Budget gaming CPUs

[Tang3r]

I am trying to build a budget pc and i was wondering if these budget CPUs are great for 1080p gaming and which is best in price to performance?

 

ryzen 3 4100 for 70-85$

ryzen 5 4500 for 90$

ryzen 5 3600 for around 90-100$ (excluding cooler)

ryzen 5 5500 for 110$

[Tang3r]

3 minutes ago, Tang3r said:

I am trying to build a budget pc and i was wondering if these budget CPUs are great for 1080p gaming and which is best in price to performance?

 

ryzen 3 4100 for 70-85$

ryzen 5 4500 for 90$

ryzen 5 3600 for around 90-100$ (excluding cooler)

ryzen 5 5500 for 110$

You guys can mention Intel CPUs as well

[SorryBella]

6 minutes ago, Tang3r said:

ryzen 5 3600 for around 90-100$ (excluding cooler)

ryzen 5 5500 for 110$

Boxed used 3600 is 100$, why the fuck would it be sold tray? In this case 5500 wins by default solely because you wont need another 20$ to spend on the cooler. Skip all the Zen 2 refresh of 4000 series, just go for its 3000 counterparts instead.

[Dedayog]

12 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Boxed used 3600 is 100$, why the fuck would it be sold tray? In this case 5500 wins by default solely because you wont need another 20$ to spend on the cooler. Skip all the Zen 2 refresh of 4000 series, just go for its 3000 counterparts instead.

Would the 5600 be worth the upcharge over the 5500?  Cooler included too, if I recall.

[PDifolco]

23 minutes ago, Tang3r said:

I am trying to build a budget pc and i was wondering if these budget CPUs are great for 1080p gaming and which is best in price to performance?

 

ryzen 3 4100 for 70-85$

ryzen 5 4500 for 90$

ryzen 5 3600 for around 90-100$ (excluding cooler)

ryzen 5 5500 for 110$

R5 5500 or (even better) i3-13100, old Ryzens aren't very good at gaming compared to newer chips

[SorryBella]

33 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Would the 5600 be worth the upcharge over the 5500?  Cooler included too, if I recall.

I mean depends on op's region here and how much of an upcharge would that be. 30$-45$ US upcharge would be max cutoff personally before id just consider overclocking the shit out of that 5500 to compensate for the crippled cache, but if OP isnt comfortable with that, then it would atleast be better deal than the 50-75$ upcharge between 5600 and 5600X.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Tang3r said:

ryzen 3 4100 for 70-85$

ryzen 5 4500 for 90$

These are garbage and can be ignored, no amount of clocking the rams to 4533 (iirc fclk maxes around 2200-2266 on these renoir) and overclocking the cpu to a meager 4.4-4.5ghz will make up for that quartered 8mb of cache

 

1 hour ago, Tang3r said:

ryzen 5 3600 for around 90-100$ (excluding cooler)

Look for a used one, if you find one for 80-90$ used go for it, 5500 performs a tad better though

 

And cooler wise if you really needed to save money theres always just buying a 775 copper core for 2$ and ziptieing it onto your cpu (should easily crush the wraith stealth in terms of cooling performance)

[Tang3r]

2 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

These are garbage and can be ignored, no amount of clocking the rams to 4533 (iirc fclk maxes around 2200-2266 on these renoir) and overclocking the cpu to a meager 4.4-4.5ghz will make up for that quartered 8mb of cache

 

Look for a used one, if you find one for 80-90$ used go for it, 5500 performs a tad better though

 

And cooler wise if you really needed to save money theres always just buying a 775 copper core for 2$ and ziptieing it onto your cpu (should easily crush the wraith stealth in terms of cooling performance)

So the ryzen 5 5500 is the best option? (brand new)

[Somerandomtechyboi]

2 hours ago, Tang3r said:

So the ryzen 5 5500 is the best option? (brand new)

Yes in terms of performance

Although if the 3600 is 20$+ cheaper than  the 5500 then get the 3600 instead