These days the Ryzen 3000 CPUs are the talk of the town and why wouldn’t they be, they are set to hit shelves in less than 24 hours. However, those of you looking for great deals and don’t mind buying a last gen processor, this is the best time to go hunting. Luckily for you, we’ve found an unbeatable offer, one that includes the Ryzen 5 2600X and three months of Xbox Game Pass for just $159. That’s a whole $100 less than the initial price of $259!
The AMD Ryzen 5 2600X is based on the 12nm Zen+ architecture and while slower than competing i5s in single-threaded tasks like gaming, it shines in multi-core workloads such as content creation, encoding, video editing, etc. It packs six cores and twelve threads, courtesy of SMT, and has a max boost clock of 4.2GHz. It can easily be overclocked to 4.5GHz and when paired with fast memory it offers performance comparable to any competing Intel chip.
As for the Xbox Game Pass, it gives you access to all of the games curated by Microsoft for the console sub. The only difference is that you get it on PC via the Microsoft Store. This deal gives you
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