If the Ryzen 3 3100 can be overclocked it will be a good budget option for a rig running more lightly threaded games. It is single CCX too,which should help with latency.

NICE =) The time to change CPU closes

These look nice. I was finding the 2200G was not quite fast enough for VR so went for a 3600.

Does raise the question, 3300X or 1600AF/2600 though?

DanceswithUnix
These look nice. I was finding the 2200G was not quite fast enough for VR so went for a 3600.

Does raise the question, 3300X or 1600AF/2600 though?

The gaming results could be very interesting, although I suspect the 1600 will edge it in modern titles. They're basically i3 9100Fs, just with slightly higher IPC and hyperthreading (so identical to the expected 10th gen i3s), and the 9100F is soundly beaten by the 1600 AF

CAT-THE-FIFTH
If the Ryzen 3 3100 can be overclocked it will be a good budget option for a rig running more lightly threaded games. It is single CCX too,which should help with latency.

It's the proper ryzen branding, rather than athlon, so hopefully we'll be able to just turn on PBO and get usual zen2 speeds from the 3100

B series with PCI-e 4. Going to be no reason to buy Intel shortly.

Scan has listings up but not for sale yet, and they're added pricing to the description: £95 for the 3100, and £115 for the 3300X. On sale 21st may
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-ryzen-3-3100-am4-zen-2-4-core-8-thread-36ghz-base-39ghz-turbo-18mb-cache-pcie-40-65w-cpu
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-am4-zen-2-4-core-8-thread-38ghz-base-43ghz-turbo-18mb-cache-pcie-40-65w-cpu

Right now the 9100F is listed for £72, so around where you'd expect in relation to the ryzen 3s, and the 9350KFC is DOA at £190 (not scan's fault, that must be what intel thinks it's worth. You used to be able to get K series i5s for that money!)

philehidiot
B series with PCI-e 4. Going to be no reason to buy Intel shortly.

Been very little reason to buy Intel all through 2020

It will become the world's first and only mainstream chipset with compatibility for PCIe 4.0

Have i been living in an alternative reality for the last 6 months or are X570 not mainstream chipsets?

Corky34
Have i been living in an alternative reality for the last 6 months or are X570 not mainstream chipsets?

Maybe they are looking at the product tier,ie,B450/B550 are mainstream and X570 is enthusiast level,not the platform being mainstream.

I liked my alternative reality explanation better, i was a millionaire playboy married to Kate Beckinsale in that. :)

Corky34
Have i been living in an alternative reality for the last 6 months or are X570 not mainstream chipsets?

Nope the X570 is enthusiast. Has always said so on the websites and by AMD. X370/X470/X570 are enthusiast with more pci lanes etc.

Was just pricing up kit for a long overdue upgrade, might be sensible to save my pennies until June to get one of the new motherboards for future-proofing. The platform should be around for a few more years! Then again the mobo I'm looking at is only £56 so hardly a great sum and could always be recycled to a second computer…

The Ryzen 3 3100X is dual CCX and the Ryzen 3 3300X is single CCX:
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-and-ryzen-3-3100-use-different-ccx-topology