[DEAD!] AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU plus 3-pack 32GB SanDisk USB Flash drives $270 at Walmart!

[MisterE]

[DEAD!] - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X With Free 3-Pack 32GB Flash Drives

[THE DEAL IS DEAD!] - Walmart has the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU with a 3-pack of SanDisk Cruzer Snap 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drives for $269.36 + tax with free shipping. That's a pretty awesome deal, the 3700X price has been a bit high for the past few weeks (currently $295 at Amazon and $300 at NewEgg). Delivery only, I think, no in-store pickup. The flash drives are pretty slow.

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[MisterE]

Wow, ordered Friday noon and the CPU was delivered Monday 9am! I don't have all of my parts for the build, there's an NVMe drive scheduled for Wednesday delivery (though I'm hoping for Tuesday).

 

[MisterE]

Back in stock for $270 instead of $265. Still a pretty good deal, $25 cheaper than Amazon and $30 cheaper than NewEgg (plus you get a 3-pack of 32GB USB flash drives).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, is it worth upgrading from a Ryzen R5 3600 to a 3700X, at this price? Even with the 3600 @ $199 or $209, rather than $155, that's still $70 or so more, for only two more cores. Kind of on the fence about this one. For a fresh new build, sure, sounds like a good deal. But with Zen3 dropping later this year, I don't know if it makes sense for an upgrade.

But still, a fairly good deal regardless of my personal circumstances.

 

[MisterE]

Hmm, is it worth upgrading from a Ryzen R5 3600 to a 3700X, at this price? Even with the 3600 @ $199 or $209, rather than $155, that's still $70 or so more, for only two more cores. Kind of on the fence about this one. For a fresh new build, sure, sounds like a good deal. But with Zen3 dropping later this year, I don't know if it makes sense for an upgrade.

But still, a fairly good deal regardless of my personal circumstances.

If you just surf the Internet, do some light gaming, watch YouTube videos, etc., then it probably isn't worth upgrading unless you have a home for the Ryzen 5 3600. If you do a lot of video encoding, or maybe some code compiling, then it might be a worthwhile if moderate bump in performance. I'm upgrading my system from an AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3GHz 4C/4T 95W CPU to Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6GHz 8C/16T 65W CPU, so I'm going to see a massive boost in a lot of things. I encode a lot of video and audio (so I'll see benefit there), but I plan on using my server PC for most of my encoding tasks. That machine has a Ryzen 5 3400G (on a B350 motherboard). It encodes incredibly fast at 3.7GHz 4C/8T, plus a lot of the encoding takes advantage of the hardware decode / encode ability of the built-in video via DXVA2.

 

[VirtualLarry]

unless you have a home for the Ryzen 5 3600.

Oh, that... Hmm, I do! I have a third PC with a Ryzen R5 1600 "AE" that could stand to be upgraded.

I do DC and mining on my PC, among other things (besides browsing / YT / Skype), so the extra two cores / four threads would be appreciated, somewhat. Still, I hesitate because the performance/$ seems less than my 3600 was. ($200 for 6C/12T, $270 for 8C/16T?)

Still on the fence.

 

[MisterE]

Oh, that... Hmm, I do! I have a third PC with a Ryzen R5 1600 "AE" that could stand to be upgraded.

I do DC and mining on my PC, among other things (besides browsing / YT / Skype), so the extra two cores / four threads would be appreciated, somewhat. Still, I hesitate because the performance/$ seems less than my 3600 was. ($200 for 6C/12T, $270 for 8C/16T?)

Still on the fence.

That's $33.33 per core for the 3600 and $33.75 per core for the 3700X. More cores / more threads, still 65W, more cache, higher boost MHz.

EDIT (corrected): Plus, the 3700X includes the Wraith Prism RGB cooler vs. the Wraith Stealth cooler that's included with the 3600. The Stealth is an ok cooler but is the weakest that AMD ships with their Ryzen CPUs, the Prism is the same cooler that AMD ships with their 95W CPUs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I started to do the math after I posted that, and you're right, it actually does come out to roughly (within a $1) the same price/core. So yes, that price is acceptable.

