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Would you buy a R5 2600 now?

Ok.

I'm pretty sure i'm not going Ryzen 3000 and Navi now, not worth the extra £££, especially not at launch or near it. Just bought the Auros Monitor in sig and luckily got a perfect panel.

I already had this RAM at the ready:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...black-red-tdprd416g30-my-071-tg.html#comments (paid £100)

I'm looking at this MSI mobo, which seems to be as good as anything at the price point, unless anyone has any better ideas? I'm thinking I can drop a 3000 in later when they're cheaper.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33s-ms.html

I'm not a big OC'er and only interested in gaming performance really, just wondering whether it's worth going for the 2600x over the 2600? - I'm thinking probably not and hoping the Stealth cooler is going to be sufficient for a while, if not i'm going to drop this in.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...m-refurbished-cw-9060027-ww-rf-hs-03u-cs.html

I bought a referb Corsair from here about 5 years ago and it's still going strong!

I've got the card in sig which I'm going to hold onto for a while until the GPU market settles, and in the mean time I should get a bit of a gaming boost with new CPU etc

So i'm looking at spending about £360 on RAM/CPU/MOBO.

Thoughts?
 
well my stuff arrived, seems the cooler isn't 2019 stock though :/ so Ive just sent in a request for a free am4 kit from noctua, make do with the stock one for now

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I think i tried to get a AM4 kit for my NH-D14 last year but if i remember correctly they said there wasnt one or they wasnt doing one but i could be wrong with my bad memory.
 
Journey said:
FYI that Noctua should have come with it's own tube of thermal paste, NT-H1 or NT-H2 which is as good as MX4. :)
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ye it did, wasn't sure if it was any good though so went for some mx4 was only £4 ish so no worries

chippy08 said:
I think i tried to get a AM4 kit for my NH-D14 last year but if i remember correctly they said there wasnt one or they wasnt doing one but i could be wrong with my bad memory.
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they definitely do one, https://noctua.at/en/which-noctua-cpu-coolers-are-compatible-with-amd-am4-ryzen
 
bee said:
well my stuff arrived, seems the cooler isn't 2019 stock though :/ so Ive just sent in a request for a free am4 kit from noctua, make do with the stock one for now
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yeah thats rather pants, you'd think the person picking it would have noticed it was for a am4 system and picked a newer one with am4 or even have a bundle of them in stock to send out.
 
that was pretty painless, just wasn't sure on boot from uefi:usb key or boot from usb key and the backplate for securing the cooler isn't actually stuck on? it just falls off when remove the stock plastic brackets, managed it but thought it was weird

took 1.5hrs to dust/clean it (thought it deserved it after 8 years :p ) and 45mins to build it haha

not had an amd since athlon64 3200! anything i need to do specifically for amd? i've just installed the chipset drivers so far
 
Both mates did end up going for the Ryzen 2600 in the end. As you'd expect from what they've upgraded from, the speed increase has been very noticeable.
Ridiculously good value CPU tbh.
 
It's a very nice cup cooler but on that cpu it's not needed. You could have just a £20 tower cooler and got just a good temps. Even overclockers your cpu will run good temps.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Both mates did end up going for the Ryzen 2600 in the end. As you'd expect from what they've upgraded from, the speed increase has been very noticeable.
Ridiculously good value CPU tbh.
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ye that's what i'm finding, not even overclocked it yet due to the cooler just set the memory to 3200mhz and i'm seeing 60-100% fps increase (from a 3570k) in apex legends@1440p and all the parts cost significantly less than a 8700k on its own

MaXxBoulton said:
It's a very nice cup cooler but on that cpu it's not needed. You could have just a £20 tower cooler and got just a good temps. Even overclockers your cpu will run good temps.
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my last cooler lasted me 11 years or so, the plan is for this to last a similar time and to use it on a 3700x/3800x next year, was only £55 so not too bad
 
Darujhistan said:
Ok.

I'm pretty sure i'm not going Ryzen 3000 and Navi now, not worth the extra £££, especially not at launch or near it. Just bought the Auros Monitor in sig and luckily got a perfect panel.

I already had this RAM at the ready:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...black-red-tdprd416g30-my-071-tg.html#comments (paid £100)

I'm looking at this MSI mobo, which seems to be as good as anything at the price point, unless anyone has any better ideas? I'm thinking I can drop a 3000 in later when they're cheaper.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33s-ms.html

I'm not a big OC'er and only interested in gaming performance really, just wondering whether it's worth going for the 2600x over the 2600? - I'm thinking probably not and hoping the Stealth cooler is going to be sufficient for a while, if not i'm going to drop this in.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...m-refurbished-cw-9060027-ww-rf-hs-03u-cs.html

I bought a referb Corsair from here about 5 years ago and it's still going strong!

I've got the card in sig which I'm going to hold onto for a while until the GPU market settles, and in the mean time I should get a bit of a gaming boost with new CPU etc

So i'm looking at spending about £360 on RAM/CPU/MOBO.

Thoughts?
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I'm planning to do the same but I'm waiting until Ryzen 3000 launches so I can check reviews and compatibility when using the 12 and 16 core CPUs in current cheap B450 and X370 boards so I've got a guaranteed upgrade route in a few years time.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
I'm planning to do the same but I'm waiting until Ryzen 3000 launches so I can check reviews and compatibility when using the 12 and 16 core CPUs in current cheap B450 and X370 boards so I've got a guaranteed upgrade route in a few years time.
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I didn't think considering what I'd do when I wanted a 12 or 16 core CPU was near enough in the future to worry about to be honest. Very happy with what I bought, I got MOBO/CPU/RAM for what a mid range X570 is going to cost on its own. Unless you really need the extra features its not worth it. The OC'ing enthusiats on here will get their money's worth out of bleeding edge tech, but I wouldn't have so I bought a cost effective gaming upgrade, that i'll complete with a GPU when the dust settles, it looks like Vega 56 is going to be impossibe to beat on price/performance but want all the options on the table.

I did mess up the Cooler mind you, it's too big for my case! I was sure my last rad was 280! So looking around for something else, I want something quiet!
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Couple of friends have reached the end of the road with their setups. One is on an A10 7850K and the other still on an A8 6600K, really got the moneys worth from it!

The 2600 looks to be an excellent price in the UK at the moment, and would be a massive step up from both CPUs. Just not sure if it's the best thing to be buying with the successors coming out in a couple months.
Price is one of the most important factors in one of the builds, so would you wait for what's coming out and hope for decent pricing, or would you buy a known good CPU at their current price?

For those who have it, how is the stock cooler with the 2600?
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I have the spire cooler from the 1700 and 2600x and that is very solid and good. Impressive.
 
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