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Ryzen 3 2200G in most cases

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What is the cheapest CPU I can buy that wont bottleneck a GTX 1060 or RX 580. I know the Ryzen  2600 is really good for its price but I want to know the very cheapest CPU i can get that wont bottle neck the 1060 or 580. Thanks

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Depends on your gaming library, you might be able to get away with a quad core for some of the slightly less new titles. Ryzen 3 2200g comes to mind, and value is also something to consider, the 2600 is a good buy even if you have to stretch your budget.

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Try getting a Ryzen 1600, it's cheaper and barely 10% slower than the 2600. If anything even a pretty new Intel i3 won't bottleneck you.

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2 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Depends on your gaming library, you might be able to get away with a quad core for some of the slightly less new titles. Ryzen 3 2200g comes to mind, and value is also something to consider, the 2600 is a good buy even if you have to stretch your budget.

One that wont ever bottleneck a 1060 or 580 in any game

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7 minutes ago, Orbity said:

What is the cheapest CPU I can buy that wont bottleneck a GTX 1060 or RX 580. I know the Ryzen  2600 is really good for its price but I want to know the very cheapest CPU i can get that wont bottle neck the 1060 or 580. Thanks

I have a little experience here and I'd try to go for a Ryzen 5 2400G at the minimum. The 2200G is also fine, but the extra four threads do allow your system to have a bit more breathing room. The Ryzen 5 1400 and 1500X are also valid options, and you won't need the iGPU so the 1400 at $135 US isn't bad.

 

Micro Center has the Ryzen 7 1700X at $150 though, and that's a pretty damn good deal.

 

You would be hard pressed to find a hard bottleneck, but performance will still improve with higher end chips.

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Just now, Orbity said:

One that wont ever bottleneck a 1060 or 580 in any game

Any game? Shoot for more cores then. Although this is starting to fall into the realm of "Future proof" and we all know how that turns out.

Either way, can't go wrong with mid tier Ryzen, moar cores.

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3 minutes ago, SaintERosa said:

Try getting a Ryzen 1600, it's cheaper and barely 10% slower than the 2600. If anything even a pretty new Intel i3 won't bottleneck you.

 

AMDlogic.pngThis isent the case any more but it was like this a few weeks ago

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If you won't guaranteed no bottles get a Ryzen 7 or Intel i7 or i9 (8th gen and up). I have a i7-6700K and a GTX 1080 and it performs amazingly I even see benchmarks of others playing games I have with the same CPU and GPU and they still don't seem to hit my performance?

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Just now, Orbity said:

 

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Well then get the 2600

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Just now, Orbity said:

 

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To be honest this isn't always the case lol I could have looked up the prices but yeah I'd go for the 2600 in this case.

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