[SOLVED] Was planning to buy Ryzen 5 1600, but the Ryzen 5 3500 is available now

[akaikisaki]

Hello Guys,

Like the title says, I was planning to buy Ryzen 5 1600, but the Ryzen 5 3500 is available now in India.

Link for your referral:
https://www.amazon.in/AMD-Generatio...en+5+3600&qid=1574875095&s=electronics&sr=1-4

The details that I know about are:

1600 - 3.2ghz (base) - 3.6ghz (turbo) with 6 cores and 12 threads
3500 - 3.6ghz (base) - 4.1 ghz (turbo) with 6 cores and 6 threads

3500 is not even mentioned in the AMD's website. There is just the 3500U model.

Searching the internet, I got to know that the 3500 has been termed as an OEM, which, apart from the fullform, I don't know what exactly that means.

So could you please help me with this.

PS. I do know about the 2600 and the 3600, but I cannot buy them right now for the current price here. Expanding my budget from 1600 to 3500 is the only thing I can do right now.

 

[akaikisaki]

BTW: someone with more GPU experience may have more info, but I'm gonna say that a 1050 (non-ti, 2GB) will be the bottle-neck in most any game. Most likely even at 1080p, medium settings and getting more so at higher settings or 1440+, where the card will be hitting PCie pretty hard. 720p, i'm not sure and probably depends more on title... they may actually be a good pairing at 720p.

Okay.

Well, if this situation arises, I would happily lower the resolution and settings in order to get the playable FPS. Hope that will solve the issue..

 

[akaikisaki]

so, a new cpu is great, but if it is a gaming pc, the gpu if is old, perhaps will need to be updated in a near future, to take advantage of the new cpu power you will be buying

Okay.

Well, it's not even been 2 months since I bought this GPU.

And it has just been 2 weeks since I have started thinking about Future proofing. If I had thought about it earlier, I would've bought a GTX 1660 or an RX 580. But yeah, I couldn't at that time. 😞.

As for the GPU compromising the CPU performance resulting in Stuttering and FPS, all I can do for the time being is lower the game settings.

 

[atljsf]

to be honest, when one has a tight budget, is almost impossible to plan ahead, 2 or 3 years

if you go with the r5, that cpu should serve you well for at least 3 ore years, minimum, but a budget gpu barely will do good now, in 3 years it will not be a even valid option for a potato pc, all depends on the next wave of console games with ryzen, how they move the market, and they will move it alot, that is guaranteed

even if you have now a bad gpu, you wil squeeze every drop it can offer with that r5, so later you can think on a newer gpu, or perhaps you see that the purchase you made 2 months ago will be enough for at least a year, or more, all depends on what you play and how high are your expectations

 

[akaikisaki]

to be honest, when one has a tight budget, is almost impossible to plan ahead, 2 or 3 years

if you go with the r5, that cpu should serve you well for at least 3 ore years, minimum, but a budget gpu barely will do good now, in 3 years it will not be a even valid option for a potato pc, all depends on the next wave of console games with ryzen, how they move the market, and they will move it alot, that is guaranteed

even if you have now a bad gpu, you wil squeeze every drop it can offer with that r5, so later you can think on a newer gpu, or perhaps you see that the purchase you made 2 months ago will be enough for at least a year, or more, all depends on what you play and how high are your expectations

I would be very happy if my current GPU can atleast let me play games without lags, settings won't be an issue for me. For the time being, low to medium settings are also fine for me.

If it doesn't, then I'll try to sell the GPU and get a new one, probably the GTX 1660. From what I've read, I guess it is better option than an RX 580/90 because of it's low power consumption and slightly better or similar performance at the similar price range.

For now, if my GPU can provide playable FPS even for a year, I would be very happy. There are so many games since 2012 which I haven't played on PC. I switched to PS3 for year, then for almost a year, I was playing PUBG mobile. So I will be starting with the older games and just hope that the gaming would be smooth enough for atleast the older games.

 

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If it doesn't, then I'll try to sell the GPU and get a new one, probably the GTX 1660. From what I've read, I guess it is better option than an RX 580/90 because of it's low power consumption and slightly better or similar performance at the similar price range.

The plain 1660 is obsolete, better off getting the much cheaper yet nearly as fast 1650 Super or possibly the RX5500/5500XT which should be launching next week. Other potential candidates would be the faster 1660 Super and the RX5600/5600XT which may be launching at January's CES.

 

[lqw24]

Only in china,you can buy the 3500X

 

[akaikisaki]

The plain 1660 is obsolete, better off getting the much cheaper yet nearly as fast 1650 Super or possibly the RX5500/5500XT which should be launching next week. Other potential candidates would be the faster 1660 Super and the RX5600/5600XT which may be launching at January's CES.

Okay. Will keep that in mind. And thanks for telling me about the upcoming AMDs.

I guess in one years' time, there would be other options for me to consider when I'm buying a new GPU.

 

[akaikisaki]

Only in china,you can buy the 3500X

Yes. The 3500X is not available here. I don't even know how they got hold of the 3500 as well which was supposed to be an OEM. My only option would be to buy one and validate the Serial Number with the AMD service center and if they say that it's covered under full 3 years'warranty from AMD and not the retailer warranty, then I'll keep it. It's a good thing 1600 is also available as a backup if 3500 doesn't work out.