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for those who prefer tech over turkey not that I blame you this video is for you we're gonna focus primarily on the AMD Rison platform not because I was paid to do this in fact this video was not been sponsored by anybody I didn't receive the CPUs from AMD but these are for a project that I'm working on you'll see that more in the future I also have some motherboards from MSI this one right here is the B 352 tomahawk Arctic board to see some sweet b-roll shots of that here soon but I wanted to preface this video by saying that I'm not being paid to say what I'm going to say in this video I just think that the rise in platform right now now is experiencing some really nice price cuts something you need to be looking out for upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals going to be really nice to see your I expect they'll be better than they were last year because we do finally have competition from AMD so I'm gonna slow it down a bit talk about where my friends in the United Kingdom Canada and the United States can find rising deals on Amazon and their respective Amazon sites also places like new egg and even in-store in shops like Micro Center a place which by the way includes usually a twenty or thirty dollar discount if you bundle a CPU and motherboard love that new PCBs now so I've got Amazon pulled up on my phone I'll also accompany this video with a few screen captures of just me kind of browsing through Amazon if you see anything you like check the video description I bet it's down there most processors on AMD cider down there a few Intel competitors as well and also be 350 and X 370 motherboards to accompany those rising CPUs starting first with the bottom of the barrel is the horizon 3 1200 CV this is a true quad-core CPU with overclocking support in mind you coming in at a whopping 100 US dollars and that is that's a really good price about 10 bucks cheaper than what it usually is and this is what I would recommend for somebody who has a really tight budget they want to spend maybe 60 to 70 bucks on a bare-bones be 350 motherboard and a CPU like this and maybe 80 bucks or so on an 8 gig kit of RAM which would be the bare minimum amount of RAM I'd recommend now with the expectation that you'd upgrade later on to 16 you can get a whole platform for about 2 to 300 bucks which is really good I would say in the current market because Ram prices are extremely high now step up from the r3 1200 is the arisin 3 1300 X and don't like the X deceive you yes exact same number of cores the r3 1200 adds just a higher out-of-the-box frequency which means that you get a higher IPC for things like gaming and multitasking in general both of these processors by the way come with the Wraith stealth cooler which is actually a decent cooler out of the box for these low powered chips I would say you'd be ok with you know modest overclocks using that raid stealth cooler for either these CPUs it also keeps the cost down so it's nice that you have those included by the way looks like some of the cheapest be 350 boards you could buy to accompany those cheap AMD CPUs would run you about 65 bucks or so here's one from MSI looks decent I reviewed one very similar that but this is in the micro ATX form factor so it might not look the best in a mid-sized Tower which is what most people today use but at least you're getting it for a really good price the next AMD risin processor I would recommend in the current market is the horizon 5 1500 X this is the best four core multi-threaded CPU you can buy from AMD's Verizon lineup currently and it's gonna run about 165 US dollars which in today's market is again not bad at all we're getting discounted here about 20 bucks in gaming expect the CPU to run you around the lock to i-5 sky and Kaiba Lake territories still excellent i-5 are still excellent gamers even though they have four cores good thing about the risin 5 1500 X's you get that multi-threading support as well so you can do extra things like streaming in the background or rendering a video or something crazy you could certainly handle that task much easier with multi-threading support enabled you don't have that on modern I 5 CPUs on Intel side now the next big step for risin is the r5 1600 packing six cores and twelve threads so we still have multi 30 support we just have two extra physical cores which means multiplying it by two we have four extra threads to work with the thing is though I don't have a risin 5 1600 CPU anymore because I gave that one away in a giveaway about 2 or 3 months ago so you just have to look at me when I talk about this one I think that for 189 bucks really anything under $200 is a really great price for the r5 1600 it is what I would regard as the best all-around CPU for the money I talk about in a more detail right here benchmarks are also in this video lastly taking a step into the big leagues we have the horizon 7 series of 1,700 1,700 X and 1,800 X for all of these CPUs by