New AMD CPUs now available

[floppybootstomp]

The new AMD '3' series of Ryzen CPU's are out now, Novatech are stocking them and I expect others are. Cheapest is £202 at Novatech, a 3.6Ghz 6 core.

There seems to be a shortage of MSI 570 chipset boards, hope that doesn't last.

I priced up a replacement system - CPU; Motherboard; 16Gb 3000 Memory; 256Gb NVME drive - about 3 weeks ago but decided to wait for these new chips to be on the market and surprise surprise - SSDs and memory have both risen in price which just happens to coincide with the launch of the new AMD CPUs. Who me? Cynical?

 

[Ian]

I'm likely going to get one of these in the coming months, once things settle down a bit. I hope it's a big improvement over my 3570k, I expect it should be!

Hopefully SSD and Memory prices will drop in that time too .

Which of the new chips are you going for?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Which of the new chips are you going for?

The cheapest, the 3600. I won't be using this machine for any of the latest games and will keep on using the rest of the system which includes a 2Gb GTX1050. It will replace an Intel 4 core 2600K i7 3.4Ghz.

Motherboard (MSI); 16Gb RAM; CPU/Wraith Cooler and 256Gb NVME M.2 drive comes to £517 inc postage from Novatech, have yet to try elsewhere for prices.