Upgrade from Ryzen 3 1200 for a kids gaming PC

[916Mick]

The wife isnt worth it

You, Sir, are very brave or very stupid.

 

[916Mick]

Mind you , we all know the way to a womens heart is through your wallet

 

[Salty22]

You, Sir, are very brave or very stupid.

Both I think lol.

Mind you , we all know the way to a womens heart is through your wallet

Joint account, less aggro for me haha.
Shes happy playing older games anyway, shes spent nearly 1000 hours on skyrim in the last few months

 

[mickyflinn]

Had the brainstorm earlier that my wifes got a 3600 in her rig, might take that to put in the kids pc and get her a 5600

Put the ryzen 3 1200 in your wife's pc and see if she notices any diffrence

 

[Salty22]

Dont think either her or the kids would notice any differences, I only upgrade their pcs so theyre not annoyingly slow when i need to (often) fix things theyve broken lol

 

[Cyber-Mav]

new mobo means all cards are on the table. intel becomes an option too then.

 

[subbytna]

Both I think lol.

Joint account, less aggro for me haha.
Shes happy playing older games anyway, shes spent nearly 1000 hours on skyrim in the last few months

1000 hours in a few months....no sandwiches being made in your house????

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Both I think lol.

Joint account, less aggro for me haha.
Shes happy playing older games anyway, shes spent nearly 1000 hours on skyrim in the last few months

If she plays older games,a Core i3 12100F and a cheap H510 motherboard for her system might be a better upgrade. Creation Engine based games such as Skyrim/Fallout 4 don't thread well and perform better on Intel CPUs. Then put the Ryzen 5 3600 and motherboard in your kids system??

The other alternative is get a Ryzen 5 5500,which should be a bit better than a Ryzen 5 3600(but it lacks L3 cache so is much slower than a Ryzen 5 5600 even though it is Zen3).

 

[TrojanWhore]

Yes, the beta is there, and it works fine on the AB350M which is basically the same board, but some people prefer not to use the BETA's, it's important to use the 7.00 bridge BIOS before applying 7.03 as well or it will not work. I'm fine using BETA but won't apply them to other people machines, unless they are happy with potential instability.

AFAIK, BIOS with 5xxx support on 300 series chipsets will always beta only. I AM WRONG PLEASE IGNORE!

FWIW I've had almost zero issues on my x370 taichi running a beta (I have had around 3 crashes in 3 months, but I think these are just as likely to be something else - 14yo PSU or the fact that I'm using RAM at timings I hadn't previously tested)

Completely agree in principle though if it's a system for someone where you don't want to end up troubleshooting endlessly!

 

[Journey]

AFAIK, BIOS with 5xxx support on 300 series chipsets will always beta only.

Nope many boards now have full official support, non-BETA, from A320, B350, and X370, I'e probably updated 20+ systems now with new CPU's and BIOS's, and boards that odn't yet have it are being done a bit at a time.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Appears you are correct, could've sworn I'd read somewhere it was beta only...Just checked the page for my board and there is now a 7.10 non-beta