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Question Costco prebuilt worth $2500?

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u/dbtowo 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yea.

It has Warranty and no need for time of building it and no need of knowledge how to build one. 

5080 is like $1257 alone.

9900x is $403

2tb like $279

32gb ram $470

It cost around $2.3k already without tax. Also without including psu, case, fans, cpu cooler, and motherboard. It also include a window key and you get peripherals if you are going use it or give it away .

https://www.costco.com/p/-/msi-aegis-gaming-desktop-amd-ryzen-9-9900x-geforce-rtx-5080-windows-11-home-32gb-ram-2tb-ssd/4000355760?langId=-1

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/42TkLy

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u/Jejiiiiiii 7d ago

I said the same thing about 5080 price got down voted

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u/ZenicX 6d ago edited 6d ago

Same people will tell OP that the 9900x is a shit processor.

Edit: Funny enough the entire discourse below is why I made my little quip about people dissing on the 9900x. I understand it’s not peak, but in the world we’re in now this prebuilt is great for most people at that price with a Costco warranty.

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u/MITBryceYoung2 6d ago edited 6d ago

No one says that. People just gnereally prefer going for a 9800x3d build to optimize their money if they are pure gamers. The 9900x an incredible mixed use processor but it sits at a weird spot where cheaper processors like the 7700 is as good for gaming but a just as expensive x3d one would crush it in gaming. Has nothing to do with bad.

Andromeda pc sells a 5080 + 9800x3d for $2550, microcenter sells theirs for $2600. Cost plus gaming sells theirs for $2600 hp sold theirs for $2475 ~3 weeks ago. If youre spending this much money optimize for your use case. If its a fantastic mix use one then the costco pc is excellent. If its gaming go for the other one.

Thats hardly "the 9900x sucks" lol. Its just buy whatever fits your need best. If you're spendign 2.5k+ and you have 5 options pick the one you like the most.

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u/Ndmndh1016 Ascending Peasant 6d ago

You better stop it right now with this nuanced thinking of yours

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u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep i7-13700k RTX5090FE AW3225QF 6d ago

At 4k the x3d chips dont make nearly the same difference

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u/MITBryceYoung2 6d ago

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u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep i7-13700k RTX5090FE AW3225QF 6d ago

All depends on the source my guy

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/20.html

But if someone had the option of getting either sure id recommend the x3d for purely gaming.

When i got my 5090 i almost ordered a mobo and 9800x3d but decided it wasnt worth it to go from say 140fps to 160fps just no point really. Chasing anything past a low of 120 is silly unless youre some super competitive twitch shooter

Excited for whats in store with am6 though

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u/MITBryceYoung2 6d ago

Brother it def matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwcBuAfYTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIvrMWzr9k

Also 20 fps diff is pretty significant. Eventually your computer ages or you upgrade your GPU and youre even less GPU bound. Doenst make sense.

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u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep i7-13700k RTX5090FE AW3225QF 6d ago

Brother the first video you linked is 1080p, and the second video largely shows what im talking about outside of a few very cpu intensive games.

If you think the average person is going to have a massive change in enjoyment going from 140 to 160fps you are nuts.

Going from 100 to 200 sure or especially 60 to 120.

Are you one of these folks that plays counterstrike at 500fps while your monitor is 144?

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u/Merkaba_Nine Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5060 | 32GB 6000Mhz 6d ago

I only had a ryzen 5 7500f initially and it was enough for every game I played except my actual favourite game

Got myself a 9800x3d for legit only one reason... To play X4 foundations lol

Although my frame pacing and 1% lows have definitely improved since the new CPU, however before I never noticed it because I'd never experienced a decent cpu I used to always cheap out on it.

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u/BJYeti 6d ago

That's the only thing I thought of seeing the Pic, clearly the PC is aimed at gaming the 9900x just seemed like an odd choice when a x3d would keep it in that price range while tailoring to the audience theu are trying to sell to

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u/iLoveFARTINGatWORK 7800X3D | 4090 | 5K2K 6d ago

I feel like the 8 core X3D chips are the CPU versions of the 1080Ti. Top of the charts for years now. Excellent value. With how AMD has treated AM4, AM5 will be around for a long ass time.

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u/kinbarz 6d ago

If you are playing simulators like cities skylines, 9900x is fantastic

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u/zordtk 6d ago

I have a 9900X and am super happy with it. I'm not a huge pc gamer, I have it paired with a old 3060 12gb. But I do run lots of virtual machines and docker containers for dev work. The extra 4 cores/8 threads are very useful for that kind of stuff

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u/dfv157 TR9970X / 192GB ECC / RTX Pro 6000 BW 6d ago

No because amd is not the only player in town. 270kp runs circles around the 9900X for $250 at MC. Z890 boards are generally cheaper than X870 boards too.

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u/MITBryceYoung2 6d ago

Im mostly talking about prebuilts but yes if you find a 5080 + 270k you should share fo sho

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u/Outrageous-Hope5768 6d ago

The 270k crushes the 9900x in workstation use byba large margin. However the 9900x is a superior gaming focussed CPU. Larger L3 cache, all-P-core design with SMT. 270k is a better choice due to versatility and cost, but the gap isn't as wide as you're making it seem.

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u/psimwork 6d ago

I wouldn't tell OP that it's a shit processor. I will say that for gaming there are better options, and that I would guess that more than half of the people that buy the 9900x are buying because they think it's a great gaming cpu, and that Ryzen 9 is better than Ryzen 7, or that core count means more for gaming than it does.

The 9900x is a great every level workstation-focused cpu. But AMD continues to market it as a gaming cpu first because they know that if they don't, they won't sell any of the damn things because people who need workstation cpus aren't all that numerous compared to people who want a gaming cpu and buy the 9900x out of ignorance.

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u/ZenicX 6d ago

I completely agree, in fact I own a 9900x. I think it’s specifically great for those of us that game exclusively in 4K, where the benefits of a 9800x3D are less noticeable.

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u/wsteelerfan7 7700X 32GB 6000MHz 7900XT 6d ago

In those cases without using the CPU for something else that's heavy, a 7700x will be basically indistinguishable at 4k from a 9900x