Thursday, February 2nd 2023
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Price Trimmed to $299
In the wake of its Ryzen 7000X3D series announcement, AMD cut the price of its Ryzen 7 7700X 8-core/16-thread "Zen 4" processor. The Ryzen 7000X3D series is available from February 28, however, the 8-core 7800X3D will only be available from April 6. Despite this, sales prospects of the 7700X could be affected, as the SKU faces cannibalization not just from the 7800X3D, but also the recently launched 65 W Ryzen 7 7700, which has shown decent overclocking potential with motherboard-level power limit unlocks. What's interesting is that the 105 W 7700X at $299 puts it below the 65 W 7700 that launched at $325, which means that the 7700 could get even cheaper. This series of price-cuts and SKU re-positioning could make AMD competitive against Intel's 13th Gen Core i5 SKUs such as the i5-13600 and i5-13500 6P+8E models.
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VideoCardz
63 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Price Trimmed to $299
I was looking at micro-atx and itx B650 board but they are about £24 / 29USD more compared to the Asus Prime X670-P WiFi which is still a X chipset.
The ITX I was looking at was MSI MPG B650I EDGE WIFI for about about £241 / 291USD and the ASUS TUF Gaming B650M-Plus WIFI costs about £229 / 276USD while the Asus Prime X670-P WiFi is currently on sale this month for £216,44 / 260,91USD so it's a better deal and a better chipset and I will life with my case and everything else.
Because it would be a shame down the road only seeing 99% second handed A620 chipset boards because no one will buy the B and X models because of the price and the users upgrading or buying into the AM5 second handed will only get the lowest chipset possible.
AMD need to rethink their AM5 because A series is really the ultra low end and B is a good middle way I don't really count the E models of the B650 or X670 chips because they do have they needs for people who know what they need for normal people even like my self a computer man I can buy a middle or high X670E board but will I use all their feature? Short ander NO so I rather get the board I am waiting on now and be happy that I can still run 1xGPU, 3xM.2.'s even only one can be Gen 5 which I don't need anyway and my OS is perfectly on a Gen3 NVME drive so.
Most B650 boards for the middle end needs to be down to about 160-180USD max and ofc ITX might be a little more because they are harder to built and pack with features.
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blog.bizvibe.com/blog/top-10-motherboard-manufacturers
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