AM4 Lives: AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D CPU Review & Benchmarks
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Date: 2025-09-01
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flink1231
Brazilian here and I can confirm other comments and general suspicion, Brazilian computer parts are usually 2x up to 3x US prices. Sometimes it means it is cheaper to pay a flight, buy in the US and come back. Personnal imports for goods above 50 usd have an effective 92% tariff (the other comment on it is only citing import dutties and forgets state tax...). Business imports have completly different tariffs, which depend on goods category code (it gets so complicated that you must pay expert firms when importing factory machinery so later when you have to sue the governament for overcharging or for unfair fining you have the argument your classification is correct) and along with crazy port warehousing costs (some ports are legalized oligopolies...) you usually end with at least double the origin cost, but it varies greatly depending on the good. I worked for years in a US business with imports/exports of consumer goods, so I guess I can say with certainty tarrifs here generate crazy tech prices here... Id estimate the 5500x3d would be around 90-100 USD in the US... so yeah, in Brazil we make less money on average and pay higher prices for tech. Grey market prices are also not that much lower and you never know if you are buying new or refurbished (usually terrible for buying HDDs...).
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Brazilian here and I can confirm other comments and general suspicion, Brazilian computer parts are usually 2x up to 3x US prices. Sometimes it means it is cheaper to pay a flight, buy in the US and come back. Personnal imports for goods above 50 usd have an effective 92% tariff (the other comment on it is only citing import dutties and forgets state tax...). Business imports have completly different tariffs, which depend on goods category code (it gets so complicated that you must pay expert firms when importing factory machinery so later when you have to sue the governament for overcharging or for unfair fining you have the argument your classification is correct) and along with crazy port warehousing costs (some ports are legalized oligopolies...) you usually end with at least double the origin cost, but it varies greatly depending on the good. I worked for years in a US business with imports/exports of consumer goods, so I guess I can say with certainty tarrifs here generate crazy tech prices here... Id estimate the 5500x3d would be around 90-100 USD in the US... so yeah, in Brazil we make less money on average and pay higher prices for tech. Grey market prices are also not that much lower and you never know if you are buying new or refurbished (usually terrible for buying HDDs...).
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strongforce8466
What would have been nice is if they made a 5800x3d and maybe a 5600x3d refresh that performs even better with higher clocks (smaler node would have been cherry on top of the cake) as a last good bye, because there are still ALOT of people with AM4 motherboards who don't have enough to switch to AM5, even if it's a small profit, it would still be a profit for them.
Why do they stop producing it so fast also they could just do that and the prices will drop naturally, they just doing anything they can to get people to switch to AM5, which make sense but I feel like they could still profit from selling AM4 CPUs even over the course of the AM5 platform I mean they are currently and are going to for a while but I mean one last CPU gen here even with minimal gains like 10-15% I guess the only reason they are not doing it is because they want to those CPU to eat into those sales, gotta sell those overpriced AM5 motherboards lol.. although it's got better now, especially in Swiss, only high end boards are really expensive, often full of features most people don't even need.
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What would have been nice is if they made a 5800x3d and maybe a 5600x3d refresh that performs even better with higher clocks (smaler node would have been cherry on top of the cake) as a last good bye, because there are still ALOT of people with AM4 motherboards who don't have enough to switch to AM5, even if it's a small profit, it would still be a profit for them.
Why do they stop producing it so fast also they could just do that and the prices will drop naturally, they just doing anything they can to get people to switch to AM5, which make sense but I feel like they could still profit from selling AM4 CPUs even over the course of the AM5 platform I mean they are currently and are going to for a while but I mean one last CPU gen here even with minimal gains like 10-15% I guess the only reason they are not doing it is because they want to those CPU to eat into those sales, gotta sell those overpriced AM5 motherboards lol.. although it's got better now, especially in Swiss, only high end boards are really expensive, often full of features most people don't even need.
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ramsai321
Hi GN, I have an i5 9400f and 1650 super pc and I have recently purchased a 1440p ultrawide monitor, I want to upgrade my PC so I can actually play the newer games at decent settings on native resolution, I was planning to upgrade my PC in phases, so first I will upgrade the GPU and then everything else, so would a 9060xt 16GB be good enough for the next 2 years and will it be able to give good fps on 1440p ultrawide on decent settings Please note that all other cards above it are much more expensive in my country, and I only game during the weekends, and nowadays I mostly play Marvel Rivals and Nightrein at very low settings.( CPU would be 7600X or 9600X )
p.s.: I have the budget to get any card up to the 5070ti, but because GTA6 is coming to consoles first, I am also planning on getting a PS5 to play that on day 1, that's the reason I don't want to over invest now on my PC and then not be able to get a PS5 later. So just want to know if the 9060xt is good enough to get be for the next 2 years.
