[SOLVED] What do I have to upgrade to use the Ryzen 5 3600

[isilen]

I have a budget of around $450 - $500 and I want to get the Ryzen 5 3600 but not sure what motherboard to get. Should I upgrade my case and mb to a normal atx size? Also where is the link to buy the Ryzen 3600?

My pc right now: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4rpyJ8

 

[Gmoney06ss]

I would say upgrading the case would be personal preference, as there are a few good matx boards for ryzen. The only thing you may be limited on is cooler space, but the stock cooler isn't terrible. Other than that I would get 16gb of ram, 3200mhz at least.
https://www.newegg.com/corsair-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820233859 or similar. As well as an ssd, if you don't currently have one.

 

[isilen]

Which motherboard would be good for the ryzen 5 3600. Any reccomendations or suggestions?

 

[InvalidError]

You should be able to get the new CPUs anywhere you normally buy PC parts from. For the motherboard, I'd recommend waiting a week or two for more sites to re-review b450 motherboards with Ryzen 3k CPUs.

Personally, I'd just wait until b550 motherboards become available instead of dealing with backwards compatibility quirks and possibly hit-or-miss BIOS support which could mean having to jump through additional hoops ('AMD bootkit' or similar) to get the board up to speed.

 

[GoodGuyMo]

Which motherboard would be good for the ryzen 5 3600. Any reccomendations or suggestions?

You should get a b450 or x470, I have a b450 tomahawk motherboard and I haven’t had any issues since getting it. But they’re both arc so if you want a really good tax case that’s cheap for as good as it is than get the NZXT h500 and if you want rgb in it than get the NZXT h500i which is like $30 more. Also get 16gb 3200 ram. I have Corsair vengeance lpx 16gb (2x8) 3200 MHz ram and it’s good too.

 

[ConanLock]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PDY4yX how does this look? The motherboard supports MSI Flashback, and so can be updated to the newest BIOS before you insert the CPU. Then, once it has updated, the CPU will be supported and this will work fine.

 

[isilen]

You should be able to get the new CPUs anywhere you normally buy PC parts from. For the motherboard, I'd recommend waiting a week or two for more sites to re-review b450 motherboards with Ryzen 3k CPUs.

Personally, I'd just wait until b550 motherboards become available instead of dealing with backwards compatibility quirks and possibly hit-or-miss BIOS support which could mean having to jump through additional hoops ('AMD bootkit' or similar) to get the board up to speed.

Cant really update the bios with my intel cpu so I guess I have to wait for the new motherboards to come out.
When are the new motherboards coming out?

 

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When are the new motherboards coming out?

Motherboard vendors started shipping 300/400-series motherboards with updated BIOS about a month ago, the difficulty lies in finding those clearly labeled as updated. For the B500-series motherboard, AMD is allegedly waiting on ASMedia to finish validating its PCIe 4.0 implementation and the best-case ETA is late this year, which may very well mean early 2020 for B500-series motherboards, much later than I would have liked.