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Everyone has been saying you should buy AMD’s Ryzen 7 5700X3D if you’re building a budget gaming rig. But who wants to pay for a Computer that is out of date before you add it to your cart? What if I told you there were SECRET gaming CPUs that go blow for blow with the 5700X3D (at least one of them does!), are AM5, AND most importantly are CHEAPER. Meet the AMD Ryzen 5 7500f and the 8400f. We sent it, AND ANOTHER possible secret budget king through the LABS gauntlet, to find out if AMD has been hiding the best value in gaming.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:08 What is the CPU(s)
2:34 Regular Benchmarks
4:15 Paired with a 4060
4:47 Paired with a 4070 Super
6:08 Paired with a 4090
6:34 Should you BUY it?
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Thought it was new blood editing. I think the audio has been set too high. It's really loud compared to other things I've watched today and it even peaks on occasion.
Great video, but for those who might be looking at AM4 for even more savings, the 5600x or 5600g refurbed is monstrous for the price. I got mine for 50$ and blows price to performance out of the water compared to these cpus
No one told about, ahaha.
This was the most popular CPU in Ukraine, Russia and probably whole Asia. It could be purchased for less than $100 from Aliexpress. I got it on black friday for $115, not that cheap but still not bad, great processor.
I thought linus' team is moderating the comment section, some replies on a comment are so pressed on a joke
Dude wtf my name it Nate Howard
i just got AMD Ryzen 5 9600X hope its good for gaming it was 240eur
I will probably stay in AM4 Platform in a while until AM6 arrives
B450 with Ryzen 5 3600 CPU build in 2019, just recently bought Ryzen 7 5700X3D few days ago this April 2025, no regrets, keeping this build for awhile, plus its expensive to build new AM5 platform in PH
So many saying if you are on AM4 upgrade to 5700x3d. –>> NO!
Upgrade for cheap to AM5 and sell your used AM4 stuff. For just 70$ more than the 5700x3d, I went the 7500f route and am once again on a future-proof plattform.
I'm still on AM4 and I think upgrading to AM5 because of 2 more years of support by AMD makes not so much sense. … Oh wait a sec. While writing this I realized, I can buy a CPU after the official support ends lol.
In Europe 7500F is available in retail basically since launch. Poor America is late to party or LTT is blind and couldn't see this gem…
nah mate all i had top do was swap r5 3600 with 5700x3d and that was it, makes no sense to build new if it doesnt have at least 25%+ better performance….
its still expensive in my country its $206
My version of budget pc is i7 4th gen, chinese B85 with nvme slot, 16gb ram , 1tb gen3 nvme that will cost like $80 in total. Slap it with used rtx 2060s and you can have fun with $250 budget gaming pc.
This has been covered by other channels like RandomGamingInHD tbh
i like how i sorta knew which cpu they were gonna cover with the title, happy with my decision to go with the 7500f with my new build a year ago
The actual problem is availability . Its not available in aliexpress banned countries.
R5 8400f is even cheaper. Too bad it can't run pcie x16, at least it runs my games
Stupid video, old recycled news, no wonder i lost interest. For the enthusiast you lost me.
Zac has been recommending this for a while
I own a Ryzen 7 5700x3d but I feel the no need to jump to AM5. I think I'll wait for AM6
why couldnt you post this video 3 months ago T-T i just bought a CPU
"intel is still in exists FOR NOW"
BIG OOF
I currently have a 5700X. It is AU$414 to upgrade to a 5700X3D & AU$470 to get the 7500F + AM5 mobo + DDR5 32GB 6000Mhz RAM. However, I'm currently waiting to see if AMD releases a 7700X3D or 7600X3D or Ryzen 9000 versions in the next few months (by which point I'll have saved up enough to get one of those instead).
expensive CPUs hate this ONE trick!
I love AliExpress for budget AMD chips. That's why I'm watching the sales to try to get two Athlon II X4 8?0 FM2+ chips to upgrade my decrepit desktops from their base CPUs that only use FM2 and not FM2+ capabilities. Along with the benefit of double the cores and a few more architecture features, the plus designation would mean I can finally run my my two allegedly legitimately branded MSI 1060 GTX 5GBs ("Air" model, chinese version?) that I got for $12 each from a translation-mangled chinese Amazon seller's pages, bringing them up to the full speed of their PCI-E 3.0 specced cap that I can't use with lowly FM2 chips. That improvement, along with the extra cores, might bring the machines somewhere near the minimum spec to be able to run some, sorta recently-considered-outdated games like CS2, which seems to be too CPU heavy for my current A6 6400K dual cores despite nearly 4Ghz of clock speeds and RAM maxing out the DDR3 clock speeds.
I mean, this video was about budget chips, right? I'm really hoping to get two X4 840 or 860s for less than $15. I can get one for $8 or two for $18, maybe I should earn more coins playing minigames.
Because come on, we're talking budget here, if I had $300-$500 to change my base system components out for an AM5 (Motherboard, CPU, RAM, ugh probably power supply), even one machine at a time, then I wouldn't be wasting time trying to get these machines up to top end of life spec.
I do think its hilarious that I can get such high end components for these architectures for so amazingly cheap though, and smh that new games somehow need MORE than a maxed out FM2+ mainboard can do even with settings at minimum. Like what the F is taking so much CPU?
so what im seeing is when looking to upgrade my 7600G i should just get the 5700X3D since it uses the same socket and performs better for a great price? what was the point of this video? if you are a budget gamer within the past few years chances are you already have a 5600X G or something similar. to go further youd need a new motherboard to support the new cpu which is am5 instead of am4, which will raise that price higher for only a tiny bit of performance. or just get the 5700X3D for much MUCH better perf and it still uses the same socket. i clicked this video thinking itd be something like am4 or something knowing this is ltt it was going to be AMD but this video was kind of pointless
i got the 7500F for aliexpress for 150cad last year. thing is a beast
Are those benchmarks for real? I keep seeing the testing vids from other creators on YT and 13400F is on par with this CPU, but in Linus's vid it's way behind… Where is the truth?
Just built a budget system as a wedding gift today with an 8400f and a 2070 super for one of my oldest friends and her husband, very cool to see an LTT video come up on it on the same day :3
I actually have that cpu and it’s really good
5600x is so cheap these days hard to pass it up
Intel really is where AMD used to be, wild.
i bought my 5800X3D 2 years ago so thats what 2 years after AM4 stopped, still today its a powerhouse with the 7900XT, it all depends what you want to play :). Me, i havnt left 2020 yet so all is well
i got the 5700x3d its amazing. your saying budget linus. but 7500f is on am5 maybe that cpu is cheap but the rest is not and its adds up. so i rather still go am4 for a budget gaming pc. and not am5
I have 2 years with my Ryzen 7500F, grabbed on release month on AliExpress (including the cooler), best purchase on my PC.
I'm running the 5800x3d & I'm starting to feel the need to upgrade since getting a rtx 4080 last year.
I mean its cool and all but it don't matter much to me. I've only ever bought a new computer at then last generation of a chipset.
if you dont want to upgrade to AM4, the 5700x (non 3d) should be fine… but if you can snipe one, for a good price, go for the x3d or sth else similar this high (and higher clock, maybe 5800xt)
Seeing the 3600 in any kind of comparison chart with the 9800x3D is wild
See how Linus made all the budget CPUs disappear with one simple video
bro tarrifs help the US if you're not gonna bother to do research on the topic stop talking about it
3:21 SOMETIMES CHEAPER
No and no. Get X3D.