Dell Ryzen 7 16GB gaming system for $675

[ultimatebob]

When I filled out the coupon code myself, I ended up with a price of $800. Still pretty good price for a system like this.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/339...all-amd-gaming-pc-for-just-675-today.amp.html

 

[VirtualLarry]

For comparison, I just picked up a Ryzen R7 2700, 16GB of RGB DDR4-3600 (GSkill) RAM, an ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F ATX mobo, for $205, $115, and $110, so $430 + tax/ship for those, then you need an SSD (got some 1TB 660p NVMe SSDs coming in soon, $88 + tax/ship for those, "open-box"), so we're up to $513, without a case, PSU, or GPU, or OS. So $675 does seem like kind of deal for that one. (Granted, if you build it yourself, you may not save money, but you often end up with a more robust and upgradable rig for the future.)

I wonder about the GPU, because one of our members ordered and then cancelled an RX 580 4GB card for like $127, that turned out to be a re-labeled/flashed RX 570. (Sold by Dell, apparently?)

 

[ultimatebob]

You can tell that the Ryzen 3000 parts are coming soon, because the 2000 series parts and systems are being discounted everywhere now

 

[VirtualLarry]

You can tell that the Ryzen 3000 parts are coming soon, because the 2000 series parts and systems are being discounted everywhere now

Yep. Just bought a 2700. Now I'm re-thinking it, as @alexruiz pointed out, the 2700 is the "odd man out", of the 2nd-Gen retail-market Ryzen CPUs.

The 2600 has a 65W limit, but has two fewer cores, so it can boost a bit higher than the 8-core 2700, which is also 65W. Basically, because it has more cores, it is more limited. The 2600X is 95W, and the 2700X is 105W, which gives them a lot more clock and voltage headroom within that TDP envelope.

Still, I hope that there's a way to remove the TDP limit, or bump it up in UEFI settings, or something to 95W, for the 2700, then it might approach 2700X clocks.