the way I recommend you could get away with be 350 boards but I recommend X 370 boards just for that extra overclocking Headroom if anything does change on a UEFI that allows for extra of 100 200 megahertz that added stability especially with RAM which can influence frame rates in game the r7 1700 by the way does come with the Wraith spire LED cooler at around two hundred and seventy bucks which is a really good price I wouldn't recommend sticking with the stock cooler I mean you could temporarily it is nice that you get it there and it's actually good looking cooler considering it's a stock one but I would recommend thing and a i/o on there or a larger air core to get yourself that extra overclocking Headroom the CPU will reach about 3.8 to 3.9 gigahertz on air easily with even a be 350 board most of these boards are gonna overclock about the same I would say 4x 370 maybe get another 100 200 megahertz if that I found in my experience though that most boards are within a hundred megahertz of each other so because Verizon is a bit stubborn when it comes to overclocking I would say that for horizon 7 1700 get yourself one of the cheaper X 370 boards just because you're you know budget-conscious if you're going for a 1700 versus something like an 1800 X but if you're gonna spend that much money on an 1800 X which mind you is still a decent price right now then go all out and get yourself the best X seventy bored you can buy I have that info by the way linked in the video description now this is interesting I wasn't planning on discussing red ripper much I don't feel like it pertains to a majority of my viewing audience you guys are mostly gamers and content creators and even thread Ripper is overkill for most of that 16 cores really and 300 bucks pretty pricey but it's still considerably cheaper than what Intel offers and the sky like X and kbx platforms so if you're gonna get something with that many cores maybe you're a developer or some sort you could use all the horsepower that these cores can offer then this is an option for you the 1950 X is right now on sale for eight hundred dollars it's two hundred dollars down from its regular price the motherboards will cost you and unfortunately I can't say much about the stability of these boards because I haven't actually tested it the record for CPU but if you know that you need the cores then this is where I would go I just go with the full fledged 1950 X right now it's probably not gonna be much cheaper than that for the time being go ahead and buy one now if you like it I've link below in the description along with a board manufacturer that I personally trust now went to end this video by thanking not only AMD for sending out the CPUs for I'll be in an unrelated video we'll get to that soon but also MSI for sending to tomahawk be 350 boards these boards are actually pretty cheap I was surprised you can get this board right now for around eighty to ninety bucks really nice link in the description you can also get the black version if you think that fits your color scheme better I think this is one of the best value boards just from an aesthetic standpoint because I mean come on white PCB right look there has never been a better time to buy a rising CPU nor a rising a motherboard I'm focusing on AMD here because Intel is falling a bit behind in the price competitiveness category only because the locked intel SKUs from coffee lake don't have the accompanying boards we have Z 370 and that's it so you buy a lock skew you can't even use the unlocked chipset in the Z board because the CPU is locked so it's just kind of like what are they doing like what why would why would you even want to buy a lock to I 5 or a locked I 7 and throw it into an unlocked chipset board unless you could base clock overclocked something like we could do with skylight but as far as I'm aware that's not possible right now so in my opinion AMD is the way to go in this season look folks I just call it like I see it I've been pretty critical of rising in the past I've also been pretty critical of the fanboys and the hypes or pounding the platform I mean look I made plenty of enemies on reddit okay but I'm telling you right now the better value is on the red team currently it's just a it's a fact in my eyes I know you would see it everyone looks at money differently where value is but in my opinion the value right now is on the red team nothing's to stay there for quite a while at least until Intel and these these motherboard manufacturers roll out something other than a Z 370 motherboards but you think is crippling the non-case Q CPUs in the copy Lake lineup if you liked this video be sure to give this one a thumbs up thumbs down for the opposite click that subscribe button by the way if you haven't already and that bail notification icon so that you get notified when videos like these go alive also check out all the links in the video description they're tied to my Amazon affiliate 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