Last week, AMD revealed further (post-CES) Ryzen 7 9850X3D details—namely an officially confirmed $499 MSRP, and January 29 launch date. This 8-core 3D V-Cache-augmented gaming desktop processor's arrival has not been timed to perfection; as evidenced by a leaked Team Red marketing slide. The ongoing computer memory supply crisis has caused many "rethinks" at affected manufacturers, with a handful of key players dipping back into older product lines. Extraordinary circumstances have led to the resurgence of DDR4 memory products—currently, this older—still viable—standard has experienced price hikes, albeit not to the extent of newer DDR5 sticks. In China, AMD and involved hardware partners have taken the unusual step of bundling the brand-new Ryzen 7 9850X3D OEM(?) model with a 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5 kit, and a CPU air cooler.

Photos of a boxed retail example were uploaded to JustBuy's Bilibili blog, showing a likely region-exclusive package that is advertised as including Team Red's newest member of "Granite Ridge" processor family, V-Color Manta XFinity+ OLED DDR5 memory, and a white Cooler Master HYPER 612 APEX Pro tower cooler. The exact specifications of V-Color's bundled-in kit were not visible, or described by the JoyBuy previewer—apparently this partnership-produced combo was unveiled during a recent Cooler Master event in China. In a joking assumption, UNIKO's Hardware proposed lowly 4800 CL58 credentials—clearly riffing on the AMD marketing team's reported claim that "DDR5-6000 to DDR5-4800 memory yields less than a 1% drop of FPS." Several PC hardware news outlets have assumed that V-Color has supplied Manta XFinity+ OLED DDR5-6000 CL26 kits, leading to a total price estimate of sub-$1100 for the snazzy Cooler Master ($79.99) x AMD ($499 MSRP) x V-Color (~$509) box and contents.

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