AMD's Ryzen 7 5700G Down to $232: Real Deals

When looking for real deals, can you start throwing in some mini PC's if there's spotted? I have my main rig, but would just like to hook up a small one for a HTPC.

helper800 said:

I wouldn't spend more than 120 dollars for a 5700g at this point.

Its all about the money! Most certainly and to be sure I am clearly not an INTEL/AMD fan. I let my limited cash unfortunately make that decision. But I stopped by at 'Best Buy' today and talked with several sales people and specifically about the new Ryzen line-up stacked tidily in the glass cages. Peggy at the Geek Squad counter said: “All of the new Ryzen 7000 series are not exactly selling out and are not moving off the shelves as we all had expected. And especially the Ryzen 7 5800Xs and Ryzen 9 5950Xs. Even the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5900X sold rather sparingly! So we maintain to have plenty of stock and there has been talk of special AMD sales promotions being scheduled shortly.“

A sales person with a nametag Tony said: “Prices and necessary MB and memory upgrading are hard to digest by the buyers. Our sales of available GPU’s has also been disappointing and we hope that the new 4090 generation may give us an uplift and along with the arrival of the Intel Arc and Raptor Lake products?”

What can I say, but the elephant in the room still remains in having a good fulltime job with security and benefits, besides a small cash cushion in these unpredictable down-times of the economy! Jobs which many still relegated WFH folks and part-time workers have been hoping for!

The article explicitely cited owners of 2nd gen Ryzen as targets.

As such owner, my only interest would be for a discounted 5800X3D, because it's the best DDR4 CPU in the world, and for the additionnal performance in VR.
kinda same as how the i7 4770k was : best cpu on DDR3

Appart from VR, I never ever felt CPU-bound in any game or app since i have my 2700x
But 500$ for better VR is too expensive to justify for now.

amazon.ca ranks the 5800X3D as no1 product in the processor category. I guess my fellow canadian citizens are rich lol