R5 3600, good for gaming?

[JP Steyn]

Im want to build a new pc for me but in a comfortable price range. I want a AMD build and im stuck with the decision for the CPU. Is the R5 3600 a good enough CPU for gaming. Ps. I do not stream or do any media editing. Thanks

[toasty99]

Yes. It's fine. What GPU would you be pairing it with? 

 

It's important when building a PC to balance the CPU and GPU fairly evenly so you aren't overspending/underspending on one over the other. 

[Grabhanem]

2 minutes ago, JP Steyn said:

Im want to build a new pc for me but in a comfortable price range. I want a AMD build and im stuck with the decision for the CPU. Is the R5 3600 a good enough CPU for gaming. Ps. I do not stream or do any media editing. Thanks

The 3600 is an excellent gaming CPU, it should serve you well for years to come.

[Bossman12112]

Definitely a good enough cpu for gaming, especially since you're not doing any streaming or media editing.

[JP Steyn]

1 minute ago, Bossman12112 said:

Definitely a good enough cpu for gaming, especially since you're not doing any streaming or media editing.

Thanks for the fast help. Your awesome

 

[JP Steyn]

2 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

The 3600 is an excellent gaming CPU, it should serve you well for years to come.

Thank you very much. 

Thats what im looking for now. Maybe you have any suggestions. Im playing on a 1080p tv. Unfortunetaly i dont have a good monitor at this moment

 

[JP Steyn]

12 minutes ago, toasty99 said:

Yes. It's fine. What GPU would you be pairing it with? 

 

It's important when building a PC to balance the CPU and GPU fairly evenly so you aren't overspending/underspending on one over the other. 

Thats what im looking for now. Maybe you have any suggestions. Im playing on a 1080p tv. Unfortunetaly i dont have a good monitor at this moment

 

[Nightguest]

5 minutes ago, JP Steyn said:

Thats what im looking for now. Maybe you have any suggestions. Im playing on a 1080p tv. Unfortunetaly i dont have a good monitor at this moment

 

If you're looking for a 1080p graphics card, you are really spoilt for choice.

In the red corner, you have

 

Top of the range (but most expensive) RX 5600 XT, which will do 1080p high and even medium 1440p. I personally think that this is a great card.

You can drop a generation as well and look at the RX 570 4Gb or the RX 580 8Gb - they will serve you well, but the 570 may show its legs in a year or so.

If you find a good deal on a 590, that's also good!

 

In the green corner you have:

1660 Super for 1080p high and 1440p medium.

The 1650 Super is a step lower and aimed very squarely at 1080p and is also a great choice.

 

If you go back a generation, you have the 1060 6Gb and maybe the 1070 (if you find a good deal). Theoretically, there is also the 1050ti, however that has almost always been a terrible deal

 

The best advice is, see how much you can afford and then see what the prices of these cards are like in your area.

 

 

 

 

[toasty99]

 

11 minutes ago, Nightguest said:

If you're looking for a 1080p graphics card, you are really spoilt for choice.

In the red corner, you have

 

Top of the range (but most expensive) RX 5600 XT, which will do 1080p high and even medium 1440p. I personally think that this is a great card.

You can drop a generation as well and look at the RX 570 4Gb or the RX 580 8Gb - they will serve you well, but the 570 may show its legs in a year or so.

If you find a good deal on a 590, that's also good!

 

In the green corner you have:

1660 Super for 1080p high and 1440p medium.

The 1650 Super is a step lower and aimed very squarely at 1080p and is also a great choice.

 

If you go back a generation, you have the 1060 6Gb and maybe the 1070 (if you find a good deal). Theoretically, there is also the 1050ti, however that has almost always been a terrible deal

 

The best advice is, see how much you can afford and then see what the prices of these cards are like in your area.

 

 

 

 

This is good advice. A 980ti is a decent choice as well if the deal is really good. 

 

Personally I have trouble reccomending a 5600xt at its current price. It only has 6gb of Vram and you can pick up a Vega 64 for less money that has 8gb. For a tad more you can get a regular 5700. 6gb of Vram isn't a bottlneck now for 1080p or 1440p but is for 4k. It's going to increasingly become an issue. At the price of the 5600xt it gets hard to reccomend that card knowing other options in the price range have 8gb. 

[JP Steyn]

9 minutes ago, Nightguest said:

If you're looking for a 1080p graphics card, you are really spoilt for choice.

In the red corner, you have

 

Top of the range (but most expensive) RX 5600 XT, which will do 1080p high and even medium 1440p. I personally think that this is a great card.

You can drop a generation as well and look at the RX 570 4Gb or the RX 580 8Gb - they will serve you well, but the 570 may show its legs in a year or so.

If you find a good deal on a 590, that's also good!

 

In the green corner you have:

1660 Super for 1080p high and 1440p medium.

The 1650 Super is a step lower and aimed very squarely at 1080p and is also a great choice.

 

If you go back a generation, you have the 1060 6Gb and maybe the 1070 (if you find a good deal). Theoretically, there is also the 1050ti, however that has almost always been a terrible deal

 

The best advice is, see how much you can afford and then see what the prices of these cards are like in your area.

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for this information. I am so glad there are people like u that is clued up with tech. Im going to look into it and look how my price range going to fit. Thank once agian

[Jimkirk363]

The Ryzen 3600 is a great little chip.

 

My mate has the 2600 a generation behind which i built him last year and he games fine on it with a Nvidia 1060 Graphics Card.

 

My opinion on a graphics card at the moment if i was buying new i would look at the 2070 Super Range of Cards.

Ive had a look one one of the sites i buy from and they have 13 different models in stock from £469 to £560.

 

The Card is an 8GB GDDR6.

Edited March 27, 2020 by jimkirk363