Get a FREE RAM kit when you purchase an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU from Microcenter

Microcenter is the first retailer to bundle free RAM kits with select AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs.

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First of all, Microcenter is offering AMD's new Ryzen 7 9700X processor with a free 32GB kit of G.SKILL Flare X5 series DDR5-6000 memory (you can check it out here), where the RAM alone costs over $100 and the Ryzen 7 9700X processor alone costs $360, that means you're really only paying $260 for the 9700X processor. Damn good stuff.

When switching to the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, Microcenter supplies 16 GB of the same DDR5-6000 memory from the G.SKILL Flare X5 series (Check out this offer here), for $280. ​​The 16GB kit with DDR5-6000 RAM costs about $50, so you're paying about $230 for the 9600X alone, which is also a great deal, but not as good as the 9700X + 32GB deal.

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The reason? You wouldn't want to build a new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series system with only 16GB of RAM, so if you bought the 9600X + 16GB deal through Microcenter, you'd really want to buy another 16GB stick so you have 32GB of dual-channel DDR5-6000. I wouldn't recommend buying only 16GB of RAM, or I would recommend building only a single-channel capable new Zen 5-based PC.

Microcenter offers other CPUs with RAM packages, including the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 7700X for $435—so more, yes—but you get the same 32GB RAM kit and an MSI B650 series motherboard, which costs $150 on its own.