Will ryzen 5 1600 last for a while

[yonan_decouter13]

So i build a pc, with ryzen 5 1600 and a 1060 6gb. Now my friend wants to build one to, but a friend of his stepdad made a list of parts and i found that it's a hard bottle neck,
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i told him to get the same parts as me but he isn't sure. He's says that that friend of his stepdad says that ryzen 5 1600 won't last for another year.

How long will this cpu last and give me some arguments to convince him and his stepdad

 

[Gadhar]

LOL that is absurd. The 1600 will be a fine chip for years. There is always new tech around the corner that will be a bit faster and with a feature or two that is new or improved, but the cpu will be fine. I currently have the 1600 and I use it for gaming and work and I expect to use it for years to come.

That is the most frustrating thing about technology. You will never have the latest and greatest for long and you can very easily go broke trying to do so. Your friend would be fine with the 1600, but I always get the most current chip available for a new build and so should your friend if his budget can afford it. I hope this helps.

One last thing, no one knows how long a cpu will be viable, but its more than 1 or 2 years. My spud in my bedroom is rocking an FX 8350 with a gtx 750ti and it can still play GTA V, War Thunder, Civ 5 and 6....granted on lower settings, but I have had that system for over 4 years and I still use it daily. Let your friends dad know that with the multiple cores will give the chip a nice long life, but if he wants to buy the latest and greatest then let him. It's his money after all and not yours.

 

[NightAntilli]

You don't have to worry. The R5 1600 will last 5 years easy.

 

[Corwin65]

That system to me is not well balanced between the CPU and GPU. An i7 8700 with a GTX 1050?

Your friend will have the superior CPU, and yes, yours will definitely last a few years, but his GPU is severely weaker than yours. You will probably beat him out in all games.

Not to mention his SSD is only 120GB.

 

[victor.bettenhausen]

I'm not certain what he means by "won't last for another year." If he means the cpu will quit working within a year, that's probably not true unless he were to buy a defective one which does happen from time to time. My experience over the past 20 years with numerous AMD and Intel cpu's is that they are pretty hard to kill. I'm not aware of any issues with the Ryzen 5 1600 that would cause it to die prematurely. If it does die within a year, it's covered under AMD's 3 year warranty. When AMD released the Athlon 64 chips in the early 2000's, I intentionally tried to fry one. I removed the heatsink/fan from the cpu and turned the system on to see if the thermal protection really worked, or if it would indeed burn up. I was pleased that the protection worked as advertised by shutting the system down with no damage to the chip.

If he's talking about this cpu being relevant in the market in a year, that may be true. AMD has already released some of their Ryzen2 chips, which are better than the first generation chips. If I were going to build a system today with an AMD cpu, it would make sense to go with their 2nd generation chip and a motherboard with a 370, or 470 chipset.

 

[SkyBill40]

That friend of his stepdad hasn't a clue what he's speaking about to be honest. That CPU will be fine for 5 years or more. For that matter, my FX8350 still works just fine and I've had it for 6+ years now.

If you're going to get a new processor and the cost differential isn't too steep, you'd be better to get the R5 2600. Might was well get the newest version if that's an option.

 

[cryoburner]

If the system is intended to be used for gaming, investing more in the graphics card would likely be the better option. While an 8700 is a good CPU, and will likely provide a bit better performance than a 1600 years down the line, it is also priced a lot higher. And that extra performance would only be available if the graphics card isn't the limiting factor in performance. An 8700 might have the potential to be around 15-20% faster than a 1600, but you would currently need a high-end graphics card combined with a high refresh rate screen to even see that difference in the vast majority of games. A 1060 compared to a 1050, on the other hand, is a lot more capable, and will get over 50% higher frame rates in most modern games at 1080p resolution or higher.

Of course, there are other options as well. Rather than a 1060 6GB, a 1060 3GB might be a more cost-effective option, while only being around 10% slower than the full version of the card in most titles. I notice that the build includes a more expensive Z-series motherboard, but the main features of that chipset are support for overclocking and multiple GPUs, but neither the 8700 or the 1050/1060 support those features, so a B360 motherboard might work just as well, and could potentially free up enough of the budget to move up to a 1060 3GB, while still keeping the 8700. I'm not sure if the site where the system is being configured would offer those options though. A Ryzen 2600X build could be another decent option as well, and should fall between the 1600 and the 8700 in terms of both price and performance.