AMD Ryzen 5 3500X / 3900 (non-x) ???

[The Old School Gamer]

6 Core / 6 Thread
3Mb L2 Cache
32Mb L3 Cache
65w TDP

Essentially an 3600 but with SMT disabled.

The main reason it is interesting is because it's cheaper than the 3600 (£129 appox)
But it also appears to have better minimum frame rates in many of the gaming benchmarks.

The only problem is availability.
It's not officially available in the UK, it has to be imported.

What do you guy's reckon?
New budget gaming CPU king?

 

[keylion]

As you say the problem is availability and as a China only oem product by the time you get it here you would probably have been better off buying the 3600. A bit of a shame though as it would have been a good budget offering at the price.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Yup sucks.
£152 shipped, £34 import charges = £186

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Yup sucks.
£152 shipped, £34 import charges = £186

Is that from the usa? I have never paid a charge for a China item

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Just seen on google you can get them for £95. That's an amazing cpu.
I would like to see how it performs vs my 9400f

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Direct from Shenzhen.

Last thing I ordered from China was held by customs, I had to pay the import duty before they would release it.

 

[wazza300]

No multithreading though

 

[MaXxBoulton]

No multithreading though

that was mentioned in the first post

Direct from Shenzhen.
Last thing I ordered from China was held by customs, I had to pay the import duty before they would release it.

it could be a value thing, most stuff i get from china is under £50

 

[The Old School Gamer]

No multithreading though

Nope, but still, does not appear to impact gaming performance by much looking at the benchmarks.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Nope, but still, does not appear to impact gaming performance by much looking at the benchmarks.

it is shown that games like cores and not just threads, thats why the 9700k is better than 9900k for games

just watch the video and it nice the see mt 9440f killing it, when i got the i5 i was told i was stupid, it was cheaper than the 3600, but i was told the 3600 will kill it easy.

 

[wazza300]

True im just saying,for £70 more you can get the 3600 which is more futureproof tbh

It is tempting though if all you do is game

 

[MaXxBoulton]

True im just saying,for £70 more you can get the 3600 which is more futureproof tbh

It is tempting though if all you do is game

at the price right now its £85 more for a 3600.. that close the double
the 9400f is also £50 cheaper than a 3600

 

[Journey]

If you are buying the CPU on its own, OEM style they are shipped in small boxes or very small padded envelopes with a pin protector fitted. Small chance of it being caught at customs. Last processor I bought they'd listed it as spare parts, with a $21 value I didn't ask btw.

 

[wazza300]

So is this chip worth it then? Idk im abit out of touch with ryzen

If you pick standard delivery,customs dont usually check,its only if you have it signed for or through dpd

 

[Journey]

So is this chip worth it then? Idk im abit out of touch with ryzen

If you pick standard delivery,customs dont usually check,its only if you have it signed for or through dpd

It is the best value CPU, that you cannot buy under £150.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

It is the best value CPU, that you cannot buy under £150.

you can buy it for £93
AMD should bring it to the UK that would be a game changer

 

[Gibbo]

you can buy it for £93
AMD should bring it to the UK that would be a game changer

I could bring some in but we were an AMD partner they’d not want us selling it.

 

[Journey]

I could bring some in but we were an AMD partner they’d not want us selling it.

You should appeal to your rep from AMD.

I think we all know why they don't want it in the UK, it is too cheap for what it offers, and will drive sales away from the R5 3600, and the cheaper to build R5 2600/X. Yet it would put the final nail in the coffin for Intel at the budget end <£150, but the R5 2600/X almost do that now.

I think that AMD need to at least consider allowing it in OEM builds, or SI builds in the UK. I'm pretty sure there are already a few I have seen with it in, but they could be using imported grey stock.

It's a strange place to be in for AMD, and the consumer. Import a CPU for ~£90 that performs almost as well as one at ~£180, or just suck it up and use £90 of your budget that could have been going towards a better GPU and/or nice big NVMe SSD etc.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

i would have never got the 9400f if the 3500x was in the UK.

I could bring some in but we were an AMD partner they’d not want us selling it.

i can understand why, for the ruff price is £90-£110(this is the china price's) it offers why too much

 

[Deleted member 209350]

I dont think chips without SMT should exist in this day and age tbh