The itch to upgrade my PC got to me sooner than I thought.
With the looming announcement of Zen 3 this week, I thought I'd get ahead and buy an older CPU while reviews, availability and sales settle down for the new CPUs. I'm looking for the equivalent of the Ryzen 9 3900X which might be called the Ryzen 9 5900X from the looks of it.
With the Nvidia launch being problematic with stock availability I didn't want to experience that scenario and went ahead snagging deals as they came.
I got a used Ryzen 7 2700X for $120 to tide me over. I'll be getting the newer Ryzen 9 a few months down the line.
Got a new board, RAM and an NVMe SSD.
List is:
-Ryzen 7 2700X with Wraith Stealth cooler
-MSI Tomahawk X570 (This board is in so much demand, it's crazy I was able to get for the retail price, has high end components usually found on a $300-400 board)
-G.Skill 64 GB 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM (Overkill but had a great deal on it)
-Sabrent Rocket Q 2 TB NVMe Gen 3 PCIe SSD (speeds of 3200 MB/s (read) and 2900 MB/s (write))!
I've retained the rest (Video Card, Monitors, case, keyboard, etc..)
Even though the CPU is from 2018, it's crazy fast!