Question I5-6500 or Ryzen 3 3200g for my Gtx 1060 3gb ?

[Oogaboogaaa]

Hi , i've got 2 options right now and i cant change anything about them , they're Either :

-Mobo : H110
CPU : I5-6500
Ram : 16 gb ddr4
Psu : Cooler master 450 Watt
+ 240 ssd
Price : 180$

Or the 2nd option is :
Mobo : Unknown
CPU : Ryzen 3 3200g
Ram : 16 gb ddr4
Psu : Mag A550BNL
+ 2 Tb Hdd 128 ssd
Price : 210$ but i can negociate


Please if u can suggest which of them i should buy to pair with a gtx 1060 3gb aero for gaming

 

[Aeacus]

R3 3200G and i5-6500 are essentially equal, where R3 3200G is slightly better. So, pairing either of them with GTX 1060 3GB doesn't matter.

As of gaming, you could expect ~40-50 FPS on 1080p.

I also had GTX 1060 3GB with my i5-6600K from 2016-2020. It was good for 1080p. Since 2020, i upgraded my GPU to GTX 1660 Ti, which i have in use to this day. CPU is still i5-6600K.

As of your two options, 128GB SSD is way too small for OS and games. And it will be slow going to have your games on HDD. So, 240GB SSD in Intel build would be better. This way, you'd have some room for games as well. But you could always buy new, 1TB SATA SSD for OS and games (or even M.2 drive when MoBo supports it).
(I had 500GB M.2 PCI-E 3.0 drive when i was running my GTX 1060 3GB, but i now have 2TB M.2 PCI-E 3.0 drive for OS and games).

 

[dontlistentome]

I have used a 500 gb SSD for the OS plus programs, plus one large game at a time(such as GTA V), with two 1tb hard drives for everything else. This way the OS loads fast, my programs load fast, and whichever game I'm currently playing most loads fast. I don't mind playing games off the hard drives since those are the games I don't play often. This system works great for me.

This is why I'd pick the AMD system if I was in your position. You get a much smaller SSD but it's fine for your OS so your computer will boot up fast. Then you just run everything off the 2 tb hard drive. Yes you will suffer a bit, but only until you pick up a better SSD that can fit a game or two on it. These days you'll be buying a 500 gb SSD at the very minimum. With the Intel system you get a bigger SSD but it's only 240 gb. One game of around 150 gb will eat up most of that space so it's not really a permanent solution. You'll still want to buy a bigger SSD and you'll still need to buy more storage space if you want terabytes of storage. So in the short term the Intel system will load more things faster but in the long term it's going to cost you more. If you don't play large games or don't need that much storage, then the Intel system makes more sense to me.

 

[BFG-9000]

I would find out what motherboard the 3200g system has and see if it's compatible with 5800X3D. Eventually that will become cheap enough to buy used, and would greatly extend the useful lifespan of that system out to perhaps 10 years from now. The Intel system is already 9 years old now and not supported by Windows 11, so presumably should be moved off of Windows after EOL for Windows 10 on Oct 14, 2025.

Even the cheapest A320 or oldest B350 or X370 chipsets for 3200g do now support X3D chips, but that requires updated BIOS support, which if it's a prebuilt motherboard such as Dell or HP, may not be available. But at least could run Windows in 2026. I don't expect the linux gaming situation then to be much different than now.