AMD Deals & Offers

You asking us to time travel either to the past or to the future:D Since when processors dropping that much like for example mobile phones? They never do unless next gen is introduced. These selling very well, people need new PC's on daily bases, and Intel is no match considering price/performance. Im showing members how to save 30+ quid and You dont see great deal? Iam confused:D

Deals, right?!? (lol) Just that these have been about this price Nov/Dec last year and with new technology on the horizon I would expect this price as the norm and a deal to be around 230. Though that is only me ;)

Yesss... the point of this website (confused)

Like AMD's ryzen line but I don't see this as a great deal, especially with the possibility of the 3000 series CPUs being released in a couple of months. Am I missing something?

What you mean Fee Fee?

trash motherboard with a CPU made for overclocking with cheapo memory. Big NO. crap 'deal'

Crap stuff my amd 8150 plus board lasted 3months before it started having issues couldn't be bothered with returning it

Budget board. I probably wouldn't pay it because I would pick my parts individually and pay a bit more to get something that'll last. Find £210 for a 2600 and a better B450 board. Supports faster RAM, more likely to support more of the near future Zen 2 CPU models with better VRMs etc. It's a smarter choice long term IMO.

Don't know where you pulled that price for the 1600x, look here its 125, https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-Ryzen-1600X-Desktop-CPU/dp/B06XKWT7GD/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=Ryzen+1600x&qid=1553017249&s=gateway&sr=8-1 And doubt this mobo is worth anywhere near 60 pounds

Well it kind of is, a a320 mobo like this probably 30-40 pounds, and a 2600 is 130-140, while 2600x is probably 170-180, so for 20-30 extra you could get the newer gen if my math is right.

hmmm (nerd)

The 1660 is, but it's still significantly better than the 590. And, there is a room for a whopping 15% OC gain. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_1660_Gaming_X/33.htm And yes, this is one of the better cards, but they are all pretty close and most are hitting the 15% OC mark. TPU has a tone of reviews up for browsing.

GTX1660 wins. At stock it's at least as fast as an RX590 model with a good cooler and clocks that have been pushed. Such an RX590 model has virtually NO core overclocking ability, let's be realistic here. They are all on their upper limit and memory speed increases give limited gains. Whereas even the cheap £200 GTX1660 models gain a fair bit on the core and significantly on their memory, because the core is bandwidth constrained. That's why a GTX1660 with a good memory OC is capable of matching and even beating a stock 1660Ti. An RX590 simply cannot do that, if you are factoring in overclocking. Added in the cooler temperatures, quieter coolers, much lower power consumption it's a slam dunk better GPU than this for less money. Definite win

Id Pay the like £30 - £40 extra an go to a vega 56 over this

Granted there's not a lot of overclocking potential with the 590, but the GTX1660 is comparable to the 580 in some workloads and that is overclockable. At the same price point these are really muddy waters and I don't think people should be giving a definite "win" to either side lol. If anyone is buying it under the "newer" pretense, then I'd put the 590 in the same bracket as 580 due to the underlying tech being pretty much the same, and go for the new GTX/RTX series.

This is a really bad deal. Cold cold cold. Why would you buy that? If you want a secondary card you can get much better stuff for £30 of ebay.

I've just noticed it's used... (fierce) facepalm (fierce) OP would be nice to mention it's used in the title. (flirt)

2 years ago I bought a second hand 7850 for £30 when my GPU broke, to use as a temporary card. According to gpu bench that card was over 3 times more powerful than this, 2 years later for the same price. That should give you an idea of how great of a deal this is... And explain the negative score.

I bought two and down loaded the new adrenaline 19.3.2 from AMD these are DELL branded not Chinese imports. Mine arrived DHL 2 days from UK supplier.

> No original packaging, manuals or cables supplied. Be careful that these arent fake. Lots of chinese fake GPUs around, even low end stuff...

Slightly faster for general use (probably barely noticeable). Ryzen series processors' main advantage is that they have good enough integrated graphics to play more demanding games than just web-browser games, such as Esports (League of Legends, Fortnite etc). They'll also help with anything else that needs a bit more graphical oomph. But for most, they're about the same; if the laptop isn't going to be used for any games, I'd go for the i7.

Do you have one yourself?

sva = tn panel display. pity

Silly question for some of you but is i7 8 series better then Ryzen 5 ?

not worth it - thermally throttles a lot.

Definitely wait, your current CPU is still decent and you’ll notice a much bigger upgrade moving to the 3000 series than you would the 2700

virtually the same chip lol

Still £183 try this link https://www.amazon.es/gp/offer-listing/B07B41717Z/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=new

271 EUR now - price reverted to equivalent to UK?

16 threads for £183, scorchio!

https://www.ebuyer.com/search?q=gtx+1660&sort=price+ascending Edit: GTX 1660 is different to GTX 1660Ti. The former has only just been released, on Thursday.

