Is this a good desicion

[JackJW]

I got about 200 GBP. 

My system has a i3 6100 1060 6Gb 8Gb DDR4 ram. 

For just under 200 I can get the ryzen 5 1600x and motherboard. 

Or for 200 I can get ryzen 5 2600 and motherboard. 

Any recommendations. 

[BigDamn]

Out of the two? Easily the Ryzen 5 2600. It's newer and has far superior IPC compared to 1st gen Ryzen. Make sure to get a motherboard with a B450 or X470 chipset and NOT B350 or X370! Common mistake I've seen here on the forums. Older chipsets have much worse memory compatibility among other issues.

[ELSknutson]

if you can get that 1600X with a cooler go with that if not get the 2600

[Ciaccio_47]

Do you have a z or x series model motherboard?

[mxk]

5 minutes ago, Ciaccio_47 said:

Do you have a z or x series model motherboard?

Probably wouldn't be worth it, value wise to pick up another intel chip. Zen 2 would be ideal down the line to get with a B450 motherboard.

[JackJW]

4 minutes ago, Ciaccio_47 said:

Do you have a z or x series model motherboard?

I have a H110M-R mothrrboard

 

[JackJW]

5 minutes ago, BigDamn said:

Out of the two? Easily the Ryzen 5 2600. It's newer and has far superior IPC compared to 1st gen Ryzen. Make sure to get a motherboard with a B450 or X470 chipset and NOT B350 or X370! Common mistake I've seen here on the forums. Older chipsets have much worse memory compatibility among other issues.

Any motherboards you reccomend that fit the price? 

[mxk]

Just now, JackJW said:

Any motherboards you reccomend that fit the price? 

It depends on what you're doing, but if you can pick up an ASRock B450 Pro4 that's a great budget motherboard.

[JackJW]

Just now, mxk. said:

It depends on what you're doing, but if you can pick up an ASRock B450 Pro4 that's a great budget motherboard.

And that would be fine with a 2600 I wouldn't run into any problems?

[Princess Luna]

Do nothing, wait for Ryzen 2 release, keep saving up for it.

[Herman Mcpootis]

16 minutes ago, JackJW said:

Any motherboards you reccomend that fit the price? 

right now the X370-Pro is a pretty sweet deal for 80 pounds, but you'll need to ask ebuyer if the BIOS has been updated.

[mxk]

24 minutes ago, JackJW said:

And that would be fine with a 2600 I wouldn't run into any problems?

Yeah that would be fine. You could do what Princess Cadence said and wait for Zen 2 this summer and keep your system for now, too. You could just save more money and get a solid CPU and good motherboard.

[Ciaccio_47]

1 hour ago, JackJW said:

I have a H110M-R mothrrboard

 

If you want to overclock with the R7 1700x then you should ge a z or x motherboard