AMD Ryzen Deals & Offers

I'd only do this if you can change the graphics card. The blower versions can get toasty

Hi this article can explain the difference better than I can :)

Ram a bit expensive tho and what does blower mean if you can explain please

i would buy a cheaper case and more expensive motherboard

Not used for a few years but they used to cancel or not honour around half the orders I placed with them. They seem to advertise product they don't have and if they can't source the product at a reasonable price, just cancel the orders.

Much like when people say "Why does an HP Pavilion cost half as much as an HP Elitebook when they're both the same spec" I'd buy the Elitebook every day of the week over a Pavilion or an Acer Aspire.

How do you get the 10% first purchase discount please?

Any reasonable priced laptop with 4500U and IPS screen? Looking at Ideapad 5 but its not avalible yet

The HP is much higher end device in terms of display and build quality. The specs are almost identical the big difference being in how the 8gb of ram is configured. Also you get the 360 hinge which is important to some. Differences in battery and physical dimensions too worth considering.

This is rip off Britain. I doubt that prices will plunge that much. But I would love to see a 3500U 8GB RAM laptop deal...

I've never been able to go through those slides without envisaging football Manager.

Depends what you do more, stuff with less threads or stuff with more. If you game and use the applications like word processing, spreadsheets, browsers with multiple tabs, the 3600X will do those fabulously. If you do compilation of large code bases, video and image editing & rendering, this will probably be more suited. Not saying this won't do what a 3600X does, it's just as fast and therefore not as much bang for your buck in those circumstances.

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I had one of these installed in an msi x399 creative but got an ndis error stopping the windows installation. I know this isnt a forum for this but has anyone else here had this issue as a pc shop has not been able to resolve it and Im asking on the off chance anyone on this thread has had one of these before with a similar experience.

What is more worth it then, this or a Ryzen 5 3600x for the same price?

Way to expensive

> Yes it will regrow hair and make you more attractive to everyone, and so interesting Okay - I'll order it. I don't need the computer stuff but the rest of my life could do with this. :D

You have to cut it to fit - exactly like a mobile SIM...

Will this run Minecraft on medium atleast?

See my previous reply, earlier in the thread. The offer a similar service to Amazon where it is all paid up front.

Also will steal your data for free

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IPS is essential and worth extra money

What OS does this come with

That spec is also currently available in Macbooks, for £2,500

This https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/mjeccs/saved/

Currently building: 3700X 570X mATX Corsair Ballistix 3600MHz 16GB C16 1TB WD NVMe + 500GB WD NVMe Corsair 650W 80+ Gold Thermaltake V21 Spent approx £840...budgeting another £300-£400 for 5700XT or 2060 Super.

Here you go, X570 motherboard, 3800X CPU, 2070 Super, 3600Mhz memory, 1TB Gen 4 SSD, Win 10 Pro, many parts will likely have more than 3 years warranty all for £1506 and building it yourself. Overall a much better and faster spec. Find Windows cheaper and a cheaper case, and you could shave £75 - £100 off. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Ron-ski/saved/dDqZZL Personally after having bought an overclocked CPU and motherboard bundle many years ago from Scan and finding the voltage way over the top I'd never buy a built PC from them, used them many time for parts though.

I got exactly the same last year for £1240 even that was to much but i couldn’t be bothered to build one.

Freezing cold. Spec is weak

A daft question....can the RGB on cases like this be turned off ? I can't stand RGB fans/lighting and would much prefer a plain look to my case.

Great value bundle

The B550 boards are out in 3 weeks which have limited PCIe 4.0, the prices are rumoured to start at £100 but we'll see... Coupled with the 3300X then it should be a winner

I think this is the best price to performance system for your use case. An argument could be made for investing more in a MB with PCIE 4 support though this costs too much currently and I think it will be a long time before this actually makes much of a difference. AMD have said they will continue to add B450 support to their next gen CPUs though I don't see why people care about this especially from our "r/patientgamer" standpoint where we aren't upgrading every year or so.

Yes. Not sure for how long though. The B450 chipset should run the new ryzen 5 out of the box , but there are a few chipsets out just now that are compatible with this , which one stays the course ? dont know , but the B450 has been around for a couple of years now...the X370 and 470 chipsets are newer I think , but are aimed more at the overclocking market ? ( unsure).

I have the HP Envy x360 15" with AMD Ryzen 3700U 512SSD. Massive speed difference in terms of boot up and data transferring USB 3.1, I use for audio editing, photoshop and creating/uploading work resources to work server does the job brilliantly. This is way quicker and quieter than my old HP Pavilion 15". I Checked out the HP Envy 13 and thank godness I did as it is a lot smaller than you think.

I have the 2019 model of this and it’s great fast boot up face recognition sign in it’s quick it’s not plasticy as some comments say but the best part is it’s weight 1.1kg best laptop I have ever owned!

