Zen2 really was the moment when Ryzen sorted the quirks and just became a brilliant line of CPUs. My 1600 was okay, my 3700X is just immense. Nice to see the 6 cores are still doing as good as the day they came out
For me: 1st gen Ryzen: as with every new endeavor, it was a bit buggy, not much close to Intel at gaming, but everyone knew it would be better in the future (at least when comparing i5 vs R5) 2nd gen Ryzen (zen+): was when Ryzen was starting the mindset, with even better prices, a bit more performance and MUCH less bugs. But still behind. 3rd gen Ryzen (zen2): it was the turning point, when everyone felt safe at switching to AMD. Honestly I felt more amazed with the zen 2 launch than with Ryzen launch! 5th gen Ryzen (zen 3): all around improvement, finally getting the gaming crown, but also with AMD trying to upsell its processors. 5th gen Ryzen told us that AMD would happily become Intel 2.0 if left without competition. Waiting anxiously to see what 7th gen Ryzen/Zen 4 brings us
Bought my 3600 on launch day back in 2019 and I still use to this date. Just upgraded my GPU to the RX 6700 10GB and it performs spectacularly. I'll probably upgrade later this year to Zen 4.
Curious. I am considering an RX 6700 10GB. I have a system with a R7 1700, ASRock AB350 Pro 4 mobo, and 4x8GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 CL15 ram. I also have a R9 3900X which I've had for quite some time but not installed since I want to use the Wraith Prism cooler but I'm missing the screws to secure the plastic brackets to the back plate. Wondering what you have in your system as far as mobo and ram. Edit: Also wondering about your monitor. I'm using a 43 inch 4K TV with 60 Hz refresh rate. What resolution do you run and what kind of frame rates do you target at that res?
Yeah, at the height of the pandemic, all I could get was a 3600x and a 5500xt 8GB. I eventually upgraded to the 5800x and a 6700XT, but when nothing else was available, the 3600 was a great find.
we are on the same rig except mine is a 6700xt 12GB. The only game that makes it show its age is the new Spider Man at 1440p highest settings. Still performs better than i thought it would this far along though.
I'm also happy with my Ryzen 5 3600, which I purchased early last year, second-hand. AMD really put great value in this CPU. Its impressive how well it holds its own still, three years after its release. Though like you say, I'm considering an upgrade from the stock cooler.
I got my 3600 about 3 month's after it launched, have used it overclocked to its max for the past 3ish years with a cooler master Hyper 212 BE. Still runs as strong as the day I got it, thermals never get above 88 degrees C even after hours of running it under nearly full load. These little 6 core beasts don't really need much cooling :)
I've been very happy with my 3600! I bought it in early 2021 when the 5000 series CPUs were hard to find and/or overpriced. Pairing the 3600 with a good B550 chipset board still gives me an upgrade path to something like 5800x or faster CPU if I need more power later on. So long as I can get a solid 75 FPS out of all my games I'm happy!
Just a 5800X, or a 5800X3D(fastest single core performance for gaming on that socket)? Faster(multi thread, anyway) would probably have to be either a 5900X or a 5950X.
3600 is awesome, wanting to upgrade at some point soon but the price to performance is awesome. I recently upgraded to a be Quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black to get rid of the stock cooler which did me justice for the past couple of years. I have it paired with a 3060 and it is a great combo
@@davidjones5059 by then it should be upgraded but for now I’m not going to upgrade for at least a year or two still served me just fine at the moment no need to upgrade yet
@@theloa7154 Even modern AAA games at 1080 max, and even some at 1440 max are still buttery smooth. Ive had mine since launch, have it overclocked and running at full load multiple hours every day gaming and even some video editing/rendering. Still a fantastic little 6 core beast. You might wanna swap the stock cooler if your gonna OC it tho, it doesn't need anything crazy like an AIO water cooler. I've had mine paired with a 30$ Hyper 212 BE, even after hours of running at full load it never slows down or gets above 86 C.
