AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Now at Its Lowest Price Ever - Real Deals

If you're looking to build a budget PC right now, then today is a great day to start. You can grab a Ryzen 5 5600X for just $260 at Best Buy — its lowest ever price. This AMD mid-tier processor is compatible with AM4 socket motherboards and comes with a bundled Wraith Stealth cooler. The Ryzen 5 5600X also received our Editors Choice award for its specs and performance compared to other CPUs in its class.

To complement a new CPU, you may be interested in a more reasonably priced GPU like the XFX Radeon RX 6600 Speedster SWFT 8GB for $500 at B&H. And if you're seeking a budget gaming headset, you might want to check out the Corsair HS60 Pro 7.1 at Amazon for only $50.

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TL;DR — Today’s Best Deals

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: was $300, now $260 at BestBuy
XFX Radeon RX 6600 Speedster SWFT 8GB: was $533, now $500 at B&H
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 250GB: was $90, now $60 at Amazon
MSI B550-A PRO AM4: now $118 at Newegg
Corsair HS60 Pro 7.1: was $70, now $50 at Amazon

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hotaru251

...unless you are anywhere near a microcenter where it frequently hits $229
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King_V

MicroCenter is in-store only, but has the 5600X for $229.99.

As recently as this past Monday, a $50 off for new customers, from the then $239.99, would let you get it for $189.99, which is when I got it, with my gf being the new customer.

MicroCenter $50 off select CPUs for new customers deal.
I wonder if they will credit us back the $10 for the price drop if we ask... :unsure:
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Zescion

Serious question, is the i5 12400 with B660/DDR4 a better deal right now for gaming?
Looking at reviews it's not just (slightly) faster, but also similarly efficient.
Am I missing anything?
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punkncat

I am much of the mind that after this paywall crap they just pulled on GPU that they are going on the list of "don't deal with unless I have to" retailers.
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hotaru251

Zescion said:
Looking at reviews it's not just (slightly) faster, but also similarly efficient.
just look up some 12400 vs 5600x video comparisons.
this 1 is f verison cpu but should be basically same overall.
ugoYKwpAeBsView: https://youtu.be/ugoYKwpAeBs
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King_V

Zescion said:
Serious question, is the i5 12400 with B660/DDR4 a better deal right now for gaming?
Looking at reviews it's not just (slightly) faster, but also similarly efficient.
Am I missing anything?

For the most part, you are correct. The CPUs are neck and neck, with the 12400 maybe having a bit of an edge.

Based on the pricing from Microcenter, WITH the new customer discount, it was almost a wash, with $5 in favor of the AMD for the board I chose.

The cheapest motherboard for Intel they had, which was the only H610 they had, was about $25 more than the A520 motherboard I got for the 5600X. That A520 was NOT the cheapest one, though, but still pretty inexpensive.

BUT, the 12400 was $20 less than the 5600X.

The memory is a wash, either could use the same DDR4.

If I went with the cheapest A520 board, that gap would've widened a bit in AMD's favor. But without the new customer discount bringing the 5600X's price down, the price/performance is in Intel's favor.
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Giroro

hotaru251 said:
...unless you are anywhere near a microcenter where it frequently hits $229

To be fair, nobody lives anywhere near a microcenter. There's like, what, 20 of them in the entire world?

I'm not sure why people online always act like Mircrocenter is some big national chain. It's tiny.
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hotaru251

Giroro said:
nobody lives anywhere near a microcenter
you know people can drive right? (heck can even take train for cheap)

Giroro said:
I'm not sure why people online always act like Mircrocenter is some big national chain. It's tiny.
hence why i said if you anywhere near one.

an hour drive even is fair enough as the price of gas will still be cheaper than the price difference getting it somewhere else.

also there are 25 microcenters.
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watzupken

Zescion said:
Serious question, is the i5 12400 with B660/DDR4 a better deal right now for gaming?
Looking at reviews it's not just (slightly) faster, but also similarly efficient.
Am I missing anything?
I feel if you are buying a CPU + motherboard combo, the price between a Ryzen 5 5600X and Intel i5 12400 should not differ that much. The Ryzen chip will be very attractive if you have an existing AM4 motherboard that can support the newer Zen 3 chip. So it will be a drop in upgrade, without having to spend extra for a new motherboard. For gaming, it really depends on the resolution and graphic settings that you game on. At higher resolution, i.e. 1440p or higher, you likely won't see significant variation since we are mostly GPU limited here. There are some outliers like games from Microsoft, i.e. Flight Simulator and AOE 4, which don't utilize many cores. In both cases, Alder Lake beats all other processors due to its advantage when it comes to single core performance. But at least from my observations, such games are rare, and somehow only games from Microsoft of late have this problem.
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spongiemaster

hotaru251 said:
you know people can drive right? (heck can even take train for cheap)

hence why i said if you anywhere near one.

an hour drive even is fair enough as the price of gas will still be cheaper than the price difference getting it somewhere else.

also there are 25 microcenters.
5 are in the NYC area, so their are 20 stores for the entire planet outside of NYC. They're all in the US. I live in NC and the closest one to me is almost 6 hours. Giroro is right, statistically, almost no one lives near a Microcenter.
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