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>That's competitive with the 3700X: little higher cost, and more heat, but more gaming performance too. I wouldn't call the cost « little higher » if you facto
by Bayart 7y ago
>That's competitive with the 3700X: little higher cost, and more heat, but more gaming performance too.
I wouldn't call the cost « little higher » if you factor in the motherboard (and possibly the cooler). Any AM4 board will run a 3700X whereas Intel's using yet another socket for their new chips.
- paulmd 7y agoThe value of the pack-in cooler is sub-$20, it's quite noisy and not particularly good at cooling. Something like a Hyper T4 or Deepcool Gammax 400 is in the ballpark, something like the Hyper 212 Evo is cooler and quieter, so that sets very low bounds on the value of that pack-in. You don't really want to be using the sub-$100 tier of motherboards for AMD either. People will talk up how cheap motherboards are but tell people you're going to put a 3900X (only 105W TDP) on a B450 and their eyes will roll at you.