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I have been using the Ryzen 5 3600 processor
along with the asrock b450m steel legend and 16gb of coarsair vengeance 3000mhz ram for the past 2 months and I am very impressed with the price to performance ratio of this chip, seriously, I think this has the best "bang for your buck" of any CPU on the market from both intel and AMD.
Overclocking
Overclocking has never been a strength for Ryzen although I believe I got a reasonably capable chip and the better efficiency of the 7nm process node allows for you to expect an avg overclock of about ~5% with only a small voltage increase. Personally I managed to get 200mhz extra on all cores with very little tinkering and only a very small voltage change, but as I was still using the wraith stealth stock cooler I decided to stick with the stock speeds. I was very impressed with the power delivery of the VRMs on my motherboard and it is probably one of the best in this sector for its low price of £80. The ram was a different story though, with it being already reasonably fast at 3000mhz I did manage to get it to 3200mhz with timings of 14-14-14-42 but it did run a little hotter than I would have liked so I kept those tight timings but stuck with 3000mhz speed.
Performance Gain
I have been using the Ryzen 5 3600 processor
along with the asrock b450m steel legend and 16gb of coarsair vengeance 3000mhz ram for the past 2 months and I am very impressed with the price to performance ratio of this chip, seriously, I think this has the best "bang for your buck" of any CPU on the market from both intel and AMD.
Overclocking
Overclocking has never been a strength for Ryzen although I believe I got a reasonably capable chip and the better efficiency of the 7nm process node allows for you to expect an avg overclock of about ~5% with only a small voltage increase. Personally I managed to get 200mhz extra on all cores with very little tinkering and only a very small voltage change, but as I was still using the wraith stealth stock cooler I decided to stick with the stock speeds. I was very impressed with the power delivery of the VRMs on my motherboard and it is probably one of the best in this sector for its low price of £80. The ram was a different story though, with it being already reasonably fast at 3000mhz I did manage to get it to 3200mhz with timings of 14-14-14-42 but it did run a little hotter than I would have liked so I kept those tight timings but stuck with 3000mhz speed.
Performance Gain
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