Ryzen 5 5500/3600 or 5 4600g for budget build ?

[Krygmn]

I'm planning to build a budget pc, and i need your help to pick my cpu part as it is my first pc build. My budget is around 215$.

My main use of this pc would be programming, vm and maybe some light gaming when i got bored (as I mainly play games on my phone).

My main candidate as of right now would be ryzen 5 4600g (90$) or ryzen 5 5500/ 3600(83$). For the non-igpu build ill just buy some cheap used graphic card. I do plan to upgrade this build with some better graphic card later, in 2 years (maybe), but for now my budget is rather strict (need to pay my college tuition first).

should i go for the igpu build with 4600g or go with 5500/3600 as the price difference is rather small with 4600g already have radeon vega 7 ? And how much performance difference between 4600g and 5500/3600 in multitasking daily use ? Or should i reduce the budget for other part (like the ram/ motherboard)and go with ryzen 5 5600g ?

 

[filpo]

5 minutes ago, Krygmn said:

My budget is around 215$.

don't build it, get an old optiplex and put in a used 6400/1650/1050 (SFF if need be)

try this

Dell Optiplex 9020 Intel Core i5-4590@3.5GHz 8GB / 256 GB SSD / 500 GB HDD Win | eBay

ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 6400 4GB GDDR6 PCI ITX Video Card 4710483936944 | eBay

[Agall]

1 hour ago, Krygmn said:

I'm planning to build a budget pc, and i need your help to pick my cpu part as it is my first pc build. My budget is around 215$.

My main use of this pc would be programming, vm and maybe some light gaming when i got bored (as I mainly play games on my phone).

My main candidate as of right now would be ryzen 5 4600g (90$) or ryzen 5 5500/ 3600(83$). For the non-igpu build ill just buy some cheap used graphic card. I do plan to upgrade this build with some better graphic card later, in 2 years (maybe), but for now my budget is rather strict (need to pay my college tuition first).

should i go for the igpu build with 4600g or go with 5500/3600 as the price difference is rather small with 4600g already have radeon vega 7 ? And how much performance difference between 4600g and 5500/3600 in multitasking daily use ? Or should i reduce the budget for other part (like the ram/ motherboard)and go with ryzen 5 5600g ?

 

$215 isn't much of a budget. You'd be looking almost exclusively on the used market.

 

R5 5500 isn't that great of a CPU since its effectively an R5 5600G with the iGPU disabled. This makes it inferior to the R5 5600 in boost clocks and L3 cache which both matter for a gaming PC.

 

The 4600G might be tolerable for gaming, but not worth it in my opinoin.

 

5600G is better, but still not enough in my opinion. Considering the Intel Arc A380 exists that's sub $100 a lot of the time.

 

Its possible to just get an old office computer for like $50 and throw an RTX 3050 6GB in it for $180. Its one of the few newer GPUs that can just drop into anything that has UEFI firmware, being anything <12 years old or so.

[Krygmn]

48 minutes ago, filpo said:

don't build it, get an old optiplex and put in a used 6400/1650/1050 (SFF if need be)

try this

Dell Optiplex 9020 Intel Core i5-4590@3.5GHz 8GB / 256 GB SSD / 500 GB HDD Win | eBay

ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 6400 4GB GDDR6 PCI ITX Video Card 4710483936944 | eBay

Was thinking of buying a prebuild pc like this and slap some extra gpu, i can even play some modern games with this build and have fun.

But my main concern for now would be the performance of the cpu, as im learning mobile programming (that requires a huge resources) and cyber security for my main study in college. My laptop is already 5 years old and when i use it for vm or andoid studio its so slow. For the gpu, i dont really play pc games and when i play it, fps and graphic doesn't really matter to me as long its playable (like 30 fps lol).

How does i5-3470/90 fare with ryzen 5 5500/3600 or maybe i3-10100 ?

Huge thanks for the suggestion tho

[Krygmn]

24 minutes ago, Agall said:

$215 isn't much of a budget. You'd be looking almost exclusively on the used market.

 

R5 5500 isn't that great of a CPU since its effectively an R5 5600G with the iGPU disabled. This makes it inferior to the R5 5600 in boost clocks and L3 cache which both matter for a gaming PC.

 

The 4600G might be tolerable for gaming, but not worth it in my opinoin.

 

5600G is better, but still not enough in my opinion. Considering the Intel Arc A380 exists that's sub $100 a lot of the time.

 

Its possible to just get an old office computer for like $50 and throw an RTX 3050 6GB in it for $180. Its one of the few newer GPUs that can just drop into anything that has UEFI firmware, being anything <12 years old or so.

Yups, my budget is really tight in dollars lol.

I'm from indonesia, and the price for pc parts here are cheap especially for older product (new/boxed). So 215$ is still doable with new parts (well low-end parts).

My initial plan was : 

CPU: ryzen 5 4600g/ 3600/ 5500 ( new )

ram : 16gb dual channels gpx ( new )

psu : 500w deepcool ( new )

mobo : gigabyte b450m-k ( new )

Storage : ssd 128g& hdd 500g ( used )

and a cheap used casing.

Do you have any suggestions for the cpu parts or maybe the other parts ? 

Thanks for the suggestion tho

[Agall]

5 minutes ago, Krygmn said:

Yups, my budget is really tight in dollars lol.

I'm from indonesia, and the price for pc parts here are cheap especially for older product (new/boxed). So 215$ is still doable with new parts (well low-end parts).

My initial plan was : 

CPU: ryzen 5 4600g/ 3600/ 5500 ( new )

ram : 16gb dual channels gpx ( new )

psu : 500w deepcool ( new )

mobo : gigabyte b450m-k ( new )

Storage : ssd 128g& hdd 500g ( used )

and a cheap used casing.

Do you have any suggestions for the cpu parts or maybe the other parts ? 

Thanks for the suggestion tho

If a B550 board isn't much more, and you can go with the 3600, you'll dramatically increase the performance of most decent cards at the low end. A lot of newer cards are PCIe 4.0 8x, which has a noticeable performance loss when running at PCIe 3.0 8x. B550 and a 3600 would support that, the later wouldn't. Some cards are even PCIe 4.0 4x, which have even more of a dramatic loss when running PCIe 3.0 4x.