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everyone talks about how great AMD CPUs

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are but according to the steam Hardware survey Intel is still the one holding

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the bulk of the ground in the CPU War but if you talk to any Enthusiast

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they'll gush on and on about how much they love AMD CPUs so just what in the

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ever Goblin parting is everyone actually

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buying on Amazon right now oh it is AMD

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it's all AMD with even two generation

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old ryzen chips pitching in to kick Intel completely out of the top 10 list

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and 3D vcash taking every spot on the

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podium which wait speaking of two

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generation old chips now am4 is on top again with all the holiday sales going

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on right now the only constant is Intel's complete absence at the top of

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the sales charts with only their older generation selling at all meaning that

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the steam Hardware survey is based on anci sales and things are shifting Big

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Time yikes so let's break down the chips y'all are buying and talk about why and

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when we first sat down to look at CPU sales Trends the 9800 x3d was

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comfortably in first place thanks to the Feeding Frenzy that took place after

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what was arguably the most exciting gaming CPU launch in the last 2 and 1/2

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years but now it's completely out of

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stock and it's being scalped hard even on non-auction sites like Amazon making

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matters worse the word on the street is that a significant restock of this thing

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isn't expected until January so for

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anyone who was hoping to put the atomic number 14 under the Christmas tree this

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year that ain't going to cut it so how's

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option two looking here actually not too bad after all the 7800 x3d was in first

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place for quite a while before the new hotness came along and it's pretty

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similar to the new one both of them feature eight full fat cores and 16

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threads 96 MB of level three cache it's

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just that the newer 9800 X3 runs faster

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in its base and boost clocks and has some generational IPC uplift thanks to

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Zen 5 processing it is also overclockable but let's be real it's not

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like the old hat was so slow that you needed to overclock It Anyway the 7800

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x3d is not just pretty fast though it is

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straight up the best rated item that we have ever featured in this series with

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an absolutely unbelievable 4.9 Stars

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sure that is based on fewer ratings than the Beloved 3600 non X that we featured

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last time around but it's also got a lot more competition from other gaming chips

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like the 5700 x3d which is here in third spot we'll talk about that later though

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because right now I want to know what a one-star review even looks like when it

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only makes up about 2% of the overall reviews let's see Billy had memory

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controller issues that's no good Ben hated Amazon's customer service a few

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people had their chips die pun intended anywhere from a few weeks to a few

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months after purchase there's the odd product missing scam and then multiple

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others were upset that they didn't get a Jedi Survivor or avatar game code along

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with their product so wow even the

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people who were pissed about this thing were mostly pretty happy with the actual

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processor as for the overwhelmingly good reviews it's basically an endlessly

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scrolling page of titles like amazing CPU best gaming CPU on the market and

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huge upgrade our own review when it came out boiled down to yeah it's the best

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gaming CPU on the market it's just that it's kind of expensive and unfortunately

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it still is even though it's been replaced in AMD's product lineup see

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here's the thing most of the time when the new generation comes out the last

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generation goes on sale but the 7800 x3d

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is still selling for $480 about $30 over MSRP which has AMD

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kind of looking like that smug Facebook Market Marketplace seller saying no low

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balls I know what I've got and the unfortunate part is AMD is not wrong

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when we tested the 9800 X 3D more recently it clearly beat its predecessor

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which has contributed to its gangbuster sales but the thing is it didn't beat it

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by as much as some people hoped at least outside of extreme examples like rocket

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league and Stellaris and the reality is

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unless you are competitively gaming at 1080P and you need a chip that does well

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enough and productivity there are other cheaper options remember that 5700x 3D

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that I mentioned earlier it goes for as little as

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$200 that is less than half of what you'll pay for an am5 x3d chip I mean

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sure am4 is a dead platform but it's

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also a significantly cheaper platform especially if you're willing to pick up

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some used parts like a motherboard and ddr4 memory in fact you could build most

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of your new to you PC for about the

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price of just one of our best-selling chips which frees up more of your budget

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for what really matters for a gaming PC the

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GPU as we saw during our review of the 9800 x3d even with the fastest GPU on

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the market for now anyway once you go past 1080p the bottleneck swings hard

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toward the GPU and the affordability of good 1440p gaming monitors and 4K 120 HZ

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TVs has never been better so if you want a great gaming experience today day

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without wasting a dollar am4 plus a

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better display is kind of still my go-to but if you want to be able to

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upgrade your system without doing a complete rebuild entrylevel am5 has some

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standout deals right now as well with a ryzen 7 7700x going for just

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$267 at the time of filming that's still

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an 8 core 16 thread processor but at

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only a little over half the price of the 7800 X3 D you are going to give up some

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gaming performance even at higher resolutions and settings but assuming

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let's say 1,000 budget that gives you

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over $200 extra to throw at your GPU or

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spend on a nicer monitor or hey maybe a desk upgrade like this Northern Lights

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desk pad from LTD store.com now so far most of this wasn't much of a surprise

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lots of people want the best of the best

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and for everyone else bang for the buck chips well those are a great choice too

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but something that did surprise me was just how different the sales mix looks

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between AMD's X CPUs and they're more

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budget friendly non-x CPUs as I

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mentioned before the last time we did this the chip we featured was the ryzen

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5 3600 to date that has over

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43,000 ratings while the 3600 x has

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barely over 12,000 to be clear 12,000

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ratings that's a lot they were both great chips but AMD had a big problem

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when it came to selling the X it was $50

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more for a performance difference that ended up being mostly theoretical Now

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Intel solved this problem within their lineup by artificially limiting

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overclocking and boost speeds on their nonk CPUs but AMD at least at the time

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took a more consumer friendly approach and left their entire lineup

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unlocked well seems like AMD may have

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learned learned a lesson from all of that because now a few Generations later

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non-x versions just aren't available

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alongside their x-r Partners at launch instead AMD launches the beefy version

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with full Fanfare then quietly releases

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the exess variant later how much later

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well seems like that depends when am5 debuted eager customers were stuck

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waiting months if they wanted to save a buck on a slightly slower 7,000 series

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and as for 9,000 it'll be December by the time this video

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goes live and we haven't seen so much as a rumored release date for non-x 9000

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variants I guess that's what happens when the closest thing to a competing

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