I saw the new Ryzen 3 1200 selling on eBay for £111.60, frowned as it had been reviewed at £105, then saw it was the same on Amazon, then found ebuyer bettered both, breaking the £100 price barrier. The also new Ryzen 3 1300x reviews better than the 1200 for around £30 more, if you don't want to overclock or the motherboard you chose doesn't support overclocking, but the 1200 can be overclocked to a similar level and overclocked a bit even with the included fairly-quiet Wraith cooler.

Reviews and benchmarks are all over the place, so to speak, with some saying it betters or comes close to the much more expensive i5 7400 in some games depending on which memory and motherboard you partner both with, others disagreeing with that and saying it makes more sense to compare it with Intel's dual core hyperthreaded i3 7100 and still others saying if purely gaming go for the dual core but still hyper threaded Pentium G4560, though with the G4560 being near unavailable at the moment and considerably more expensive than it was, the G4600 seems a better choice compared to it, as it has better integrated graphics than the otherwise very slightly slower G4560. Neither Ryzen CPU has integrated graphics.

Intel's strength remains its strong single core performance and a lot of programs and games benefit from that, whereas in some productivity programs and games, the Ryzen's multicores show their strength and the reasonably low power draw of the R3 1200 gets a lot of mentions. In other words, if on a budget, your choice comes down to how you want to use your computer. The Ryzen part is arguably the best all rounder for a budget multi purpose build, especially if you want to take advantage of overclocking. I hope I have summarised the reviews fairly well, I am sure others will chime in. At the time of writing, I am unaware of any plans from Intel to cut prices.

Getting back on deal topic, £98.48 is the cheapest I have been able to find it.