Now’s a great time to pick-up an AMD processor as the basis for a sweet (and affordable) PC build. Amazon and Walmart just dropped the prices on select AMD Ryzen 5 and 7 CPUs. Even better, all three processors mentioned below are part of AMD’s 50th anniversary celebration, meaning you get Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and World War Z for free with your purchase.
First up: The Ryzen 7 2700 for $195 at Walmart. This is one of those “see price in cart” deals, and you’ll have to supply your name and email address as part of the process. But a sub-$200 price for a Ryzen 7 2700 is stupendous, since prices for the CPU usually hover around $220 to $240. This chip features 8 cores, 16 threads, a base clock of 3.2GHz, and a boost clock of 4.1GHz. It absolutely screams when doing heavy productivity tasks, and it’ll be a champ for games too.
AMD’s six-core CPUs are getting the fire sale treatment too, with the Ryzen 5 2600 going for $145 on Amazon. That’s the all-time low for this processor on the site, and the last time it was this affordable was around the holiday season in 2018. Finally, there’s the Ryzen 5 2600X for $160 on Amazon. Again, this is the all-time low for this processor. The previous best was $170.