Good price, but I think the 6 core 1600 is the sweet spot for the ryzen 5 line up, worth the extra 30 for 6 cores imo. If you want quad core (but only quad thread) then save some money and oc an r3 1200.
However for someone that doesn't wanna oc this is a great chip and great price coupled with the fact you could pair it with a320 (they don't support over clocking) to save even more money. So hot from me :thumbsup:

Great deal :sunglasses:   Thanks OP 

5 years later and it's slightly worse than an old 3770k. I thought by now we would have vastly superior chips for about £100. CPU progression seems to be slowing.

Yep still on my i7 2600k and wanting to update but why bother

For a 1500x it's a good price so hot from me.

However as you can OC all the Ryzen chips to 3.8-4.0 GHz using the bundled cooler I don't really see the point of this.

IMHO the best chips seem to be:
1200 (Quad core) - £105
1600 (Hex core) - £189
1700 (Octo core) - £275

Are these the kinder surprise ones? When you get the box you get a suprise, it's another chip?. For those that don't know, some 3rd party sellers/Amazon were selling fake products.