Loving my new Ryzen 5 2600 build

[duplexmortician]

Decided to sell my i7 Ivy Bridge laptop and build with the funds from that.  It was a $1000 laptop and I upgraded it with 16gb ram (from 6gb), SSD, second HDD, etc.  Anyway I figure it is worth about $600 and so that is the budget I decided on for the new build.

I found a Thermaltake Core V21 cube case on sale for $50 at amazon, and I love the Core X71 that I put my Threadripper 1950x build in, so I decided to try the little cube case.  That limited my MB choices to ITX or microATX, which was fine since I wanted a compact build.  I wanted built-in wifi so after a lot of shopping around I decided on the ASRock B450m/AC microATX board.  It fit the budget and had no unneeded features.  

In terms of CPU I waited specifically for the 3000-series chips to launch, so I could grab a previous-gen chip off ebay cheap.  Which I did. The used Ryzen 5 2600 fit the budget perfectly and seemed like a solid choice for gaming.  Speaking of which I found a really cheap used GTX 1060 6gb, which also fit into the budget nicely.  All told I got it done for $14 under my $600 budget and I have replaced a slow(ish) laptop that could barely play games (has GTX 650M) with a capable gaming rig for 1080p and medium+ settings.  Plus I can play youtube and load web pages at the same time without the youtube stream stuttering like hell.

[Turtle Rig]

1 hour ago, duplexmortician said:

Decided to sell my i7 Ivy Bridge laptop and build with the funds from that.  It was a $1000 laptop and I upgraded it with 16gb ram (from 6gb), SSD, second HDD, etc.  Anyway I figure it is worth about $600 and so that is the budget I decided on for the new build.

I found a Thermaltake Core V21 cube case on sale for $50 at amazon, and I love the V71 that I put my Threadripper 1950x build in, so I decided to try the little cube case.  That limited my MB choices to ITX or microATX, which was fine since I wanted a compact build.  I wanted built-in wifi so after a lot of shopping around I decided on the ASRock B450m/AC microATX board.  It fit the budget and had no unneeded features.  

In terms of CPU I waited specifically for the 3000-series chips to launch, so I could grab a previous-gen chip off ebay cheap.  Which I did. The used Ryzen 5 2600 fit the budget perfectly and seemed like a solid choice for gaming.  Speaking of which I found a really cheap used GTX 1060 6gb, which also fit into the budget nicely.  All told I got it done for $14 under my $600 budget and I have replaced a slow(ish) laptop that could barely play games (has GTX 650M) with a capable gaming rig for 1080p and medium+ settings.  Plus I can play youtube and load web pages at the same time without the youtube stream stuttering like hell.

That Ivy Bridge if not overclocked is no good.  Base clock of 3.4Ghz is way to slow, so its a fair upgrade but sorta a side grade except for the video card as well,, that is good,, Youll be a whole new world,, no phun,,, You will like it,,,,,,, 1080p is what the 1060 6GB is for.  You can even use some AA methods and get great fps in AAA titles.  You will be 60fps sustained on most AAA titles.  So your set.  The video card is a big upgrade and not a side grade at all.  Other then that great build you got going.  enjoy it my friend.  God Bless!

[duplexmortician]

I actually swapped in a GTX 1080 I had in my recording/streaming PC last night.  The 1060 is going into the recording rig.  It should be ok since the 1080 only hits 3% utilization while recording 4k60 from my gaming rig.  SO much faster than the 1060 and can use Ultra quality textures thanks to the 8gb vram.  Not to mention Ultra everything else...  (I'm at 1440p)

[duplexmortician]

Also the Ivy Bridge laptop is a mobile chip so it only goes from 2.3-3.0ghz!  The Ryzen is a huge improvement!

[Mnky313]

15 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

That Ivy Bridge if not overclocked is no good.  Base clock of 3.4Ghz is way to slow, so its a fair upgrade but sorta a side grade except for the video card as well,, that is good,, Youll be a whole new world,, no phun,,, You will like it,,,,,,, 1080p is what the 1060 6GB is for.  You can even use some AA methods and get great fps in AAA titles.  You will be 60fps sustained on most AAA titles.  So your set.  The video card is a big upgrade and not a side grade at all.  Other then that great build you got going.  enjoy it my friend.  God Bless!

I'm actually quite impressed with my 3720qm (+400mhz OC) for a laptop CPU, it get similar performance to a 6700hq, but compared to desktop CPUs it's pretty bad.  Handily out performance by the $135 R5 2600.  If you don't need the portability then yeah the 2600 system is a pretty awesome deal.