Are you sure, I've checked daily :/

Yes.

Cheers mate, glad to know!

Powercolor are one of the better AMD partners..Asus and Gigabyte are not as good as this, Sapphire are probably the only one I'd buy over this version

I think the 5 would be better with IPS screen.

Would this be ideal for some video editing 1080p files ?

Ryzen 7 and they didn’t even bother with an SSD for you! At least they’re cheap and easy to fit.

Yes, Aspire 3 and 5 series are upgrade friendly. Aspire 5 has an IPS screen.

Lol that's now how it works. It depends on the specifications of the laptop. That's like saying a tablet Samsung/iPad tablet is better than a Samsung S10 or iPhone XS because it has a bigger battery... well yeh that's technically the truth but the newer S10 or iPhone XS is better in all other aspects even though it's smaller device and the battery is probably in most cases better optimised. For example, 15.6" Acer with only an i3, 4gb Ram and 1tb hard drive for £380 is much worse than a 14" Lenovo with a Rhyzen 5 or i5 and 4GB Ram and 1tb hard drive or a 256 GB SSD for £450. But for an average person who does just office work or browsing the Acer is probably better for them. While for a student or a person who has a business they should opt for the Lenovo model... Like i said it comes all down to the person and their preferences.

should be all good :) most use 3000hz ram

Thanks for the helpful confirmation as the ad doesn't say it is included anywhere that i can see. I've looked and the 2600 cpu seem to have the weaker stealth rather than the spire. I think i can live with the weaker cooling solution as i wont be overclocking very much I doubt so this is looking attractive to me. The weaker DRM will hopefully be ok as well. I already have the 3000 MHz ram.

Comes with its own cooler . AMD don't sell OEM chips like Intel so all retail with spire or wraith cooler Will need DDR4 ram, CCL doing 16GB Corsair 3000hz kit for £85, as well as the bundle

looking at this. Presume i would need to purchase a HSF for the ryzen as this bundle doesnt include.

yeah sorry, all doing it apart of Gigabyte deal but one sells out so listing 3 options gives buyers choice of store and stock

I have the older Tomahawk B350 that i picked up from ebay for £50 a couple of months after they came out. Been really happy with it. Keep trying to resist an upgrade to it because it's not necessary.

I think generally the ASUS B450 boards have been seen as over-priced. I opted for the Tomahawk in the end and am very happy so far

I have no beef with ASUS, I just looked at reviews of this bourd, please look at the video I posted.

I've not heard anything bad about this board, however if i was buying a b450 my first choice would be the msi tomahawk. If the board was bad we'd have a load of links to tech sites saying avoid these boards. The poster might be posting personal bias from a bad experience with asus.

I've seen a lot of reviews of the TUF brand, it's not exactly a mark of excellence, most companies, like ASUS with this motherboard, are just stamping their cheap stuff with this brand, not saying all TUF products are crap, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when I see this stamped on a product.

great price for quality motherboard, beware however, that it may require a bios update to work with 2ng gen Ryzens.

Here is the earlier post, have a read

Sorry this has all that or the tomahawk ??

Better VRM for overclocking and potentially future CPU’s. Better fan control. Not sure about any other differences.

How does this compare to the Tomahawk ?

Not full HD (14 Inch 1366 x 768 Screen)

Wouldn't touch these cowboys - I'm still waiting for them to get back to me about a DOA machine from 5 days ago, hideous customer care...

PLEASE READ I have exact same laptop and, straight out of the box, it's hideously slow (literally took 26 hours to update on set up) if you want something to use straight out of the box then avoid this like the plague. However, last night I installed a 240gb SSD for £30 and the difference is insane, its a great laptop now. Changing the ssd is quite easy too, I had no issues and I'm usually a bumbling buffoon with these sort of things.

nice one Sarden hoping to build a rig for my son in law so he'll well look forward to this news

Some new posts around here for the 2600/700W psu/b450. Smashing deal put on today pal.

Anyone who has looked at this. Check the new threads for the 700W / B450 / 2600 cpu combo for £250..

Good spot!

cheers for the heads up and writing the post :)

It isn’t, no matter how you look at it - too slow and runs too hot. The SSD is a nice inclusion but the cost has come down so much recently it’s not such a big deal as it once was. The Intel equivalent (eg Pentium Gold) would be much better. Buying this is a false economy.

In reality, for £245, it's a pretty good CPU especially paired with SSD.

If you upgrade the RAM to 8gig would it improve OR is the fact that it is only a "dual core" that lets it down? Alternatively could someone direct me towards a laptop below £300 which one would recommend? i don't mind if i have to buy it and then upgrade an element of it.

But in reality, that CPU is pretty awful. The SSD is the only upside here. The other negatives are the 4GB RAM and HD display - still, for a new machine, might be ok for some.

On the face of it this looks a very good deal