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I'm glad you came along. Had I bought a 3800x, It would've arrived buy Monday 14th. After reading the scan post you mentioned it makes more sense to wait for that Monday and buy the cpu (if possible) then

I have a 5600x basically bought on Novatech but they didn't accept Irish registered cards, had to cancel the order

There's one store at the otherside of the country that has a 3800x. Similarly priced to the amazon listing. The Amazon also includes a code for Far Cry 6 when it's out

R I hear you. I'd take your points into consideration. My thanks

Unfortunately not. I'm based in Ireland. Ireland don't have any good and cheap pc part retailers hence the usage of uk pcpartpicker

This was probably posted quite a few times but I hope you can bear with me with a question many new builders may have. Especially now. I have recently begun my pc build journey and I've reached a point where I need to decide what AMD cpu to buy. Every other part I have except the gpu but i'll get into that later. Like a lot of people right now, I want a zen 3 cpu but stock is a huge issue. I don't want to spend every moment of my day looking for a 5600x to be in stock and then to be beaten by bots or other buyers. The performance to cost ratio is what is attracts me to the 5600x. I've expanded my search for cpus and did some user benchmark comparisons and saw that the Ryzen 7 3800x/3800xt was very close to the performance to the 5600x. The price isn't placed to much higher over the MSRP of the 5600x. I should probably reach my point. I want some advice from builders to tell me whether to wait and stress myself to get the 5600x ASAP or to say screw it and go for the 3800x/xt. Like I mentioned above, I don't have the gpu yet but it seems that the RTX 3070 and the new RTX 3060ti is coming in stock much more often than the amd cpus. If get this cpu, I can use my ancient AMD Radeon HD 6670 to at least have a functioning pc until I get the aforementioned gfx cards. The Build PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor £311.51 @ Overclockers.co.uk CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12A 60.09 CFM CPU Cooler Purchased For £0.00 Motherboard Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard Purchased For £0.00 Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory Purchased For £0.00 Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB EAGLE Video Card £602.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk Case Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case Purchased For £0.00 Power Supply Corsair RMx White (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Purchased For £0.00 Case Fan Corsair ML120 75 CFM 120 mm Fans 2-Pack Purchased For £0.00 Case Fan Corsair ML120 75 CFM 120 mm Fans 2-Pack Purchased For £0.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £914.46 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-04 13:44 GMT+0000 Note: I have more than enough storage space on hand already Any and all help would be amazing and I know that the community can help anyone and their endeavours.

Thank you so much to those who helped and are still willing to work out some kinks(if any). The more advice the better, let's get it perfect! I wanted to note aswell to those helping me out that I wish to wait until Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and try get some price drops. After AMD's reveal it's starting to look like team red will take the lead when it comes to graphical performance so that may be the replacement for the Nvidia GFX card. 5000 series cpus are dropping sooner that I realised so buying a Zen 3 cpu may also replace the wish for a Zen 2 cpu.

Got it. I already planned to wait till Black Friday/ Cyber Monday sales and see if I can get some parts for cheaper. It may be that the R5 3000 series drops in price. Just a thought

Yeah I saw the AMD reveal yesterday. I want to spread out my purchases a little bit while leaving the gfx card for last. Leaves me room to decide what to buy when the times comes

Budget is 1500ish euros

I appreciate the help. Seriously. I made a new build following some recommendations from you and others. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor £209.58 @ Aria PC CPU Cooler ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler £37.73 @ Overclockers.co.uk Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING B550-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard £137.40 @ Alza Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £71.98 @ Amazon UK Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £87.42 @ CCL Computers Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £101.59 @ Amazon UK Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB VENTUS 3X OC Video Card £549.99 @ Ebuyer Case Phanteks Eclipse P360X ATX Mid Tower Case £64.99 @ AWD-IT Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £90.22 @ CCL Computers Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1350.90 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-10-29 09:20 GMT+0000

AIO - Waste of money, got it. I posted an updated list with a different mobo

I hear you. I've posted another build, let me know your thoughts

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/YYp3t8

I'm listening to all the replies and I seriously appreciate the advice and the help. You guys are seriously the best. I'm hearing AIO is a waste of money on R5 so that's a start. Motherboard also seems to be a waste of money too. I'll tinker the list and make some compromises.