HW Sales – Threadripper 1950X for $720, Z370 & X370 Boards for $100
Posted on April 27, 2018
Both Amazon and Newegg both have some noteworthy sales tonight (and some for only tonight), for anyone planning upgrades amidst the current great DIY PC crisis (see: RAM and GPU prices). The best deals include a couple of motherboards and AMD’s Threadripper 1950X. The deals appear to be good for the next 8 hours, at the time of this writing.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16C/32T) $719: Anyone who’s been looking at a Threadripper workstation build (see ours here), this is a pretty nice deal on AMD’s flagship TR CPU. With 16 physical cores, and 32 threads, the 1950X runs a 3.4 GHz base speed, with boost up to 4.2 GHz with XFR. The 1950X usually runs for $879 - $900, with a $1,000 MSRP. The 1950X doesn’t ship with a cooler, so be prepared to outlay some cash for one. We liked both the Noctua NH-U14S and the Enermax Liqtech 360 TR4.
Gigabyte Z370 AUROS GAMING $100 (with promo code): With the use of the promo code (NENGG3), this Z370 board from Gigabyte can be had for $100—not a shabby price for a decent Z370 board. The board uses the LGA 1151 socket, but is not backwards compatible with older LGA 1151 CPUs; it’s strictly for 8th generation Coffee Lake chips. This board offers the usual crop of Z370 chipset options: 64GB of dual channel DDR4, HDMI 1.4, USB 3.1 Type-C and Type-A, 802.11 Wi-Fi, RGB lighting and RGB headers, and CrossFire/SLI support.
Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming 5 $100 (with promo code): An equally attractive Gigabyte option for would be AMD builders. With promo code NNGG2, this X370 board can be bought for $100 as well. This board will likely require a BIOS update for Ryzen 2000 series and Raven Ridge APU support.
Corsair Graphite 760T with free H50 cooler $100 (with promo code): For anyone looking for a full tower, Corsair’s 760T from their Graphite series can be had for $100—with a free Corsair H50 cooler. Be sure and use the promo code NENCS9 for the full discount, which comes to about $80 sans the free cooler, which is another $60.
That’s it for this round-up. These mostly end tonight, in theory, so we wanted to get a shortlist of good hardware sales online.
- Eric Hamilton