I got the 15inch version of this a couple of years ago. I wish I got the smaller one.

Thanks..

Trackpad is awful on the envy! mostly due to its plastic body. :S

What is the differance from the memory upgrade and corsair vengence memory upgrade

This was the logic I applied in buying the 3600 & a 212 instead of the 3600X.

Litterally didnt read what i said. I said its fine and i would not of changed it. (y) All your comments are very negative with hardly any context, cheer up pal.

The pro vdh max is a better board

Thank you so much for your help! I was personally looking at this MB, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07W838JXD/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_X9K0EbB47E8XS I have that SSD already (y) . I thought maybe a cheaper PSU? PSU supply is very limited at the moment. Nice case! I was thinking of building into an ITX case but they are much more for the small size factor

Now is time to play during the lockdown. When prices go down there will be no time to play...

3800X is a speed boost, 3900X gives you a few more cores. If your a streamer, i would def go for 3900X

Tell that to my old 1300X (my buddy still runs it with a ATI (excited) 590 gr8 underestimated GPU BTW).) Just over 4GHz all cores (it never got the chance to use the 'Boost' setting) Gaming it kicks a 1600 in most games @1080P

Well I did it - 3900x coming tomorrow. Anything I should know before hand? I’m on the latest bios already. My g skill flare b-die ram always hit a ceiling at 3200mhz with my 1600x on the fast preset using the dram calculator but now that I’m stepping up I’m hoping to get 3466mhz (the max x370 prime pro can support). If anyone has any experience with this I’d love to hear.

Can't remember if the x370 is the board that will support the 3000 series graphics cards. If so, probably worth a keep for now. The Amazon prices for the 3900x have been randomly going up and down recently. Highest I've seen is £430. Lowest (that looked legit) £370. But I think it'll even drop lower then £370 when the new processors come out in July so I might wait until then. Keep an eye out for the price drops as they are random! Also be careful of weird sellers as one today was selling the 3900x for £290 which doesn't sound legit at all lmao. Good luck lmao. A friend of mine was saying if it drops below £370 then that's probably the best you'll get. But £370 isn't too bad either :D

Go Go to Unidays website search for Lenovo and click activate up to 20% student discount this will take you to Lenovo education store where the discount is applied.

I have a Unidays account, but I can't create an account for the Lenovo website with the same email. Any idea how or what I am doing wrong?

gotcha, yeah userbench has recently become quite a bias and hostile site, quite a shame as it once was a great starting point for getting a general idea of what performance you should expect. Zen and its successors have been the greatest development computing this decade. the 4000 series mobile chips are something else.

No it was to you, sorry I didn’t understand your comment though, I thought you were agreeing that the specs were poor rather than that benchmarking site

Ah gotcha, thanks for clarifying

Was very tempted to get this, but the screen is too much of a hit and miss for me. The screen doesn't get lit up nearly half as much as I would like, fans get loud, so be prepared if using it in the bed. These few niggles along with only a 4800H, and a QWERTZ kayboard, mean I must turn this one down too. Still waiting for my perfect laptop. Voting hot as its still a good deal for those looking for a 2060 4800H 144Hz beast.

how many points you get in 3dmark firestrike? thx I am thinking about either 3700x or 4800H and rtx2060

add on 20% vat and you have your £1200 price, US prices are without sales tax which varies by state.

There are two versions of the screen on these the bad one is the Panda which has bad colour reproduction and blurring. Some have had an AU optics panel fitted which is much better but hard to get hold off. Unfortunately it’s a panel lottery if you get the better screen.

Pretty much just Y and Z swapped. There may be labels for European characters but you can ignore them. I used a qwertz keyboard on a laptop for long periods with no problems.

The handy thing about ryzen chips is they come with the thermal paste already on the cooler and you're ready to go. This comment is not really directed at you just the casual reader who is on the fence about building one. Another thing you can do by the way is buy small reusable heat transfer mats which do as good a job as thermal paste pretty much and the advantage is that you can attach your cooler and take it apart as many times as you like without spreading paste around and worrying about that crap. All the best.

This conversation suddenly got a whole lot more balanced. All it took was a couple of people coming along with their own opinions to add to it. If you want a job done right etc etc The only reason to pay someone to do it is for convenience. Bare in mind they are not some expert they are just a normal person like anyone else and prone to human error.

I got a pre built system (not this company) about 5 years ago because it was working out a little cheaper. A couple of issues - they put the nasty blower style gpu in. The noise was so irritating that I had to swap to an aftermarket cooler. So check exactly what they are going to give you. Secondly and more importantly the CPU kept over heating and I didn't know why. After loads of troubleshooting I realised they hadn't seated the cpu cooler properly, it was tilted so that only a small part of the cooler was in direct contact. After all the fuss it would have been better for me just to do it myself. FYI the worst part of the build for me is adding the coolers! You not only need to use thermal paste but it's the part that requires the most forces.

