[toast0]

The current price difference on Amazon is $5. But the 7700X doesn't include a cooler. If you're not planning to use the AMD cooler, may as well pay an extra $5 and get a processor that binned better (probably), not have the extra cooler, and you can fiddle with voltage and TDP/power limits from there.

Depending on your cooling, having a 100Mhz higher max clock could be worth $5.

[Scoundreller]

I know someone that bought an AMD CPU but it was a factory-sealed empty box. Turned out sending out a cooler-free product in the same packaging allowed for the CPU to be taken out of the box's window without breaking the seal. Hopefully they've updated the packaging.