Same price Ryzen 5 2600 BOX or Ryzen 7 1700 OEM?

[LightParticle]

I have same price and exact the same budget as Ryzen 5 2600 Box and Ryzen 7 1700 OEM cost in my local store. Should I buy first or another one? My conslusion after watching some benchmarks, for professional 1700 will be better, but for casual general using and rarely games Ryzen 5 2600 would be better? Am I right? What you can advice for me? 

[Slottr]

Depends on what you intend to use the system for

[Tristerin]

Buy 1 or the other from Google.Express, if its your first purchase you get an instant 20% up to $20 off.  Got a R7 1700 2 weeks ago for $136 shipped.

 

My personal opinion?  I was at the impasse you are at, however already having owning a Ryzen 7 1700.  I know what it can do, and given the extra cores and threads over the 2600, plus with a minor OC its the same single core score...that was why I went with having 2 Ryzen 7 1700 machines (for gaming) over 1 and the other.

[BigDamn]

The 1700 will be better at multi-threaded workloads, such as video editing (except in Adobe premier), virtualization, modeling, etc.

The 2600 will be better at single-threaded workloads, such as anything with Adobe products, gaming, daily tasks, etc.

 

For daily tasks you won't see a difference between the two so pick for what it is you intend on doing. As a programmer, I'll shoot for the 1700 as it runs IDE's and test environments faster. That said, the 2600 has better RAM compatibility and is better for 95% of games.

 

 

[LightParticle]

13 hours ago, BigDamn said:

The 1700 will be better at multi-threaded workloads, such as video editing (except in Adobe premier), virtualization, modeling, etc.

The 2600 will be better at single-threaded workloads, such as anything with Adobe products, gaming, daily tasks, etc.

 

For daily tasks you won't see a difference between the two so pick for what it is you intend on doing. As a programmer, I'll shoot for the 1700 as it runs IDE's and test environments faster. That said, the 2600 has better RAM compatibility and is better for 95% of games.

 

 

 

Also, I heard this information. R5 2600 box will be serve you for a 3 years, but R7 1700 oem overclcoked to 3.7 may serve up to 5 years.

 

But... really? Maybe after 2-3 years from now 8-core processors maybe drop down their price for a like 6-core cost today. Or maybe next gen Zen2 processor will make more sense to buy in 2021-2022 yrs. than use an "old" R7 1700?

 

What do you think?

[trevb0t]

A silly difference really, but as the performance is up in the air: are you gonna have to buy a CPU cooler for your OEM 1700? 

 

That could offset the price $35+ for something moderate.

[LightParticle]

10 minutes ago, trevb0t said:

A silly difference really, but as the performance is up in the air: are you gonna have to buy a CPU cooler for your OEM 1700? 

 

That could offset the price $35+ for something moderate.

Yes, but I recently I found a good deal for Ryzen 7 1700 BOX for 35$ more than Ryzen 5 2600 BOX. 

[BigDamn]

58 minutes ago, LightParticle said:

 

Also, I heard this information. R5 2600 box will be serve you for a 3 years, but R7 1700 oem overclcoked to 3.7 may serve up to 5 years.

 

But... really? Maybe after 2-3 years from now 8-core processors maybe drop down their price for a like 6-core cost today. Or maybe next gen Zen2 processor will make more sense to buy in 2021-2022 yrs. than use an "old" R7 1700?

 

What do you think?

Depends what they mean by "serving for x years". There are still people who daily AMD FX CPU's (got one in my secondary rig actually) which came out in 2012. Even at launch the FX chips weren't very high end so to see them kicking for 7+ years is impressive.

 

Ryzen, being how its more powerful relative to its competition than FX was, should be able to serve you for many more than 2-3 years. The 1700 is the more powerful chip so its likely it will serve you longer, but I would still vouch for whatever chip fits your current needs.