A lot of good stuff for a very reasonable price.
The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a good gaming CPU with better content creation performance than the more expensive 5800X3D - even though it’s slower than the X3D in gaming. Still, at its price point it hits a punch, and the boffins at HUKD have spotted a good deal for the 5800X at CCL. There, you can find the 5800X for £235 when you use codeAFF15with some nifty extras: a 64GB Micro SD card and a code forUncharted: Legacy of Thieves.
The way it works is pretty simple - you need to get your total basket over £250 for the AFF15 code to work. So, pick anything on the store that’s more than £5.51, likethis Micro SD card, add it to your basket alongside the 5800X, then use the AFF15 code to bring the price down to the £235 we quoted. The game code will come with your order, no opt-in necessary, from what we understand.
So: why consider the 5800X? I think I’ve previously taken a decent stab at answering that question, so I’ll turn it over to Past Will. Here we go:
In terms of performance, the 5800X delivers around 80% of the performance of the 7700X in some CPU-limited scenarios (eg gaming at 1080p with a good GPU), and much less when the GPU load is higher - either when you’re gaming at a higher resolution or when you have a less powerful GPU then the 3090 I used for my testing.
So: £235 is an awesome price for a high-end CPU, and should leave a decent amount in your budget for a great graphics card that will contribute far more to overall gaming performance - especially as AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM are much cheaper than their next-gen counterparts.