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Hi GN, I have an i5 9400f and 1650 super pc and I have recently purchased a 1440p ultrawide monitor, I want to upgrade my PC so I can actually play the newer games at decent settings on native resolution, I was planning to upgrade my PC in phases, so first I will upgrade the GPU and then everything else, so would a 9060xt 16GB be good enough for the next 2 years and will it be able to give good fps on 1440p ultrawide on decent settings Please note that all other cards above it are much more expensive in my country, and I only game during the weekends, and nowadays I mostly play Marvel Rivals and Nightrein at very low settings.( CPU would be 7600X or 9600X )
p.s.: I have the budget to get any card up to the 5070ti, but because GTA6 is coming to consoles first, I am also planning on getting a PS5 to play that on day 1, that's the reason I don't want to over invest now on my PC and then not be able to get a PS5 later. So just want to know if the 9060xt is good enough to get be for the next 2 years.
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mapesdhs597
The sad part about these downstream parts is it shows just how good they could be if they were deliberately designed from the outset to be the core/cache configuration they are, without being hamstrung by lower clocks, inefficiency, etc. The 3300X demonstrated this all too well, it compared very favourably to vastly more expensive products, hence why AMD never released a proper 5500X in the same type of configuration, likewise other 5K series CPUs didn't come until much later. A proper 5500X3D, even if it only had four cores, could be really good if it was allowed to run at relevant achievable clocks, with good efficiency, voltages, etc. Intel does the same thing of course, lower core count parts have lower clocks, etc., because otherwise they'd be too good compared to the more expensive SKUs.
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The sad part about these downstream parts is it shows just how good they could be if they were deliberately designed from the outset to be the core/cache configuration they are, without being hamstrung by lower clocks, inefficiency, etc. The 3300X demonstrated this all too well, it compared very favourably to vastly more expensive products, hence why AMD never released a proper 5500X in the same type of configuration, likewise other 5K series CPUs didn't come until much later. A proper 5500X3D, even if it only had four cores, could be really good if it was allowed to run at relevant achievable clocks, with good efficiency, voltages, etc. Intel does the same thing of course, lower core count parts have lower clocks, etc., because otherwise they'd be too good compared to the more expensive SKUs.
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danielt91
Is it just me or half of the results don't make sense In FFXIV: The Ryzen 7700 is shown as SLOWER than the 5700x nonX3D How is that even possible on a game that is supposedly CPU bottlenecked when the Zen4 chip has frequency advantage, better IPC and runs on DDR5 On Baldur's gate 3 the Ryzen 7700 and 7600 are BARELY faster than 5600x and 5700x (non3D) variants. Again extremely hard to believe. On Dragon's Dogma 2 the 7700 is once again barely quicker than a 5700x (5%) despite the aforementioned frequency advantage, better IPC and DDR5 memory. Somehow this review has managed to portray the Zen 4 Ryzen 7700 chip as 0-5% faster than the Zen 3 counterparts in at least 3 of the game titles. I don't remember the 7700 being that slow in its original review.
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Is it just me or half of the results don't make sense In FFXIV: The Ryzen 7700 is shown as SLOWER than the 5700x nonX3D How is that even possible on a game that is supposedly CPU bottlenecked when the Zen4 chip has frequency advantage, better IPC and runs on DDR5 On Baldur's gate 3 the Ryzen 7700 and 7600 are BARELY faster than 5600x and 5700x (non3D) variants. Again extremely hard to believe. On Dragon's Dogma 2 the 7700 is once again barely quicker than a 5700x (5%) despite the aforementioned frequency advantage, better IPC and DDR5 memory. Somehow this review has managed to portray the Zen 4 Ryzen 7700 chip as 0-5% faster than the Zen 3 counterparts in at least 3 of the game titles. I don't remember the 7700 being that slow in its original review.
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nonayobizness2758
Broken silicon had recently speculated that AMD hasn’t yet put 3D v-cache on a second die as it would be too easy to extrapolate how much the stacked cache costs, (plus they threw in talk of 1 ccd being higher tier bin than the other, and both ccd’s getting the extra v-cache could necessitate both CCD’s being of higher quality, etc), but having this 5500x3d is a nice data point when considering v-cache cost. Of course after you calculate the price/value of a ccd that couldn’t bin the 5600, slap on some v-cache, and keep shipping product. The truth might be AMD could stack 3d v-cache on a jackrabbit if it would hold still long enough.
