friday discount on one of the fastest ever gaming CPUs.
AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X is an awesome gaming processor that also kicks a lot of butt in content creation tasks, but a high asking price means that it’s out of reach of many. However, that is slowly changing, with Black Friday Eve bringing a new low price on the high-end CPU: £475, down from a launch RRP of £600. That’s a tidy £125 discount and a great price for one of the fastest consumer CPUs money can buy.
This is also a neat £25 below the reduced prices thatwe noticed a few days back, which feels good enough to bring up again - but do let me know in the comments if you disagree.
Ryzen 7000 in general and the 7900X in particular is also a big step forward over even Ryzen 5000, which itself was a big advancement over Ryzen 3000… so if you’re coming from an older-gen Ryzen machine, you will see some solid double-digit percentage gains in CPU-limited scenarios, like 1080p high refresh rate gaming or content creation tasks like video transcoding or 3D rendering.
Anyway, this is a great deal, so do consider it - and stay tuned for more Black Friday deals over the next few days, with most of the festitivities on Friday itself but some additional highlights no doubt due to appear on Cyber Monday as well. Cheers!
