The Ryzen 5 3500 is a hexa-core processor that's rumored to come without SMT.
Ryzen 5 3500 Specs Leak: Could Be New Budget CPU King : Read more
Ryzen 5 3500 Specs Leak: Could Be New Budget CPU King : Read more
If you like near a microcenter the best deal they currently have is a Ryzen 5 1600 for $79.99, they've had that deal for a while and bang for buck there isn't anything quite as good thats currently available. Also they still come with a decent cooler, the new wraith stealths really suck in comparison.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/478826/ryzen-5-1600-32ghz-6-core-am4-boxed-processor-with-wraith-spire-cooler
Thats a weird issue with your 1800x, ever thought about getting an RMA on it since its not able to run correctly within spec? Who knows, they may send you a Ryzen 3000 chip as a replacementi would not even consider the 1st gen ryzen at all, you can get my used 1800x for just over £100 now which is bonkers, second gen 2600x/2700x or 3rd gen 3600x or 3700x they are so much faster then 1st gen (also i wouldn't buy a CPU without SMT/HT as there are times when all cores are maxed out and leaves nothing for the OS to do stuff, micro stutters or sticky mouse)
if i dont overclock my 1800x all cores to 3.9ghz it stutters or hitches (hard to explain) when using it
Seems fine at all core 3.92ghz ghz (base is something like 99.9mhz so I use 39.25 get about 3.92ghz) any higher just needs more voltage (a lot more) as well as heat just to get 4ghz so left it at 3.9ghzThats a weird issue with your 1800x, ever thought about getting an RMA on it since its not able to run correctly within spec? Who knows, they may send you a Ryzen 3000 chip as a replacement. Also yes, first gen Ryzen left some performance on the table, but its also quite cheap. As a place holder chip that works now, games now, can be overclocked and used now, for 80 dollars, its totally fine. As a comparison, a Ryzen 5 3600 is 199 dollars, or roughly 2.5 times the price of the Ryzen 5 1600, while offering at most, 30% more performance. Or to put it another way, you get 70% of the performance for 40% of the price. I honestly do think its worth buying the Ryzen 5 1600 at microcenter over just about anything else at this point. Then a year or two down the road when you can get a ryzen 3000 chip for a decent deal, you jump on that, and get a nice 30% single core performance upgrade (IPC and Clocks), and probably more cores, for relative peanuts. Then you can either sell the 1600 for 40 bucks or so, use it in a secondary rig, or use it for a family member, it wont be cutting edge but itll still be perfectly capable of web browsing or really anything else.