Six cores. 12 threads. And all the CPU you'll ever need. That's the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and it's available for its lowest ever price on Amazon at just $174.99. That's one hell of a deal.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07STGGQ18?...63869637949-20

Specifically, it's $24 off the 3600's normal pricing of $199. For that you get the aforementioned six cores running at a healthy baseclock of 3.6GHz and turboing up to 4.2GHz. For most computing tasks, most of the time, including a lot of games, you could chuck any amount of additional CPU power into a PC and not notice the difference, subjectively. This six-core chip with AMD's Zen 2 architecture has you covered.

Other details include a healthy 32MB of L3 cache and, of course, support for PCI Express 4.0. The latter is a feature that isn't available on any Intel CPU, at any price, and enables the highest possible speed and performance with peripherals and add-in components such as SSDs.