AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by filoleg on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:33PM (#23228004)

Interesting you mention this, because I noticed a surprising surge out of nowhere among my friends, who suddenly all decided to build a SFPC. Despite none of them ever being interested in SFPC and all of them running mid/full-towers prior.

None of them are first-time PC builders tho, so it might have something to do with lockdown-induced boredom, and my friends deciding to challenge themselves to build a SFPC. As it sounds like a major pain and challenge compared to even a mid-tower (according to those of them who have already finished).

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by sq_ on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:31PM (#23231056)

I won't be building a new computer for a few more years, as I currently can't justify the cost of replacing my build, but when I do it'll almost certainly be a SFF build.

I've seen a number of people who have built tiny custom cases, and the challenge of both building something like that and getting everything to fit in it is super enticing. Definitely seems like the challenge and cool factor of fitting tons of power into something tiny is making a lot of people consider such builds over traditional mid or full tower machines.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by wishinghand on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:45PM (#23228126)

For me it was because I’m moving soon and wanted to have a smaller computer to move. The shortages put a stop to that though.

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