AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors just hit stores and they seem to be running out of stock pretty much everywhere. If you are based in India, don’t buy from Amazon. Firstly, the naming of the AMD CPUs is messed up, and secondly, they sell them for a premium. Your best bet is one of the big three retailers of India: MDComputers, Vedant Computers, and PrimeABGB. We’d suggest staying away from Vedant as they charge you an extra 100-200 for shipping and possibly another 50-100 for some other crap. That leaves us with PrimeABGB and MDComputers. We tried placing an order on both these online stores to see which one has the lowest final price and here’s what we found:

PrimeABGB

Prime charges an additional 50 bucks or so for packaging and another 75 for Zone 1 shipping, so we checked out MD to see if they have any hidden fees.

MDComputers

And voila. We’ve got a winner!

didn’t add a single buck to the price mentioned at the home page. It’s the same 29,488 INR that’s there on the product catalog. So, if you want to save every last penny, MD is the way to go. Don’t worry about reliability, we’ve transacted with them, and they are decent folks. You can pay the final bill via NEFT/IMPS/UPI/Cash/Cheque.

Best Budget CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

With a price tag of 17,098 INR, the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the much more expensive Intel Core i7-8700K, both in gaming and content creation. It’s possibly the best value-for-money CPU in the market. You can buy it here.

Best High-End: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

The Ryzen 7 3700X competes with the Core i9-9900K that costs an additional 15K. In fact, in multi-threaded , it’s even better the i9. As for gaming, there’s very little difference. You can read our review here. Here’s the link to the product page on MD.

Enthusiast Range: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

If you want the absolute fastest CPU that obliterates giants like the Extreme Edition i7s and i9s from Intel for half the price, then this is the processor for you. It costs a reasonable 42,468 INR and comes with 12 cores, 24 threads and a boost clock of 4.6GHz. Courtesy of the soldered IHS, you should be able to overclock it to up to 4.7-4.8GHz (updated) without any problem. The gigantic 70MB of cache makes it one of the best CPUs for gaming. We’ll have a review up soon. In the meantime, if you are planning to buy this beast, here’s the link.

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