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Broken silicon had recently speculated that AMD hasn’t yet put 3D v-cache on a second die as it would be too easy to extrapolate how much the stacked cache costs, (plus they threw in talk of 1 ccd being higher tier bin than the other, and both ccd’s getting the extra v-cache could necessitate both CCD’s being of higher quality, etc), but having this 5500x3d is a nice data point when considering v-cache cost. Of course after you calculate the price/value of a ccd that couldn’t bin the 5600, slap on some v-cache, and keep shipping product. The truth might be AMD could stack 3d v-cache on a jackrabbit if it would hold still long enough.
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glenwaldrop8166
Re: hitting the clock speeds... My 3700x is overclocked slightly, can't remember the name, a user created a power profile that overclocked the CPU and Asus added it to their BIOS, 3 letter thing, regardless, 99.9% of the time my 3700x performs like a 3800x, however, it virtually never hits 4400MHz. It will hit 4275MHz regularly, sometimes it will hit 4300, I have seen 4400 like once. Even with the OC enabled, PBO enabled, thermals are well controlled, slightly undervolted, power limits were as high as 200W, still won't hit 4400MHz.
As it sits it will run at 74C, a hair over 100W all day long but not hit 4400MHz.
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Re: hitting the clock speeds... My 3700x is overclocked slightly, can't remember the name, a user created a power profile that overclocked the CPU and Asus added it to their BIOS, 3 letter thing, regardless, 99.9% of the time my 3700x performs like a 3800x, however, it virtually never hits 4400MHz. It will hit 4275MHz regularly, sometimes it will hit 4300, I have seen 4400 like once. Even with the OC enabled, PBO enabled, thermals are well controlled, slightly undervolted, power limits were as high as 200W, still won't hit 4400MHz.
As it sits it will run at 74C, a hair over 100W all day long but not hit 4400MHz.
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SHAdow98V
Wait so for clarification, is this probably the best pr among the best AM4 CPUs atm I am on AM4 and plan on staying on it for a rlly long time but i am looking into the best AM4 upgrades to basically get the best out of it for good since i am on an R5 5500 atm but you know, planning on upgrading to the best i can sooner or later.
EDIT: Nvm just looked it up, the 3d series CPU are better but the best option for AM4 gaming is the 5950x which is my target now, tho it'll be a while till i switch cuz the good ol' 5500x is still doing the job and maybe as time passes the 5950x gets cheaper.
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Wait so for clarification, is this probably the best pr among the best AM4 CPUs atm I am on AM4 and plan on staying on it for a rlly long time but i am looking into the best AM4 upgrades to basically get the best out of it for good since i am on an R5 5500 atm but you know, planning on upgrading to the best i can sooner or later.
EDIT: Nvm just looked it up, the 3d series CPU are better but the best option for AM4 gaming is the 5950x which is my target now, tho it'll be a while till i switch cuz the good ol' 5500x is still doing the job and maybe as time passes the 5950x gets cheaper.
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cracklingice
AM4 is OK. 2011-v3 (socket R3) is GOAT. It's really starting to feel like nothing will ever top X99. Its only major flaw was the chipset not being appropriately linked at gen 3 speed, but gen 2. A medium flaw being lack of bifurcation support. Funny how the platform with the $1700 CPU everyone ridiculed is still the best platform to have existed and those same people are cheering paying $350 for a motherboard and $700 for a CPU on the insufficient consumer socket when they are really just being ripped off by paying for HEDT features and not getting them.
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AM4 is OK. 2011-v3 (socket R3) is GOAT. It's really starting to feel like nothing will ever top X99. Its only major flaw was the chipset not being appropriately linked at gen 3 speed, but gen 2. A medium flaw being lack of bifurcation support. Funny how the platform with the $1700 CPU everyone ridiculed is still the best platform to have existed and those same people are cheering paying $350 for a motherboard and $700 for a CPU on the insufficient consumer socket when they are really just being ripped off by paying for HEDT features and not getting them.
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Al.j.Vasquez
For future Central and South American references my buddy Michael Quesada (the guy who asked AMD if 8gb video cards were enough or something like that, you covered his tweet) could help you with that, he is from Costa Rica (like i am) and he has done tech journalism in the past few years, so you might even meet him in places like CES or whatever they do in Taiwan or China, he could help you out with stuff like price comparisons and exclusive parts, I'd for sure love a collab between you guys, he is one very smart dude when it comes to objective testing.
