AMD's excellent value Ryzen 5 5600X has dropped to £110 from Ebuyer
A solid CPU for less.
AMD'S Ryzen 5 5600X is the slightly older and faster brother to our pick of the best budget AMD gaming CPU, the 5600, coming with a slightly higher clock speed and generally excellent performance for a modest outlay in 2024. From Ebuyer, you can grab a 5600X in more basic 'tray' packaging with a handy discount, with the chip coming down in price to £110 - a handy saving of £22 on its previous list price.
Much like a deal I covered on AMD's newer 7800X3D a few weeks ago, this 5600X isn't technically a retail chip. This is instead a tray CPU, which essentially means you're just getting the chip itself in basic packaging, foregoing the stock cooler that usually comes in the box. For reference, a 5600X in full retail packaging is between £125 and £135 elsewhere, so you are saving a little bit by going for this option. It is otherwise a brand new processor with no other funny business.
With the 5600X, you're getting a capable 6 core and 12 thread processor that should be more than up to the task of both general computing, as well as more intensive workloads such as gaming and content creation. It's got a boost clock of up to 4.7GHz, and can perform well even with slightly slower DDR4 RAM than the performance/price sweet spot of 3200MT/s without much of a performance penalty.
The fact also remains is that the 5600 marks out an excellent jumping off point into the great value world that is AMD's AM4 ecosystem. While AM5 still features pretty high barriers to entry including grabbing rather costly DDR5 RAM as well as some of the more expensive AM5-capable motherboards. By comparison, the AM4 ecosystem is awash with high-spec X570 and B550 motherboards that won't cost you too much. It's worth noting also that DDR4 RAM has dropped like a stone in price too, making an important component a fair bit cheaper than before. It's also worth noting that PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSDs are coming back down in price compared to some higher prices earlier this year. This all combines to mean that it's not too expensive to get the building blocks of a more than capable PC built on AM4 these days, while having a capable processor at its core.
If you are in the market for an amazing value CPU for a lot less, this Ebuyer deal on the Ryzen 5 5600X is not to be missed.