AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core CPU + ASRock X370 Killer SLI/ac ATX Motherboard (combo) $240.98 @ Newegg

[VirtualLarry]

AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core CPU + ASRock X370 Killer SLI/ac ATX Motherboard

Are you a human?

www.newegg.com

$240.98

I've had my eyes on this combo for a few days now, but Newegg just dropped the price of the mobo from $109.99 to $99.99, so the price of the combo came down too!

This seems like quite a decent deal on a decent board, and a really decent CPU.

NOTE CAREFULLY - you will need a 1st-gen Ryzen CPU to FLASH THE BIOS/UEFI of the board BEFORE you can use it with the 3600!

Edit: ASRock X470 TaiChi Ultimate (with the 10GbE-T AQuantia chipset onboard!), is on sale @ Newegg for $80 off, $219.99 as well, though not with a combo with anything. Just for consideration as well. (A standalone 10GbE-T PCI-E x4 card will cost you $100+ anyways.)

 

[Shmee]

Pretty nice, but in a way I feel it's kinda shady to bundle a first gen board without a new BIOS with a 3rd gen chip, and not even warn users. Who knows, if people are lucky it will be newer stock with Ryzen 3k support out of the box.

 

[VirtualLarry]

To be sure, "Matisse" IS supported on this board... but you have to find a way to shoe-horn the newest BIOS on there FIRST, which basically means, booting and flashing with a 1st-Gen Ryzen CPU. Which may be too much of a PITA for some people. (Especially people that are first-time builders, and may not keep a stock of older CPUs around like I do.)