Ryzen 5 1600 still worth it?

[inflames]

Just wondering if buying a Ryzen 5 1600 for about £100 is still worth it or if I should cough up the extra and go for the later editions? I am currently pricing up a budget build for gaming and general use.

 

[pooley]

you can get a 2600 for 15 quid more, i'd go for one of those

 

[inflames]

That’s my thinking for the extra cost.

 

[ExoMale]

Depends what board your using? If you using less than a 400 series board then you will need a 1st gen cpu unless the board is used then might be a chance the seller updated the bios, either of the 1st gen are still good to buy, just have to try pay what you feel unless it’s the 1200 then £52 new is a no brainier ha

 

[keylion]

you can get a 2600 for 15 quid more, i'd go for one of those

Definitely this, providing your board can take it as mentioned above.

 

[Steveocee]

1600's are going for 60-70 second hand. Crazy to spend £100 on a new one!

 

[ljt]

1600's are going for 60-70 second hand. Crazy to spend £100 on a new one!

Yup I sold my 1600x for £70, look about 2nd hand!

 

[willhub]

Depends what board your using? If you using less than a 400 series board then you will need a 1st gen cpu unless the board is used then might be a chance the seller updated the bios, either of the 1st gen are still good to buy, just have to try pay what you feel unless it’s the 1200 then £52 new is a no brainier ha

Lower than 400 series is fine with 2nd and 3rd gen.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

What's the difference with 1600 and 2600 in performance. I thought it was just a few percent.

 

[d_brennen]

What's the difference with 1600 and 2600 in performance. I thought it was just a few percent.

10% give or take

 

[eeii]

What's the difference with 1600 and 2600 in performance. I thought it was just a few percent.

Gaming performance is much improved.

 

[NinjaCool]

For a gaming build I would take the 2600 over the 1600 since the refresh got some nice speed improvements to make it worth it.

 

[willhub]

Well I find with my 3700, at first not much in a game like Cities Skylines, but now it's about 10fps faster and loads much quicker.

1600 to 3700x, now 2600 though.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Well I find with my 3700, at first not much in a game like Cities Skylines, but now it's about 10fps faster and loads much quicker.

1600 to 3700x, now 2600 though.

Why did you go back to a 2600? What you do tou have and what would you say was the drop in performance going from the 3700x to 2600

 

[MaXxBoulton]

10% give or take

Gaming performance is much improved.

So the extra few £££'s is worth it in this case

 

[willhub]

Why did you go back to a 2600? What you do tou have and what would you say was the drop in performance going from the 3700x to 2600

Sorry typo I meant "not 2600 though" as in wasn't really a valid comparison for your question.

The IPC improvements from 2 series to 3 series were supposed to be quite substantial and give a good boost to gaming. If affordable I would certainly skip 2nd gen and go to 3rd gen Ryzens like a 3600 or 3700 as they are great at 1080/1440p res, less so but still improvement there at 4k.

 

[eeii]

So the extra few £££'s is worth it in this case

Yes they made some big improvements in latency which really boosted gaming performance.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Yes they made some big improvements in latency which really boosted gaming performance.

Thanks for reply

 

[eeii]

No problem

 

[MaXxBoulton]

So if building a mid range 1080 gaming system to play game like apex and fortnight the 2600 would be a good cpu