I guess, I need to figure out if I want it THAT badly. I sold a gaming PC the other day to a friend, and I have some funds available, but he has yet to try it out, and I offered him a 15-day no-questions-asked money back policy, so I feel like I should probably wait until that period expires, until I spend that money, in the off chance that I would need to return it to him, and then not have it.

Edit: And THANK YOU (!) for posting this deal.

If you (royal you) are a new-system builder, or want something for CyberPunk 2077, I think that you should probably jump on this deal.

If I had enough spare bucks, I might get more than one (if allowed to, I didn't look, is it limit one?).

But I've got "Big Navi" to save up for too, next month. Sigh. Lots of new tech to spend $$$ on.

 

[Shmee]

A decent deal, but better to wait for a Zen 3 chip IMO if you have a compatible board.

 

[VirtualLarry]

A decent deal, but better to wait for a Zen 3 chip IMO if you have a compatible board.

Yes, possibly true, but I just purchased recently, 3x X370 Fatality Professional AM4 ATX mobos. Which, as has been reported, the B350/X370 chipsets are "too old" to support Zen3 (they might still be, by certain courageous OEMs, we'll see), so Zen2 would theoretically be the "end of the line" as far as CPU upgrades go for those mobos. The reason that I bought those mobos, was their onboard 5GbE-T Aquantia chipset ethernet ports. But as it turns out, I may buy some of those $99 QNAP 5-port 2.5GbE-T switches, for the workstation concentrator, so that would be limiting my bandwidth on each workstation to 2.5GbE-T, and all three of those workstations, would be funneled into a single NAS unit with a single 2.5GbE-T (actually, it has 2x 1GbE-T too, but I'm not counting those) ethernet, for backup purposes.

Eventually, I would like to get 2+ Gbit/sec down/up FIOS, if I'm still living here in five years. If they offer it. Or possibly 10Gbit/sec Comcast, if they offer it first. Maybe. If It's cheap enough. (I downgraded to lowest FIOS speed to save money recently, because some of my other bills went up, and I'm on a relatively fixed income.)

So if I decide to upgrade to those X370 boards, with 5GbE-T onboard, then an 3700X would probably be "just right" for me, although three of those are going to be fairly pricey still.

 

[MisterE]

A decent deal, but better to wait for a Zen 3 chip IMO if you have a compatible board.

My motherboard has the B550 chipset so it is compatible, but I'm way past time to upgrade and Zen 3 will be expensive and hard to find in stock when it ships. I can eventually kick the Ryzen 7 3700X down to my "server" with B350 chipset and use it's current Ryzen 5 3400G CPU to upgrade my entertainment center PC.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Does anyone have any predictions, are these 3700X CPUs likely to go up or down in price?

@ Newegg, even the old-school 1600 is $200+, as is the 3600, and I think that the 2600 was $199 too.

Wondering if I should hold my nose and bite, or if this CPU will go down to $250 or lower.

 

[Macgyversite]

Well even if it drops to say $240. You would save $30 BUT you would be using it Now til the price drop. That is worth something.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I guess I missed out with this deal. The "deal" I posted for $319.99 w/free 120GB WD Green SATA SSD isn't really a deal at all, compared to this one.

 

[MisterE]

I guess I missed out with this deal. The "deal" I posted for $319.99 w/free 120GB WD Green SATA SSD isn't really a deal at all, compared to this one.

Someone will probably put it on sale again sometime soon. Late last year and early this year AMD had a promotion going for $50 off the Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 3700X, that's why they were pretty cheap for so long. The 3700X was around $267 at Amazon for several weeks, but I never bought one because I wanted a B550 mATX mobo with 2 physical PCI-E x16 slots and stock was nonexistent. The promo was over when motherboards came in so I got lucky when I caught the 3700X at $265 + tax.