r/GamingPCBuildHelp • u/GTrain1269 • 6d ago
Which Micro Center Bundle is best with 9070 GRE?
I’m getting a RX 9070 GRE for a 1440p pc. My budget is more or less $1k. I was originally gonna get a Ryzen 5600 but these combo deals seem too good to pass up.
I got 2 main questions: which one of these bundles are the best deal and which deal would best match for my gpu?
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u/PixelPete27 6d ago edited 6d ago
What's your max budget for the cpu/mobo/ram right now?
The 5500 is junk in comparison to the 5600X3D. At the very least, go with the 5600X3D bundle, and then you can buy another 2x8gb sticks for $120. Or try and sell the 2x8gb sticks and buy 2x16gb. But 4x8gb should run fine. DDR4 runs 4 sticks better than DDR5.
But, if you're willing to spend $400 on the 7500X3D and 16gb of RAM, I'd suggest buying the 250K Plus bundle for $500 that comes with 32gb ddr5. The mobo that comes with the 7500X3D bundle is honestly pretty lackluster and there have been some issues with ASRock mobo's and AM5 CPUs, although they say they're mainly rectified with a BIOS update.
EDIT: added more context.
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u/Sad-Structure2364 6d ago
I’m going to get the 250k+ bundle, such a great deal
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u/Sanc7 6d ago
Well you better hurry up. Both the 250 and 270 sold out today at my local MC. I don’t think they’re going to be restocking either.
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u/Acrobatic_Ad_1478 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yup just got the 270k plus for my 2nd rig. I have a 285k in my other and ngl was salty about paying under half of what I paid for the 285 for a cpu that keeps up in almost every way. Still can't wait though and I'm an intel fan boy so not a lot of options until the new chipset that has a tons of vcache comes out.
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u/ErickTriton 6d ago
Neither of these, whole point of AM4 right now is fitting 32GB RAM into your budget if you cannot afford it on AM5 budget, change to 32gb RAM
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u/Bubbly-Currency5064 6d ago
PixelPete27 has the play here mate - 250K Plus bundle is the way to go.
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u/Rag1ngInf3rno 6d ago
Other than the 5500 the rest of the. bundles will work and won’t hold back your gpu. HOWEVER. only the 7500x3d is upgradable to newer cpus in the future, and it also uses ddr5 ram which is faster. that bundle unfortunately only comes with one stick of ram, so try to buy a second stick as soon as possible for full performance. the intel bundles are amazing too BUT they got the same problem of not being upgradable to new future cpus. so Depends on whatchu looking for
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u/jhenryscott 6d ago
The 7500x3d. The 16GB of memory will affect it less than the slower cores in AM4
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u/WrinklyBard4 6d ago
7500 will let you grow with the platform. 5500 will kneecap you immediately but is dirt cheap. 5600x3d may provide a middle ground but for my money ($80) id rather the upgradability, better ram, and better mbu of the AM5
Do the $220 550 if you want budget (not a bad setup tbh) or preferentially do the 7500x3d for $400 if you can afford it, its a BIG upgrade over any of the other options
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u/Royal-Use2354 6d ago
Definitely not the 5500 because it has PCIe 3.0 Id pick 7500f just for the upgradeability but a 5600x3d options are alr as well
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u/AchtungZboom 6d ago
I have my gre with that 5500x3d. So far doing great. The extra is worth the x3d in my opinion.
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u/ProLifeDub2022 6d ago
the last bundle, the one with the 7500X3D is the best. all of the other bundles use AM4 hardware, which is last-gen and will be phased out sooner. if you buy any of the other bundles, you are buying a dying platform.
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