The microprocessors have seen almost £50 chopped from prices that were already pretty cheap for what you get.

The biggest price cut has been focused on the Ryzen 7 1700X, which eBuyer has reduced by £44.99 to £344.99, with both Scan.co.uk (£351.49) and Amazon.co.uk (£343.99) responding.

Ebuyer knocked £32.42 off the price of the Ryzen 7 1700 (£287.62), £30.99 off the price of the top-of-the-range Ryzen 7 1800x (£459.99), £21.57 off the price of the Ryzen 5 1600 (£199.17), bringing it under £200, and a modest £9.99 off of the current entry-level Ryzen part, the Ryzen 5 1400, cutting the price to £159.96.

Scan and Amazon were quick to respond. Scan undercut eBuyer on the Ryzen 5 1500x, reducing it to £174.99. Scan has also cut few pounds off of the price of the Ryzen 5 1400, offering it for £155.99.

Intel parts have seen some discounting too. eBuyer cut the price of the overclockable Core i7-7700K by £54.34 to £319.64, and the Skylake-based Core i5-6600K by £30.55 to £219.99.

AMD's release of Ryzen 5 and 7 so far this year has seen competition hot up. although it's AMD's legacy parts that have generally been slashed in price so far.