£4 cheaper? I'd rather spend the £4 and buy it from the UK. It would cost way more than £4 to send it back to Italy in the event of a return.

If you need to return it for a fault Amazon will provide a shipping label.

Nobody has a gun to your head, buy from Amazon UK. Fairly simple.

Dude, HUKD members once caused an 90% slow down in global bandwith because somebody found beans at Tesco with 3 shiny pence off. It reached 1000000000 degrees heat and was mentioned in the queens speech. True story

Given all the threats of divorce bill, etc, I would rather pay £5 extra to buy from UK and channel the VAT directly to our government.

Still got my core 2 duo here. Over 10 years old. I have a few ideas for my next system. A cheap Ryzen i3 1300x could be a good building block. With plan to switch to an 8 core chip a few years later as they come down in price. Albeit I like the idea of 6C and 12 thread chip (Future proof). I did a few builds on ukpartpicker and all my builds came in at circa £859 with the 1600 Ryzen chip. Of course this included an over priced Nvida 1060 with 6gb mem (£300). Plus decent power supply/case and a reasonable motherboard and 16gb ram. I could probably recycle parts to reduce costs. (Windows/dvd rw and SSD card.) With an r3/recycling of parts maybe circa £700-750.

I got a second option. A mates old machine. Say he got it 2 or so years back. i5 with 8gb ram and a 960gtx(? Not sure on the exact spec here.). I might be able to get that for £300 or less. Then upgrade a few years later.

My third option is my parents pc that just had a hard drive fail. (Loads of bad sectors.)I think this has an i3 or i5 in it but likely 7-8 years old. I have plenty of spare hard drives. I can also get hold of a R7 260x that a friend has for £30-40. I currently have a Radeon HD 5670. The GTX960. My current rig would not be large enough for a Nvida 1060.

So any upgrade I do will give me a big boost. The 4x1GB memory sticks on this machine are at best 800ddr2. My main objective is to be able to run games like Civ 5 and civ 6 on reasonable settings. (Currently not tried running/buying them.) So do you splash out or go budget on a few hundred quid. Then wait for the graphics card situation to die down. As long as the system can handle a graphics upgrade later I should be fine.

It's the best cheeky

Everytime amd promise superior performance and i fall for it to then get stung with bad performance. I finally swapped amd 8350 for a decent i5 for gaming purpose and now amd release this chip. Is this any good??

Im in the process of a new build ,have athlon4 core and Gtx 650 gti , 8 g of ram and can still play most games ,guess last build was about 4 yrs ago and then it was value , so looking at the best cpu s out there and graphics could be really expensive ,so going for a strong 8350 FXAMD 8 core chip that still has potential ,great MSI motherboard cost me £60 and shall pounce on a 1050 ti or fx 560 card as the prices are good and great performance as seen on You Tube . So basically this setup should last a while , will not cost the earth while the CPU wars go on ,mining interest becomes an old fad ,and ddr4 ram drops in price ,in a couple of years bag more bargains ! Always been an AMD fan and hope they continue releasing new models ,Whatever you get happy building everyone ! (highfive)

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Maple and pecan plait, surely?! :sunglasses:

The 1300x is a good chip according to reviews. It has good value per dollar and sits at a good price point that isn't shared by a better chip.

The 1200 is not a good value/money proposition, as it's too close to the G4560 in performance.

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Intel-Pentium-G4560-3-5GHz-Processor/product/B01N7U18M1?context=search

It's OOS from Amazon direct, but it was 50 for ages... I guess the price has went up to 60 for now, but I expect fluctuation...

The 1300x is looking stellar in reviews and now offers a good middle ground value at 130 quid.

http://www.ebuyer.com/784315-amd-ryzen-5-1600-6-core-am4-cpu-processor-with-wraith-spire-95w-yd1600bbaebox

Just bought this, click + collect next day for an extra £7.92

If I didn't have my 5820K i'd be all over this.

For £4 just get from the UK ?

Do not worry about gaming people because now that intel has had to release coffee lake the race for creating 6 core 12 thread optimized games is coming hard and fast, everybody will be using as much of the 12 threads as they can as we go forward and trying to patch games up, now that an i5 6core and i7 6c/12t, and two r5- 6c/12t & three r7- 8c/12t exists.

Find me one for £50? Only ones I cans are £70 minimum in stock, Scan have a preorder at £60. It's definitely an option, but I feel it depends if you're on a budget THAT strict saving for a little longer feels a better option, also whether or not you're happy to upgrade in a year or two (definitely feels like the 2c/4t design is suffering more than it used too vs 4c) factors into that choice heavily. Also, you miss out on a lot of features by going for the cheaper motherboard chipset (h110) on intels side - whereas AM4s B350 boards aren't much more than some H110 boards and is much more fully featured. Either way now is a crap time to build given storage/RAM/GPU prices regardless :laughing:

I'm not that knowledgeable in the this area ... I'll leave it to Linus: R3 1200/1300
According to him the R3 are better for non-gaming applications than the Pentium & i3 ... but fall slightly behind the i3 in gaming. However, when you over clock the R3 then the R3 & i3[non-K] are even in gaming.

I'm inclining to go with the R3 because it's quad core & unlocked.

In destiny 2s required specs this chip doesn't cut the mustard yet a 6 year old non k i5 does? Are AMD still that bad?

Yeah Ryzen 1200 model is below £100 elsewhere. 1600 model does have the extra cores and threads. So cheapest Ryzen chip is now getting towards half the price of this chip.

There is no currency conversion charge, however there is always currency cost in the difference in rates they use to convert.

Only 1 shiny £ more on Amazon uk.

I posted a deal when this CPU released back in May. I bought mine from Amazon.fr and had to return it to France due to being DoA. Just spend the extra £4 and avoid the hassle.

Plus currency costs? Plus the waranty in UK is different to France? Different laws on what the company is obliged to if something is damaged etc.

Also note AMD has launched the budget Ryzen 3 range today. From £109.99 on Amazon. Options for a 4 core, 4 thread chip. With option to upgrade in a few years time. Easy to OC to 3.9ghz.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-ryzen-3-1300x-cpu,review-33962.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-ryzen-3-1200-cpu-review

Given all the threats of divorce bill, etc, I would rather pay £5 extra to buy from UK and channel the VAT directly to our government.

Ok price not much of a saving but still, heat.

Found it funny that amazon don't have ryzen 3 in stock and the pre-order they have for the 1200 is £7 more (£105) than scan and overclockers ( £98 ) , guess amazon are at it again, I'm really glad these other retailers exist amazons pricing policy's are getting out of hand, I remember when they were the cheapest no matter where you looked, it's also worth note that while amazon dodge the tax system these other retailers manage just fine while providing btr prices, I find it harder and harder to shop with amazon there greed has no bounds.

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£4 cheaper? I'd rather spend the £4 and buy it from the UK. It would cost way more than £4 to send it back to Italy in the event of a return.