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ryzen price drops?

Which one would you guys say is the optimum performance vs price vs reduction?

1700 - was £279 now £260 (6% reduction, £19)
1700X - was £330 now £290 (12% reduction, £40)
1800X - was £429 now £340 (20% reduction, £90)
 
Now the price gap has narrowed can someone please tell me what the advantage of the 1800x over the 1700. Assuming I will be overclocking on an AIO.
 
beany_bot said:
Now the price gap has narrowed can someone please tell me what the advantage of the 1800x over the 1700. Assuming I will be overclocking on an AIO.
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Don't need to do anything with the 1800X as it'll clock itself providing cooling is good, the 1700 you'll need to manually clock to 3.9 which took all of 30 seconds to do.
 
Glanza said:
Don't need to do anything with the 1800X as it'll clock itself providing cooling is good, the 1700 you'll need to manually clock to 3.9 which took all of 30 seconds to do.
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So there really is no difference other than that? I was confused because "technical" sites like gamers nexus are recommending the 1800x now that prices have come down. But surely Steve knows that a simple overclock (which 90% of his audience will do) will make the 1700 a much better option.
 
beany_bot said:
So there really is no difference other than that? I was confused because "technical" sites like gamers nexus are recommending the 1800x now that prices have come down. But surely Steve knows that a simple overclock (which 90% of his audience will do) will make the 1700 a much better option.
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The 1800X *might* be better silicon, might use a few less watts and might be a touch cooler, plus it might clock ~100MHz higher with a good board. Might. The 1700X is the better buy IMO, spend the extra on outrageous RAM prices instead :(
 
d_brennen said:
The 1800X *might* be better silicon, might use a few less watts and might be a touch cooler, plus it might clock ~100MHz higher with a good board. Might. The 1700X is the better buy IMO, spend the extra on outrageous RAM prices instead :(
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I thought there was difference between 1700 and 1700x if overclocking?
P.S. this is all hypothetical as I think im waiting for Ryzen 2 and lower RAM prices.
 
Drizmod said:
and I just bought the 1600 yesterday for £180 plus and now its on for £164 :-/ Can I get a retrospective discount?
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Well I got a refund for the price difference this morning. Great job OCUK. Will be recommending you guys to other people that want to build PCs.
 
beany_bot said:
So there really is no difference other than that? I was confused because "technical" sites like gamers nexus are recommending the 1800x now that prices have come down. But surely Steve knows that a simple overclock (which 90% of his audience will do) will make the 1700 a much better option.
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The 1800X are supposedly better silicon and you don't need to do any manual clocking. If you don't mind doing your own overclock than save money and get the 1700.
 
DragonQ said:
Yep, lowest it's ever been on that website at least. Is it even worth overclocking an R7 1800X? Seems to me that you'd be paying a small premium over the R7 1700 in return for not having to mess with the clocks.
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From what I can see it seems the most you can push it to is 4.1 in most instances if you can even get that.

Basically I’m not intending on clocking the chip so that gives more of a guarantee on what I’m getting rather than there being a chance I can get to it with a 1700x which with the deal currently on is actually roughly £2 more expensive which is crazy.
 
dont know whether to upgrade or not. i currently have an i5 which isnt overclocked and 16gb ddr4 3200 which is running at 2133 because it (or maybe the board, or maybe the i5's memory controller) was unstable at its rated speed.

the ryzen 1800x seems a great price but id also have to spend c.£140 to £200 on a new board.
 
danlightbulb said:
dont know whether to upgrade or not. i currently have an i5 which isnt overclocked and 16gb ddr4 3200 which is running at 2133 because it (or maybe the board, or maybe the i5's memory controller) was unstable at its rated speed.

the ryzen 1800x seems a great price but id also have to spend c.£140 to £200 on a new board.
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Got the 1700, its the same chip just lower clocked, clock it up to the same speed (it will do that at least) and you have an 1800X for £80 less.
 
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