In the UK THEY SELLProbably a dumb question... but the 3500X is selling for the same (or more) than the 3600, but has only 6 threads. And has nearly the same clock speeds. What is its purpose? AMD unloading 3600s that fail SMT, maybe?
In the UK THEY are selling for £120 versus say £175. But the 3600 will come with a cooler and the 3500X doesn't. That seems a fair price based on the reported benchmarks. That said there aren't many about and 2700X is comparable SC and superior MC. A second hand 2700X can be had for maybe £10 more so the 3500X aren't selling fast. They sit there on eBay then go for between 100 to 120 as far as I can see.Probably a dumb question... but the 3500X is selling for the same (or more) than the 3600, but has only 6 threads. And has nearly the same clock speeds. What is its purpose? AMD unloading 3600s that fail SMT, maybe?
In the UK THEY SELL
In the UK THEY are selling for £120 versus say £175. But the 3600 will come with a cooler and the 3500X doesn't...
No cooler? Here in the US the 3500X comes with a cooler unless the ad is wrong.
"Cooling DeviceHeatsink and fan included "
The novelty of getting a CPU not meant for the US market?...
Is there some benefit that the 3500X has over the 3600 that I don't know about?
Still selling for £120 in the UK. You can get the 3600 for say 180 so it is about right as threads aren't cores. Except you don't get a cooler which makes it poor value. Better to save for a 3600, get a cooler and proper support. I think these will disappear fast from the western market. Too expensive. You can get 6 cores and threads for the same price with a 2600, and a cooler. I'm seeing 3400g crop up around £100 new recently as well. So the 3500x serves no purposeIgnore the 3500. It is irrelevant