Are you ready to upgrade your old gaming rig? Newegg has this awesome Ryzen 5 3600X and Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 bundle for $559.89, which saves you up to $40 as opposed to buying each part individually.
The Ryzen 5 3600X is part of AMD's Zen 2 army that recently invaded the processor market. The processor has formidable attributes that include six cores, 12 threads and up to 32MB of L3 cache. The chip runs with a 3.8 GHz base clock and 4.4 GHz boost clock. The Ryzen 5 3600X supports DDR4-3200 memory modules and the new PCIe 4.0 inferface out of the box. The Wraith Spire CPU cooler is included with the Ryzen 5 3600X so you don't have to spend extra for a cooling solution.
The Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 is a Navi-powered graphics card that's based on AMD's pristine RDNA (Radeon DNA) architecture. It comes with 2,304 Stream Processors that operate with a 1,465 MHz base clock, 1,625 MHz game clock and a boost clock that tops out at 1,725 MHz. The graphics card also has 8GB of GDDR6 memory running at 14 Gbps across a 256-bit memory bus for a maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.
The Radeon RX 5700 has a TBP (Typical Board Power) off 180W and draws power from one eight-pin PCIe connector and one six-pin PCIe connector. It's recommended that your system has at least a 600W power supply.
Should You Buy This Bundle?
As usual, we highly recommend you check out our in-depth Radeon RX 5700 review before opening your wallet. For more help picking the best graphics card for you, there's our graphics card buying guide, the AMD and Nvidia GPU hierarchy and our breakdown of the best graphics cards we've tested.
You can also review our CPU buying guide for help. To see where the Ryzen 5 3600X ranks among others currently available, including from rival Intel, check out our CPU hierarchy page. And for other CPUs we love, see our favorite gaming CPUs and favorite CPUs for productivity performance.
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Zhiye Liu is a news editor and memory reviewer at Tom’s Hardware. Although he loves everything that’s hardware, he has a soft spot for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.