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For future Central and South American references my buddy Michael Quesada (the guy who asked AMD if 8gb video cards were enough or something like that, you covered his tweet) could help you with that, he is from Costa Rica (like i am) and he has done tech journalism in the past few years, so you might even meet him in places like CES or whatever they do in Taiwan or China, he could help you out with stuff like price comparisons and exclusive parts, I'd for sure love a collab between you guys, he is one very smart dude when it comes to objective testing.
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frelj5604
Here in Argentina the dollars is $1300 ARS = $1 USD now, and it can change in the same day a lot, for reference here are the prices:
R5 5500X3D $263900 ARS about $203 USD
R5 5500 $112900 about $86 USD
R5 5600 non-xt $160000 about $123 USD
R5 7600 $302900 ARS about $233 USD
R5 9600 $344900 ARS about $265 USD
R7 9800X3D $663759 ARS to $740000 ARS about $510-570 USD
for now AM5 and DRR5 is expensive so it's not worth it, and to add to problems DRR4 it's nearly doubled in the past month and half
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Here in Argentina the dollars is $1300 ARS = $1 USD now, and it can change in the same day a lot, for reference here are the prices:
R5 5500X3D $263900 ARS about $203 USD
R5 5500 $112900 about $86 USD
R5 5600 non-xt $160000 about $123 USD
R5 7600 $302900 ARS about $233 USD
R5 9600 $344900 ARS about $265 USD
R7 9800X3D $663759 ARS to $740000 ARS about $510-570 USD
for now AM5 and DRR5 is expensive so it's not worth it, and to add to problems DRR4 it's nearly doubled in the past month and half
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gamersnexus
God I love the Am4... I didnt have enough money to upgrade a Motherboard, Ram and CPU, was so stoked I could upgrade from a 2600x to a 5700x and only have to buy the 5700x. Only had the money for a new CPU and not all the other stuff at the time, was just perfect and I am loving the 5700x. Thank you AMD, my first time getting a AMD cpu in ages was with the 2600x and now 5700x, I will stay with them for awhile I think after this great experience.
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God I love the Am4... I didnt have enough money to upgrade a Motherboard, Ram and CPU, was so stoked I could upgrade from a 2600x to a 5700x and only have to buy the 5700x. Only had the money for a new CPU and not all the other stuff at the time, was just perfect and I am loving the 5700x. Thank you AMD, my first time getting a AMD cpu in ages was with the 2600x and now 5700x, I will stay with them for awhile I think after this great experience.
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1986arseny
As a gamer from Brazil rolling on a X58 platform looking forward for a budget oriented, 12 years old newer architecture, this is good news. You can find a brand spanking new mATX mobo for an AM4 with decent quality for around 100 bucks, some webstores sell an upgrade kit with this CPU, mobo and RAM for less than U$S300,00. Not the ideal outcome, but if you're on a budget, this is rather excellent. Thanks for covering news from outside the US!
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As a gamer from Brazil rolling on a X58 platform looking forward for a budget oriented, 12 years old newer architecture, this is good news. You can find a brand spanking new mATX mobo for an AM4 with decent quality for around 100 bucks, some webstores sell an upgrade kit with this CPU, mobo and RAM for less than U$S300,00. Not the ideal outcome, but if you're on a budget, this is rather excellent. Thanks for covering news from outside the US!
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matiasposada992
Hello there! Im from Uruguay and i buy this CPU, i was had the GOAT R5 3600. Here the R5 5500X3D its in 228 USD.
Price context:
R5 5600XT -> 195 USD
R7 5700X -> 233 USD
Product thats you mention:
Core ultra 7 265KF -> 490USD (dont know why the 265K its more cheap, its in 447 USD LMAO latam things i guess..)
R5 9600X -> 303 USD
Intel i5 14600K -> 373 USD
R7 7700 -> 411 USD
Core ultra 5 225 -> 373 USD
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Hello there! Im from Uruguay and i buy this CPU, i was had the GOAT R5 3600. Here the R5 5500X3D its in 228 USD.
Price context:
R5 5600XT -> 195 USD
R7 5700X -> 233 USD
Product thats you mention:
Core ultra 7 265KF -> 490USD (dont know why the 265K its more cheap, its in 447 USD LMAO latam things i guess..)
R5 9600X -> 303 USD
Intel i5 14600K -> 373 USD
R7 7700 -> 411 USD
Core ultra 5 225 -> 373 USD
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gamersnexus
I frickin love this crosshair viii hero. Still rocking a 3800x on it.