You over estimate many people's abilities and intelligence. Voila, Brexit.

most folks fear the cpu into the MB, which is one of the easiest things to do, but at the same time, IF something does go wrong, it can also be one of the most expensive and thats from user feedback, so a good option of them with this fear is the combo packages, which sometimes can be a little advantage occasional to get one and at cost, most times it isnt, nothing decent in this area atm, but will need to recheck, use to be some positive ones, but then it went sour half way though lockdown. if i had to list the most hardest part in order of easy to hardest in regards to doing it for myself and ive built tons of systems, some folks would say cable management but thats a challenge i enjoy (yeah im weird..).. for me its prob the mb to case, ive gone though that many cases, and the same bleeding cases over n over ! cant they get the screw holes lined up bloody right at times!. thats prob the most bit i hate, that thought, is this specific case going to go sweet as the last one or going to be a biatch cos some baboon has knocked the machine what predrills it lol.. that person prob worked for MFI what keeps haunting me occasional lol..

Many thanks.

The Asrock one at about £55 is nice, only limitations are the RGB header, if u want that then go for something like DS3H. all B450 will be perfectly fine to upgrade, these are good budgets, however the MSI PRO VDH a little more with the increase in BIOs size, perhaps maybe that little bit more inclined for zen3.... that was last weeks debate, B450 not getting zen3, but it didnt add up as msi max b450 have 32mb bios, over the other b450 16mb but the announced 16mb bios on some x570 were also inc.. but amd back track, but its still worth that consideration... "peace of mind".. so the vdh would not be a wrong choice. these £55-70....

What budget motherboard with a little CPU upgradability would you recommend for this APU please? Many thanks for posting.

An i3 9100.

It's also based on 2nd generation Ryzen and not 3rd generation despite the naming scheme.

"It's the fastest integrated GPU there is cough Cough (not virus related) Intel skull Trail VEga-m gfx , also AFAIK the mobile APUS, eg 4800HS might beat this. I like these chips tho as everything is in one package .. Waiting to see what the 4000 is like, see if the mid-range APU can outgun an GTX960. ALso would like to see the low wattage versions GE.

I’m inclined to agree that this CPU has been made a bit redundant at this price, kneecapped by the 1600 AF on the cheaper side and 3300X on the pricier side. Yes you will need a discrete GPU but as mentioned refurb RX 570s have been around the £70-80. If you absolutely must go for an APU, the 3200G is the more compelling option with a view to a GPU upgrade in the future. But as also mentioned, you’re probably better waiting to see what the new gen APUs look like. Even then, AMD are always likely to artificially limit what their APUs can offer on the graphics side; given Nvidia dominate the high end GPU market and AMD mainly competes in the low to mid range, all the AMD APUs would be doing is stealing sales from their own GPU division. In short: this is a good price, but only go down the APU route if you really have to.

It's ironic really, my dual system case is pretty huge but the ITX area is still a bit cramped. I could go non APU but then it means paying for a riser cable, a basic gfx card, and aftermarket low profile/AIO cooling as the standard Wraith cooler wouldn't fit. A good Ryzen 4000 APU would makes things much easier... ;)

Yes, that's understandable. It's a good chip in it's own right but you are essentially paying extra for those graphics - makes sense if you're trying to do an ITX build or cheap gaming system with minimal parts and clutter. Looks like you'll have the options for huge gains with 4000-series - extra cores, more efficient, etc. I've had Intel until recently but AMD has literally taken the chip world by storm - back in 2016 when they announced Zen I don't think anyone believed them after years of horrible Bulldozer rubbish, this is basically their equivalent to Intel's Core 2.

Used to be around £110 - cold From me as you can have 3600 for £139...

Also, If you eventually don't feel like you need or like the watch - it sells on eBay for about £50. I've got a watch that I'm already fond of, so recently sold mine under the eBay £1 fee thing for £45. Just hoping it turns up on time 🤭

Might I suggest the mute/ignore option. It's more helpful to read 'hidden content' than to be reminded that something with a lower build quality, fewer extras and cheaper components can often cost less. For me, the build quality of laptops of this ilk is what appeals to me. Rugged and unlikely to fall apart after a few months use. Priceless.

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Thank you for your service (y)

No worries - please see my well-like post for evidence that many HUKD users find it helpful to be informed that the Ryzen 5 3500u 256gb 8gb is not a stand-out spec in this price range. Up to you to decide if the improvements over those models (I believe build quality and display are the two mentioned) are worth the £100-200-250 extra price tag. Not sure why you keep replying tbh especially if you’re bored! Either you value those extra features at that higher price tag - in which case I assume you’ve bought - and if not then I guess you haven’t. It’s worthwhile pointing out that the core specs at the heart of this machine can be found in many much cheaper models.