Cpu

[ironer201]

Is it worthy to buy AMD Ryzen 5 3600X???

Or should i buy AMD Ryzen 5 3600

[SavageNeo]

3600 is more woth it. but if its at same price or under 20 dollar difference then get the 3600x

[Jurrunio]

Depends, the CPU themselves are barely faster with the X so most of that money goes to the slightly better stock cooler that still gets beaten by many cheap aftermarket solutions

[kevinisbeast707]

If you never want to overclock then the 3600x could be worth it. If you think you might upgrade to something better within the next year or so, feel like you might overclock the processor yourself, or are running a gpu lesser than probably an rtx 2060 super then the 3600 could be more worth it. The way Linus does it is to take the difference in prices between what your entire computer setup would be with and without the more expensive chip and see if the percentage difference is similar to how much more percentage wise you'd be spending extra.

 

ie: let's say that your entire setup would cost $600 with the 3600 and $630 with the 3600x. So you would take $630/$600=1.05 which means that in this instance the 3600x would make your build 5 percent more expensive overall. Now you take the games or apps that you'd like to use and try to find some benchmarks for them. If in this example it performs more than 5 percent better in games that you play then it is worth it to get the 3600x. If it is under 5 percent then you are paying for diminishing returns and it is then up to you if the smaller increase in performance for the price is worth it.