AMD’s sometimes-fastest gaming CPU has hit a new affordability milestone.
AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D processors are now available (in theory), so we’re seeing some big discounts on previously-released options that bring them into newfound relevance. Such is the case with the Ryzen 7 7700X, the middle child of the Zen 4 lineup and an absolutely beastly performer when it comes to gaming thanks to its full-fat eight-core, one-CCD design. This chip launched at $399 but is now $100 cheaper thanks to a discount code at Newegg, where you can pick up the 7700X for $298.99 when you use codeBTSCP2655at the checkout.
That makes the 7700X the best value Ryzen 7000 processor for gaming by a good margin, and even with the release of the 7900X3D and 7950X3D that remains true.
Elsewhere, it’s a good mid-range processor for daily tasks, whether that’s programming, content creation or something else. Eight cores and sixteen threads is sufficient for most tasks, and the excellent single-core speed that Ryzen provides will speed up the majority of thread-naive workloads. The chip is also cool and efficient, thanks to the 5nm process used, and doesn’t require a massive cooler, super-fast RAM or high-end motherboard to work well.
In any case, $298.99 is a great price for this level of hardware, and if you can find some cheap DDR5 RAM (ideally DDR5-6000 but DDR5-4800 is fine) and a cheap X670/B650 motherboard, you could be on to a super-fast and reasonably future-proof system.
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