Ready for a Monday-morning splurge? This one may prove hard to resist, as one of the best gaming CPUs on the market has tumbled in price.
Yep, the chip in question is AMD’s venerable Ryzen 7 7800X3D, whose price has dropped nearly 10% to £319. That’s the lowest I’ve ever seen. Better still, prices have also come down across the pond, where said chip now retails for $344.
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
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Why the fuss? Part of AMD’s X3D arsenal, this particular Ryzen 7 packs 96MB of L3 cache to provide an extra wallop of gaming performance. Align that to an eight-core, 16-thread configuration operating at up to 5GHz, and you have one of the best gaming CPUs of the current generation.
There’s no cooler in the box, so you might want to consider one of our top picks, and you will need an AM5 motherboard as Ryzen 7 7800X3D is not backward compatible with existing AM4 platforms.
If you need a reminder of just how potent this CPU is, my testing from the 2023 launch shows just how fantastic 7800X3D’s gaming credentials really are. This is now a £319 processor that can challenge much dearer competitors in the framerate stakes.
There’s no telling how long the sale will last, but if you’ve been waiting for the right time to make the jump to AM5, well, this is it. At these prices, Ryzen 7 7800X3D automatically becomes a top recommendation.
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