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AMD Zen 5 CPU has dropped to a staggeringly low price — Ryzen 5 9600X now just $189, even includes a free 512GB SSD

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The AMD Zen 5 CPU is available at a low price today, just a few dollars above its all-time low of $185. However, even better is that it comes bundled with a free M.2 SSD, albeit a small-capacity 512GB Gen 3 drive. The SSD might not set the world on fire, but I can't say the same for the 9600X; this is a great CPU for building a budget gaming PC, especially at this price.

Check out Newegg's deal and pick up this CPU/SSD combo of AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X processor and a Patriot P300 512GB SSD for just $189. The list price of the 9600X is $279, so you're saving $89 off that price and getting a free SSD worth $31.

AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X is built around the Zen 5 architecture and features six cores and 12 threads, with a base clock of 3.9 GHz. When boosted, it can reach speeds as high as 5.4 GHz. The 9600X also features integrated graphics, so if you're building a non-gaming rig or just want to do exceptionally light gaming, this processor does away with the need for a separate graphics card.

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X / Patriot P400 Lite SSD Combo: now $189 at Newegg

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X / Patriot P400 Lite SSD Combo: now $189 at Newegg (was $279)
The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X is built around AMD's Zen 5 architecture. It features six cores and 12 threads, with a base clock speed of 3.9 GHz. When boosted, it can reach speeds as high as 5.4 GHz. This model supports PCIe 5.0 and DDR5-5600 RAM.

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The free Patriot P300 512GB SSD is a PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 SSD with sequential read and write speeds of 1,700MB/s and 1,100MB/s, respectively. This SSD drive alone retails for $31 at Newegg, and although it has a low capacity for today's uses, it's still large enough to help top up a pre-existing system's total capacity.

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Stewart Bendle
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

11 Comments Comment from the forums
  • rluker5
    Or for $10 more you could switch that SSD for an AIO CPU cooler and some games and have the same gaming performance, but with 30-40% more productivity performance: https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i5-14th-gen-core-i5-14600k-raptor-lake-lga-1700-desktop-cpu-processor/p/N82E16819118470 from the same store.

    Edit: I don't know why Toms has so many one sided product advertisements as "deals" when the omitted other brand has better deal. The author just kept quiet about a better CPU for $200 that comes with $185 in bonus stuff from the same etailer.
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  • King_V
    Nobody at Tom's is plotting against in favor of .
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  • thestryker
    rluker5 said:
    Edit: I don't know why Toms has so many one sided product advertisements as "deals" when the omitted other brand has better deal. The author just kept quiet about a better CPU for $200 that comes with $185 in bonus stuff from the same etailer.
    The deals they put up are random and typically only carry one product. I wouldn't be surprised if future had some sort of ad quota so they pick a good one and post it. I'm not sure how they do them, but I'm certain it's not some intentional thing.

    You've done your part by posting a better deal (at least today speaking as AM5 is very likely to have Zen 6 support) in the article forum post.
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  • lmcnabney
    This is a sign that because of GPU prices people aren't building as many PCs and AMD has a glut of CPUs now.
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  • rluker5
    thestryker said:
    You've done your part by posting a better deal (at least today speaking as AM5 is very likely to have Zen 6 support) in the article forum post.
    Is buying 2 CPUs in 3 years really a better deal than buying one for 5? 6c12t is the new 4c8t in terms of longevity. Sure it is fine today but why buy something with imminent need and mechanisms in place for replacement when you can buy something that will last longer for basically the same price?

    If you are looking to buy something cheap for now to upgrade later the performance isn't much worse with a 12400f+ Huananzhi mobo + Silicon Power 32 GB 3200 DDR4 for $203 combined from Newegg right now. (Even meets all W11 requirements for those who have daughters clinging to their old Haswell hand me downs.) The platform costs on that are less than the resale losses of the 9600x in a few years if you just threw the platform in the trash.
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  • thestryker
    rluker5 said:
    Is buying 2 CPUs in 3 years really a better deal than buying one for 5? 6c12t is the new 4c8t in terms of longevity. Sure it is fine today but why buy something with imminent need and mechanisms in place for replacement when you can buy something that will last longer for basically the same price?
    Outside of multithreaded there isn't much of a difference between the 9600X and 14600K. That means both CPUs run into the same issue as time passes in every other workload. On the AMD side the CPU can be upgraded to something faster (and presumably more power efficient) than Intel can.

    Now if someone was buying with the intent to just use the machine without changing anything going forward for a couple of generations I'd point at Intel every time. However if upgrading sooner is on the table there's no doubt that a drop in CPU upgrade is an advantage.
    rluker5 said:
    If you are looking to buy something cheap for now to upgrade later the performance isn't much worse with a 12400f+ Huananzhi mobo + Silicon Power 32 GB 3200 DDR4 for $203 combined from Newegg right now.
    I cannot imagine you seriously think a DDR4 platform with poor power delivery is a great base to drop a more powerful processor in down the line as that would be flat out stupid. Performance of the 12400F is significantly worse than the 9600X except for multithreaded where it's only a little worse. If you're suggesting buy a bandaid now and toss the whole thing when you want to upgrade that's also stupid for a multitude of reasons.
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  • dmitche31958
    And only $300++ for the motherboard. LOL.
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  • Thunder64
    dmitche31958 said:
    And only $300++ for the motherboard. LOL.

    What are you talking about you can get plenty for half that.
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  • Marlin1975
    dmitche31958 said:
    And only $300++ for the motherboard. LOL.
    Plenty of great B850 boards for much less now.
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  • rluker5
    thestryker said:


    I cannot imagine you seriously think a DDR4 platform with poor power delivery is a great base to drop a more powerful processor in down the line as that would be flat out stupid. Performance of the 12400F is significantly worse than the 9600X except for multithreaded where it's only a little worse. If you're suggesting buy a bandaid now and toss the whole thing when you want to upgrade that's also stupid for a multitude of reasons.
    Not as an upgrading platform, that motherboard is functional, nothing more. Good for a 65w chip. I was pointing out that this whole platform longevity argument to save money doesn't make as much sense as just saving the money in the first place. If you picked up that CPU, motherboard, ram combo you could also get a B580 for just the price of the 9600X+mobo+ram+SSD. And it would be a balanced bargain system that has decent all around performance for longer than AM5 will be current. Intel consumer may have MRDIMMs by then that are as much faster over AM5 DDR5 as AM5 DDR5 is over 3200 DDR4.

    I just got a bit bargain purchase excited on that combo because my daughter is still using my old no longer supported by W10 4770k and I have nothing else in the house that remotely needs an upgrade.
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