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out there, and it's become even more appealing in recent months as its price has fluctuated and dropped down to a level where it makes for quite a steal. At the moment, it's down to a price that beats its Black Friday low from Currys by a reasonable margin - £259, down from its previous list of £349.With its eight cores and 16 threads, it's an especially potent choice for everything for AAA gaming. A boost clock of 4.
It's really on the front of gaming where the 5800X3D comes into its own with that much larger cache, given its content creation benchmarks aren't as much of an upgrade on other 5000-series chips as you may well expect. With that in mind though, it's still an excellent choice for intense content creation workloads that can involve especially fiddly tasks such as transcoding video and rendering high-res files.
The added bonus of going for the 5800X3D at this point is that it's gotten to the point where feature-packed AM4 capable motherboards are getting to some reasonable prices, and other components such as RAM and storage are getting cheaper. For reference, if you want to grab a 32GB kit of DDR4-3200 RAM, which is the price-to-performance sweet spot, this Crucial Pro kit is.
£259 for a chip as powerful as AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D is an especially tempting deal, and if you're someone who wants one of the best gaming CPUs without having to splash out on all the AM5 extras, this is a fantastic choice.This 4K 144Hz electriQ gaming monitor is a bargain price from Laptops Direct
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