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Ryzen 3300X - not as popular as I expected

Masterdog

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Hi all,

After a long time away from the hardware side of things, I've decided to upgrade my machine with a new CPU, mobo, RAM, and GPU. A few months ago I was starting to think about it, and that's when all the articles and previews about the 3300X were coming out. Without exception all of them seemed to be saying that at the lower end (which is where I'll be - my budget is around £600-£700 for the lot) the 3300X was going to trounce everything else and you'd have no reason to even think about buying anything else.

Fast forward to now and the 3300X is out and I've started to look through some other people's spec threads with a similar budget to me to get some ideas. I haven't actually seen one yet that goes with the 3300X, most people seem to be going with the 3600.

Did the 3300X not turn out to be as good as was promised, or is it positioned even more to the budget end than I'm looking, or was I just a victim of the hype machine?

Thanks!

MD
 
Well tbh pricing seems abit steep for the quad core CPU.. A lot of people have reviewed the 3100 and said that would be a better choice for the lower budget builds...

For an extra give or take £10 you can get the Ryzen 3600, you get the extra core count which has a decent performance boost over the 3300x, seems silly to choose the 3300x out of the two
 
The 3300X is just poorly priced, I think it was hovering between £140-150 on OCUK, at that price you might as well just get the 3600.

The 3300X should be £100 max in my opinion, it was supposed to replace the 1600 AF as AMD's budget king yet it's £50-60 more expensive than the RRP of that chip. Honestly I'd still take a 1600AF or 2600 over the 3300X as they'll almost certainly age better.
 
If it was £110-115 it would be worth going for but at £150 it's just to close to the 3600 to be worth considering.
 
it's the fps lows people don't like, 6 cores + simply doesn't get as many bad lows in those games which can benefit from more cores

People don't look at the fps now they look at 0.01% lows
 
Indeed price is the critical factor right now.

The 3300X is a great CPU... at £110-120 max. At £150.... yeah, no.

3100 at £100 is a great deal though if you are building a budget gaming system and not worried about losing on the small difference to the 3300x (once paired with a sensible GPU and not a 2080Ti at 1080p..).
 
Yep, the price is the problem. It was available for £115 pre-launch and at that price just about made sense, but it shot up after all the positive reviews (and I'm sure constrained supply thanks to world events). Looking right now, OcUK seems to be one of the few places to actually have it in stock and that's because they're asking £150 for it, which is nuts. The 3600 can be had for a fiver more and is a much more future-proof chip.
 
I was thinking of getting one for a second PC (I have a 3600X in my main PC)
Instead, I might get a 3700X for my main PC and move the 3600X into the second PC.
 
The 3300x is £119 at several places in the UK, just search.

I just ordered one locally to tide me over until Zen3... for the overall performance, especially gaming, it seems like a bargain. :)
 
Richdog said:
The 3300x is £119 at several places in the UK, just search.

I just ordered one locally to tide me over until Zen3... for the overall performance, especially gaming, it seems like a bargain. :)
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Thanks, I might just get one now - I was originally going to wait as the motherboards aren't shipping yet.
 
If you look on Caseking website, the parent company of OcUK, it's only around £116 to buy a 3300x.

Basically OcUK monopolised it, being the only place with stock in the UK and has been since launch, thus taking the urine and charging whatever they like.
 
oweneades said:
3100 at £100 is a great deal though if you are building a budget gaming system and not worried about losing on the small difference to the 3300x (once paired with a sensible GPU and not a 2080Ti at 1080p..).
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Going to get the 3100 to go with a cheap Bgrade rx580 I picked up for a budget rig I'm building for a family member shortly.
 
Grim5 said:
4 core cpus are very dated now even just for work they're slow
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Quad cores are slow for general productivity tasks... what? Where do people come up with this stuff. :D

High speed quad cores with seeing IPC still perform fine for the majority of things, from productivity to gaming.
 
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