Prime Day sees the enduringly capable AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU fall to its lowest prices yet

£128 / $161 for a mid-range favourite

Prime Days aren’t typically a bully root of gaming CPU bargains – that’s much Black Friday’s thing. Present institution excluded, however, arsenic it turns retired the oldie-but-goodie AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is presently hitting all-time lows with snipped tags of £128 connected Amazon UK and $161 connected Amazon US.

While these aren’t particularly heavy discounts from their pre-Prime Day levels – Keepa tells maine that the US listing has precocious been hovering astir $170, not the $299 MSRP – it does look that these are the cheapest that the 7600X has been, astatine slightest connected Amazon. The evident drawback is that you’d beryllium buying a processor from 2022, but past I deliberation that’s good successful this instance: CPUs don’t get retired of day arsenic rapidly as, say, graphics cards, and the 7600X was a good mid-range spot erstwhile it launched.

It helps that overmuch of what we’ve seen from AMD and Intel successful the interim has been beauteous unconvincing: Intel’s 14th gen CPUs lone performed astir the aforesaid arsenic their 13th gen CPUs, which successful crook lone performed astir the aforesaid arsenic their 12th gen CPUs, and the little said astir the newest Core Ultra bid the better. AMD had overmuch much occurrence with their X3D/3D V-Cache chips, but these person tended towards the costly side, and adjacent the 7600X’s nonstop successor – the Ryzen 5 9600X – is inactive stubbornly keeping its ain terms up. Not truthful with the erstwhile model, evidently.

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US deal:

The Ryzen 5 7600X is besides adequately futureproofed, with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 RAM compatibility, and was among the archetypal Ryzen chips to halt putting those dangerously easy-to-bend pins connected the back. If you’re readying a archetypal PC build, possibly you excessively tin articulation the blessed procreation that’s ne'er known the suffering of uncovering a azygous crooked strand of copper rendering the full strategy unusable. A brighter aboriginal for our children, close there.