AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Deals: As Low as $289

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Newegg has the Ryzen 5 5600X on a Cyber Monday sale for $289, which is $30 off the normal $309 price point and near the lowest pricing we've ever seen for this chip. 

AMD struck a compelling price-to-performance balance with the Ryzen 5000 family of Zen 3 desktop processors. The Ryzen 5000 family offers excellent performance and great power efficiency thanks to TSMC's 7nm FinFET process node.

One of the best CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600X is a particularly compelling entry-level SKU for mainstream gamers and can pair with a wide variety of affordable AMD motherboards. We first reviewed the processor nearly a year ago and highlighted its formidable gaming performance, strength in single- and multi-threaded applications, and its knack for overclocking. 

Even though AMD's Ryzen 5 5600G offers the lowest price of entry to the Zen 3 family, it is an APU and doesn't provide the full performance of an X-series model. To this day, the Ryzen 5 5600X stands as the lowest point of entry into the standard Zen 3 Ryzen product stack, and this deal lowers the bar even more. 

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: was $309, now $289 with promo code BLCYB666 at Newegg

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=44583&u1=hawk-custom-tracking&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newegg.com%2Famd-ryzen-5-5600x%2Fp%2FN82E16819113666" data-link-merchant="newegg.com"">was $309, now $289 with promo code BLCYB666 at Newegg
Earning 4.5 stars in our <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-5600x-zen-3-review" data-link-merchant="tomshardware.com"" data-link-merchant="newegg.com"">AMD Ryzen 5 5600X review, this chip is highly sought after thanks to its strong single- and multi-threaded performance, leading power efficiency, and PCIe Gen4 support. It also features stellar thermals, a bundled cooler, and overclocking capability.

The Ryzen 5 5600X is a 6-core/12-thread processor with a base clock of 3.7 GHz and a boost frequency of 4.6 GHz. In addition, it features 32MB of L3 cache and a low thermal design power (TDP) of 65 watts.

The Ryzen 5 5600X also comes with a heatsink in the retail box for those on a strict gaming PC budget. However, if you plan on overclocking, it would be advisable to invest in a beefier cooler such as one of those on our best CPU coolers list.

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Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware. He has written about PC and Mac tech since the late 1990s with bylines at AnandTech, DailyTech, and Hot Hardware. When he is not consuming copious amounts of tech news, he can be found enjoying the NC mountains or the beach with his wife and two sons.