Thing has NEVER slowed down on perma 4.3 ghz all core clock.
Just bought a 7800x3d/mobo/ram the other day, but if i could have found a 5800x3d for CHEAPER THAN A 7800X3D NEW, i would have stayed on x570.
People are literally charging more for the 5800x3d used than the 7800x3d new....
Not buying a used cpu for even 3/4ths the price of that cpu.
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I frickin love this crosshair viii hero. Still rocking a 3800x on it.
Thing has NEVER slowed down on perma 4.3 ghz all core clock.
Just bought a 7800x3d/mobo/ram the other day, but if i could have found a 5800x3d for CHEAPER THAN A 7800X3D NEW, i would have stayed on x570.
People are literally charging more for the 5800x3d used than the 7800x3d new....
Not buying a used cpu for even 3/4ths the price of that cpu.
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2fast4all
Back in 2021, I could have bought a 3600X like everyone else but I wanted to save a few bucks so I ended up buying a brand new 3500X. Its the same CPU without hyper threading (6 Cores only) everything else is nearly the same. It was initially for my sim rig pc which now I put my 3700X in it. A year ago I built a cheap itx rig and use the 3500X on an A520M asrock board with linuxmint. It runs great for what it is.
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Back in 2021, I could have bought a 3600X like everyone else but I wanted to save a few bucks so I ended up buying a brand new 3500X. Its the same CPU without hyper threading (6 Cores only) everything else is nearly the same. It was initially for my sim rig pc which now I put my 3700X in it. A year ago I built a cheap itx rig and use the 3500X on an A520M asrock board with linuxmint. It runs great for what it is.
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mitsync
The 5000 series has a bunch of permutations of different amounts of cores, cache, frequency and even die layout, I'd love to see an analysis of how performance in your benchmarks correlates with all these factors. Of course the exact numbers will be different on different architectures but it would be very helpful to have stats on what benchmarks are cache heavy, like frequency or scale well with corecount.
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The 5000 series has a bunch of permutations of different amounts of cores, cache, frequency and even die layout, I'd love to see an analysis of how performance in your benchmarks correlates with all these factors. Of course the exact numbers will be different on different architectures but it would be very helpful to have stats on what benchmarks are cache heavy, like frequency or scale well with corecount.
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Techromancer0
i really enjoy knowing my $300 5800x3d is still a beast of a cpu for gaming. it was really worth the savings on getting a $20 x570 board that was broken and 32 gb of ram for $50. it and and my $300 6950xt are gonna hold me over until gpu's come down in price or i just give up on pc gaming as a whole one day. made me feel at least for a moment budget pc gaming could be practical again.
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i really enjoy knowing my $300 5800x3d is still a beast of a cpu for gaming. it was really worth the savings on getting a $20 x570 board that was broken and 32 gb of ram for $50. it and and my $300 6950xt are gonna hold me over until gpu's come down in price or i just give up on pc gaming as a whole one day. made me feel at least for a moment budget pc gaming could be practical again.
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a64dx86
Should come to Germany, still have a am4 system, 5 3600 needs Upgrade!!! But that tiny thing is too small!!! Currently there is an 5700X (tray) for 105 123U$D available.
Hope they bring the 7 series back to am4... or 9 X3D models are too expensive or gone, so 300-400 each, so no option anymore. Could save me from buying a new bundle (CPUMBRAM) if they would release sth. real new!!!
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Should come to Germany, still have a am4 system, 5 3600 needs Upgrade!!! But that tiny thing is too small!!! Currently there is an 5700X (tray) for 105 123U$D available.
Hope they bring the 7 series back to am4... or 9 X3D models are too expensive or gone, so 300-400 each, so no option anymore. Could save me from buying a new bundle (CPUMBRAM) if they would release sth. real new!!!
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MihzvolWuriar
Remember all, taxes here in Brazil is from 50% to 100% price, at current prince, it would cost around 130-140 USD had it been launched there, 150 at launch, we just have accepted our fate of paying extra and do it anyways.
At that price, I'd say it's unbeatable in a entry gaming build, oh and yes, an entry gaming build here costs 1k USD, and these would fit perfectly on it.
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Remember all, taxes here in Brazil is from 50% to 100% price, at current prince, it would cost around 130-140 USD had it been launched there, 150 at launch, we just have accepted our fate of paying extra and do it anyways.
At that price, I'd say it's unbeatable in a entry gaming build, oh and yes, an entry gaming build here costs 1k USD, and these would fit perfectly on it.
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