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OcUK Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X review thread

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Quad Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £113.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3c0-am.html


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AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Quad Core 3.9GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £94.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3c1-am.html


100-100000284BOX, 4 Core with 8 Threads, 3.90GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 18MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty
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Stock due next week! :)
 
Gibbo said:
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Quad Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £113.99 inc VAT


100-100000159BOX, 4 Core with 8 Threads, 4.30GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 18MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty
Only £113.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW




AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Quad Core 3.9GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £94.99 inc VAT


100-100000284BOX, 4 Core with 8 Threads, 3.90GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 18MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty
Only £94.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW



Stock due next week! :)
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Good price for a little beasty. :)
 
Makes me wonder if I should downgrade from a 3700X to a 3300X and pocket the savings? But then may I regret it in the next year and find the extra cores are worth it. (I play at 1440P /4K (mainly 4k))
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Well if you are on a B450 motherboard,you don't have much of a choice now!! :p
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If you refer to the WCCFTECH article, that could be true for the B350 and B450 boards without large bios. Cases like B450 Tomahawk/Carbon MAX having big bios, might not been an issue. The article states that AMD officially will only support 550 & 570 however if motherboard manufacturers can install the new Zen 3 bios to their existing boards, they will work also. :)

Is on the small prints at the end of the article :P And WCCFTech run a similar story last year, that B450/350 X470/370 boards won't support Zen 2 because a guy who said was working for MSI said so.......
 
Just when you thought 4 core CPUs were pretty much obsolete along comes the 3300X to resurrect them lol.

This 3300X certainly makes the 1600AF and an 2600(X) an much harder buy now.

Think I would be inclined to just pony up the extra cash and just go straight to the 3600 since they are around the £150ish mark now or wait for Zen 3.

@willhub
I wouldn't do that personally, the 3700X is probably where you want to be going forward.
 
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Mark1989 said:
I'm struggling to see where these fit in? If anything I'd say 6 core is min now any one should be buying
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Why?

If looking for future proofing for gaming, then ideally you need to look at 8 core/16 thread as a minimum as that is what PS5/XBox will have.

These are still a great budget option though - how many games currently use more than 8 threads?

Still a cheap way onto the AM4 platform, whilst still maintaining the option to drop in an 8/12/16 core processor later if required.
 
Armageus said:
Why?

If looking for future proofing for gaming, then ideally you need to look at 8 core/16 thread as a minimum as that is what PS5/XBox will have.

These are still a great budget option though - how many games currently use more than 8 threads?

Still a cheap way onto the AM4 platform, whilst still maintaining the option to drop in an 8/12/16 core processor later if required.
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I get that but consol games are always optimized due to fixed hardware.

Doesn't mean a pc port will be regardless of users having same or similar CPU to the PS5/XSX

I dunno I just see 4 core chips as pointless these days but that's just imo
 
People are gaming perfectly fine on a 3770K (Not that I would want to), while obviously I wouldn't recommend the 3100 as an upgrade, as an entry level CPU the 3100 is pretty brilliant, and would service entry level gaming with a discrete GPU, as well as many base systems (Although moreso when there's an APU)
 
Things change I've changed said:
Just came on here to say the exact same thing, no doubt the 3300x has good performance for the price, but I wouldn't want to be grabbing a 4 core chip today.
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The 7700K sells for 200 to £300 used, even older Intel quads still sell for £100+ used.

Huge numbers of people still think Hyper Threaded quads are good.

AMD are happy to oblige them for around the £100 mark, its why AMD want Reviewers to make a point of comparing them to the 7700K.....
 
Armageus said:
Lol just checked prices of 2600K and 2700K chips... 2700K are still more than a 3300X will be :D
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Yeah... ridiculous, isn't it? Its because once not so long ago those quads were the best money could buy on the mainstream, a lot of people just don't see that as we do, stagnation.

They are still perfectly good gaming CPU's with lower midrange GPU's, 1660Ti level and there are a lot of people in that category looking for capable CPU's to drive those GPU's at around £100. Smart move on AMD's part... These things will sell in huge numbers, i think they learned that from the 1600AF.
 
Lots of games are lightly threaded and are latency dependent,and the Ryzen 3 3300X looks ideal for this,and if you wait for a B550 motherboard at least you can drop in a better Zen3 CPU,as AMD has stated it will work in it(so they can't get away with what they they did with the B450).

Panos said:
If you refer to the WCCFTECH article, that could be true for the B350 and B450 boards without large bios. Cases like B450 Tomahawk/Carbon MAX having big bios, might not been an issue. The article states that AMD officially will only support 550 & 570 however if motherboard manufacturers can install the new Zen 3 bios to their existing boards, they will work also. :)

Is on the small prints at the end of the article :p And WCCFTech run a similar story last year, that B450/350 X470/370 boards won't support Zen 2 because a guy who said was working for MSI said so.......
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I hope you are right. HUB said AMD actually unofficially added back B350 support for Zen2,but are refusing to do so now! :(
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Looking at the reviews the 3300x is keeping up with the big boys with a 2080ti. Great budget option.
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Yes great performance for a budget CPU.

It does lag a little bit behind the big boys, but it is certainly up there and good enough (at least for now).
But I'm more interested in 5700/5700XT and 2060S/2070S benchmarks using the 3300X, as that is an more realistic cost point pairing.
Plus they should throw something CPU intensive at it like The Ashes of the Singularity and see how it handles it.
 
@CAT-THE-FIFTH I think Motherboard vendors got more than a little annoyed with AMD forcing them to support boards that would be 4 years old at the point of fourth generation Ryzen.

Far more people either stuck with their old board for Zen 2 or bought 400 series boards than bought 500 series boards, which is bad news for those vendors bottom line....
 
The Old School Gamer said:
Yes great performance for a budget CPU.

It does lag a little bit behind the big boys, but it is certainly up there and good enough (at least for now).
But I'm more interested in 5700/5700XT and 2060S/2070S benchmarks using the 3300X, as that is an more realistic cost point pairing.
Plus they should throw something CPU intensive at it like The Ashes of the Singularity and see how it handles it.
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Bitwit’s video compares 3100, 3300X and 1600AF paired with both the 2060 and 2070S.
 
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