This morning, a friend of mine waited in the cold outside of Brooklyn’s Micro Center retailer, specifically to buy this pre-built desktop . It’s a good deal, and they’d been wavering on a long-overdue PC upgrade for a while. But what’s interesting is that it’s packing a brand-new AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D CPU. This is a chip that, as far as I can tell, is only available in this one desktop at the moment.

There are a couple of interesting things going on here. One, this is a new chip in a slightly older generation—the Ryzen 7000 series—which has subsequently been replaced by the Ryzen 9000 on the same AM5 socket. That’s not exactly unheard of, though. Earlier this year, AMD released new AM4 chips , which are compatible with motherboards that are almost a decade old at this point. And the X3D

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