Arriving on the computing scene very soon is the much hyped new AMD processor, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. This new upgrade on the 9800X3D brings pretty much the same specs on paper, bar a 400MHz increase in boost clock speeds. With the same 8 cores and 16 threads, the new 9850X3D can boost to 5.6GHz, up from the 5.2GHz of the 9800X3D. There was also good thermal headroom on the 9800X3D, so making the most out of this to get higher performance was a no-brainer for AMD to get an improved processor out to market. So if you're thinking about building a new high-end gaming rig around this, then today's Newegg combo deal on an Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus WiFi motherboard and 32GB (2x16GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM for $499 is a great pairing.
The motherboard in this combo deal is the Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus WiFi motherboard. A feature-rich board, it supports two onboard PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots and two PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots for storage, and for network connectivity, the latest Wi-Fi 7, 2.5Gb Ethernet, and dual USB4 (40Gbps) Type-C ports, plus a front USB 20Gbps Type-C with (PD) power delivery and fast charge support. This AM5 board is compatible with AMD's 9000-series processors and is a good fit for the latest in the lineup - the 9850X3D.
Corsair's Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 kit comes with two matched 16GB sticks. These CL36 RAM sticks have a CAS latency of 36 and timings of 36-44-44-96, with a 1.40 voltage. The 6000MT/s speed is often mentioned as the sweet spot for AM5 CPUs, but with the new 9850X3D, the DDR5 RAM purportedly speeds don't have as much of an effect on performance as with the other non-X3D AM5 processors.
Prices of components, especially RAM, storage, and GPUs, have risen sharply over the last 3-4 months, with perhaps prices on RAM just now starting to plateau, but it's still an expensive outlay to construct a new high-end gaming PC. Any savings to be made on deals like today's combo bundle means that you put a little more towards the more expensive key components.
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