Updated: AMD's 12-Core Ryzen 9 3900X As Low As $399 With These Red Hot Deals

by Brandon Hill — Tuesday, March 03, 2020, 11:47 AM EDT

We've been seeing quite a few AMD Ryzen 3000 deals make their way through across the news desk over the past few weeks, but most of the best ones have been limited to MicroCenter. While MicroCenter's pricing is stellar, not everyone has a store in their state. Today, we've got two deals that everyone can partake in, and it involves the burly Ryzen 9 3900X processor.

Things first heated up with Walmart, which is selling the processor (normally retailing for $499) at a low $419.99. That's an $80 discount off the regular price, which is a smoking hot deal in our books.

Up until that point, Amazon had been selling the same processor for $460. But once the retailer caught word that Walmart was grabbing some attention with lower pricing; it matched the $419.99 price as well. So now, you can have your pick of which retailer to purchase it from. Walmart says that the processor will arrive on your doorstep (with free shipping) on March 5^th. Amazon, however, says that the processor will be in stock on March 4^th (with free Prime delivery). If you have an Amazon Prime credit card, you can save an extra 5%, which drops the price (pre-tax) to $398.99

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread CPU with Wraith Cooler: $419.99 @ Amazon
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread CPU with Wraith Cooler: $419.99 @ Walmart

The Ryzen 9 3900X is a 12-core/24-thread 7nm Zen 2-based processor with a 3.8GHz base clock and a max boost clock of 4.6GHz. The processor has a total of 64MB L3 cache, a TDP of 105 watts, and supports motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset. Besides providing native support for Ryzen 3000 motherboards and DDR4-3200 memory, X570 motherboards also support the PCIe 4.0 interface.

At this point, we don't know how long this little price war between Walmart and Amazon is going to last, so it’d be best if strike while the iron is hot with the deal.

Updated 3/3/2020 @ 11:47AM
MicroCenter has now dropped the price of the the Ryzen 9 3900X to a low $399.99, but it is only available in-store "while supplies last".

Tags: deals, AMD, Amazon, walmart, (nasdaq:amd), ryzen 9 3900x

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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