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AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPUs Get Major Price Cuts, Up to 25 Percent:
AMD's Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors are two years old, but the Zen 3 chips are still among some of the best CPUs on the market. If you're looking for your next upgrade, U.S. retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Micro Center, and Newegg, are currently selling the Ryzen 5000 lineup at reduced prices.
The Ryzen 5000 price cuts are probably an answer to the recently released Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake product stack that has helped Intel recover market share in the Japanese and German markets. While Ryzen 5000 still dominates the list of best-selling processors on Amazon and Newegg, Alder Lake has been creeping up to the Zen 3 parts. For example, the Core i7-12700KF is the seventh best-selling chip on Amazon, whereas the Core i7-12700K is in the third spot on Newegg's charts. Moreover, it's that time of the year when retailers start making space for the next wave of processors.
AMD has already confirmed that Ryzen 7000 (Raphael), Ryzen 5000's successor, will hit the market in the second half of the year, so retailers have likely started to offload Ryzen 5000 parts. Ryzen 7000 lives on the completely new AM5 platform with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support. The transition to the AM5 socket means consumers will have to invest in a new motherboard, although the topic of the memory remains in the air. Intel's Alder Lake supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory modules, but AMD hasn't confirmed if Ryzen 7000 will also have hybrid memory support.
The story continues with a chart of prices for various models and has links to vendors, too.
Random question: Is your primary computer a desktop or a laptop? I've been laptop-only for the last 15-20 years -- my computing needs have been relatively modest.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Friday March 04 2022, @01:49AM
Yes, agreed on all points. Including that I'm a touch-typist and used to loath almost all keyboards except the very tactile clacky older IBM ones.
Over the past 20+ years I've slowly gotten (mostly been given, this very one came out of someone's dustbin, long story) laptops and adapted. Yes, you too will someday be assimilated!
But seriously, portability became the biggest benefit. In fact this very one was going to be mostly for audio / video recording / editing, as it has a built-in "FireWire" IEEE 1394 port that works well with cameras and multi-channel audio A/D interfaces I have. I've done some A/V with it, but less and less, so it just kind of became my mainstream GP computer.
Re screens: I've never had a large desktop screen- maybe 19" 4x3 is the biggest, and rarely set up dual monitors, although often use dual setups at some work places. I'm more apt to have several machines running and use a KVM switch.
This (Dell) laptop is a 15.4" screen, which isn't bad. It was originally 1440x900, but I had another Dell (also trashpicked, very pretty) that had a smashed screen. So I put the 1440x900 in the other Dell, and got a 1680 x 1050 for this one. So resolution is pretty good. I've gotten used to tiny icons, and made most of them a bit bigger. It has 4 GB RAM (which is plenty for me) and 1 TB SSD.
I have some bigger (17"+), Core i5, that I just haven't had the need to invest time and effort to set up and use, but probably someday soon.
Hmmm. Work. My main employer mentioned buying me a laptop. My worry is I'll get it all customized and comfortable with it, then have to give it back when I leave. Also, it will likely be Win 10 or 11. Bleackkkk. I know it, but I can only use it if I can definitively turn off all updates and other background communication, as I have limited GB / month available and it irritates me, seems like it should be criminal, for software to decide to just start downloading things whenever it feels like it. At least in phones you can somewhat limit what they download over cell data, and then do bigger downloads and updates through WiFi.