Ryzen 5 3600 price going up?

[matt_griff]

Somehow i doubt it

Somehow I doubt you are smart either with the amount of rubbish you post.

 

[Vince]

That's not bad if I'm honest, especially if you need the 2 extra cores. But for either a stop gap to zen3 and/or gaming only 3600 is definitely a better buy, if you can get one for 120 to 150 quid, I wonder what the historical lowest price was on a 3700x, I wanted one at in January but I only game, are you planning on upgrading to zen3? I'll probably go 8 cores myself

For a workstation chip the 3600 is no slouch either. It just feels really snappy, I can't explain it but the wifes 12 thread 3600 with 16gb ram and nvme fells snappier in windows and just doing everyday stuff than my 32 thread threadripper machine with 64gb of memory and raid 0 nvmes. It's only when the real work comes in that the threadripper really pulls out a lead. Seriously there really isn't much you need more than a 3600 for 99% of everyday computing. Its the 2500k of today.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Bought a 3600x within a few weeks of launch for £190.

Maybe I should sell and upgrade to the xt

 

[OZONE]

Cheapest I've seen a 3600 (non-X) is £160.

 

[~>Dg<~]

they been down to £150. they are good performance for the money. basically a 8700 non k. which is nearly 3 years old now. tbh the 3600 is actually over priced. also shows you that the 8700k was good value. if you sold the 8700k it would be roughly the same price as one of these new and you could have had it for 3 years already !

with the new stuff coming out should drop down to £120 or there abouts in 6 months.

 

[Doobedoo]

Tell that to Intel they are still selling 8 cores for nearly £400.

 

[Joxeon]

they been down to £150. they are good performance for the money. basically a 8700 non k. which is nearly 3 years old now. tbh the 3600 is actually over priced. also shows you that the 8700k was good value. if you sold the 8700k it would be roughly the same price as one of these new and you could have had it for 3 years already !

with the new stuff coming out should drop down to £120 or there abouts in 6 months.

i7 did launch at around £350 then jumped to around £400 and now you can get that performance for around £150 which is pretty good when considering with GPUs your paying almost the same price for the same performance as 3 years ago.

Tell that to Intel they are still selling 8 cores for nearly £400.

And their new 8700k AKA the 10600k is going for £250.

 

[Doobedoo]

And their new 8700k AKA the 10600k is going for £250.

Yeah I got me 6 and 8 cores mixed up.

To be honest I love my value for money but the cpu space is not the problem, it’s the gpu space that needs sorting. Not going to happen though while so many are happily parting with so much money.

 

[OZONE]

they been down to £150. they are good performance for the money. basically a 8700 non k. which is nearly 3 years old now. tbh the 3600 is actually over priced. also shows you that the 8700k was good value. if you sold the 8700k it would be roughly the same price as one of these new and you could have had it for 3 years already !

with the new stuff coming out should drop down to £120 or there abouts in 6 months.

Besides PPP, is there any other site to check the best possible price?

 

[Doobedoo]

Google it’s rather useful at times.

 

[bris]

On a similar line the Ryzen 7 3700x I want is a massive £51 cheaper elsewhere, thats no small change and as I have to pay £8 delivery too then its £59 more expensive as it's free delivery elsewhere.

 

[BluesFanUK]

Yeh I'd like to purchase one now but refuse to pay the current price for it, AMD will then spring a major discount when the new line launches, and the frustrating thing is they're giving no clear indication of when that is. Even the 2000 series are badly priced too.

 

[LtMatt]

On a similar line the Ryzen 7 3700x I want is a massive £51 cheaper elsewhere, thats no small change and as I have to pay £8 delivery too then its £59 more expensive as it's free delivery elsewhere.

OcuK pricing has got so bad recently.

 

[Joxeon]

It's the nvidia model of high margins low volume, works for them I guess.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

i7 did launch at around £350 then jumped to around £400 and now you can get that performance for around £150 which is pretty good when considering with GPUs your paying almost the same price for the same performance as 3 years ago.



And their new 8700k AKA the 10600k is going for £250.

Really what gpu's are the same price and performance as 3 years ago?

My mate bought a 1080ti for £900 during the peak of the mining craze and I got a 2070 super for £440 a year ago.

So less than half the price for a better gpu.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

i7 did launch at around £350 then jumped to around £400 and now you can get that performance for around £150 which is pretty good when considering with GPUs your paying almost the same price for the same performance as 3 years ago.



And their new 8700k AKA the 10600k is going for £250.

Really what gpu's are the same price and performance as 3 years ago?

My mate bought a 1080ti for £900 during the peak of the mining craze and I got a 2070 super for £440 a year ago.

So less than half the price for a better gpu.

 

[Joxeon]

Really what gpu's are the same price and performance as 3 years ago?

My mate bought a 1080ti for £900 during the peak of the mining craze and I got a 2070 super for £440 a year ago.

So less than half the price for a better gpu.

Rtx 2080 is one when compared to the 1080ti and launch prices
The 5500XT compared to a RX580 are a couple of examples.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Rtx 2080 is one when compared to the 1080ti and launch prices
The 5500XT compared to a RX580 are a couple of examples.

You cannot use launch prices because the 1080ti went up in price and by a huge amount over its lifetime.

It's a pretty poor comparison to do. Gpu prices were never the same again after that huge spike in prices. They went high and stayed high until amd launched the 5700.