I got my i5 6400 back in 2016. Finally upgraded in 2022 when my video editing needs were barely being met, and got a 12600k. Originally I was aiming to get a 3600, or 3600x, but my brother told me to wait for intels new 12th gen CPU's. Turns out I was better off getting a 12400 for what I'd need, but instead got a 12600k at the last minute. Glad to see someone still recommending the 3600 as it is still a very solid option for the price.
I think the Ryzen 3600 might be one of the greatest CPUs ever. I love mine, still powerful and effective enough to this day. If I were to upgrade it I'd go for a Ryzen 5700 but there's no need at the moment.
I actually made the same move myself, from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 7 5700X, and the only real reason I did that was so I could give my 3600 to my friend and upgrade him from his Core i7-860. For my uses I don’t notice a huge difference, in fact, I actually miss that 3600 a little lol, it was the first serious CPU I bought with that much power and performance, a major leap from my Athlon X4 860K.
I’m using a 3600XT and the exact same Palit 3070 you’ve got, and I have to say, I haven’t had a single issue with either, together _or_ separately. I run Linux, not Windows, and even with Proton overheads, this has been a great setup for Linux gaming at 1080p with over 100fps in most games I’ve played (some medium settings, some high, some ultra).
@@joeykeilholz925 I wanted the base 3600, but it was literally more expensive than the XT when I bought it. Pandemic pricing, y’know? I added the 3600 to my cart on the site, and between doing that and going to checkout, the price had jumped by $120. Not even joking. The 3600XT became cheaper, so I grabbed it fast.
This has been my go to CPU for PC's on a moderate budget, my father, daughter and wife all have one in systems I built and are very happy! My main rig is only a step up with a 3700X and that is also still kicking ass :)
I got my a320 MB brand new for £29 6 years ago, absolute bargain! Upgraded from a 2600 to a 3600, and am very happy with the 1080p performance paired with a freesync monitor. My most recent upgrade from an RX580 to an RX6600 seems to be the sweat spot for this CPU.
Hell, the 2600 is still reasonable. I had one of those already and put it in my girlfriend's new PC, along with a RTX 2060. Really good machine for what we paid.
I have a 1600AF and i still love it. I bought it in march 2020 just before lockdown kicked off. I still can’t believe I paid £87 brand new for a 6 core CPU from ccl. The value is just insane.
I miss mine, though I got a 5600 new for $150 so I went for it. 2 months later it worked out cause I found a 3060 Ti for a good price too and upgraded from an RX 580. It's a hell of a CPU for around $80 used (at least that's what I paid for it in late 2020) But I never even fully pushed it to its max, since it was typically always GPU bound at any resolution. Only time I saw it fully utilized was during stress tests and benchmarks lol. Could hold 4.1Ghz all-core @ 1.31v all day never breaking 65c w/ the Wraith Prism, wasn't too bad at all.
I ended up binge watching a lot of your past videos the other day and now I'm left salivating in anticipation of every new video you upload. Love your channel man
I used this CPU for a couple of my mid range builds pairing it with RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti GPUs. Works like a champ for 1080p gaming. Overall best bang for the buck option for mid range builds
@@DeterminedTorres you can easily game in 4k wit that 3060 my friend has one, thats a 4k 60 rig you got there, or a high refresh rate 1080p system, obviously depending on the game
The 3600 has held up amazingly well over time. I got mine at the start of 2020 and it is still going strong. Works well with a cheap tower aftermarket cooler.
It seems I'm addicted to building low cost, decent performing PCs. I have 5. I just upgraded a 3600xt that I bought for $200 almost 2 years ago to a 5600 I just got for $150. I couldn't agree with you more. Mine would almost hit 4750 with PBO and a -.1 undervolt. 5600 is a sweet, peppy, and cool chip, as is it's brother, 5600G.
its cpu's like this that allow us poor gamers like me to actually buy/build a decent gaming pc. while i only just got my first legit desktop gaming pc, this was the cpu it came with(i think because i havent checked it cause i have no thermal paste and the fan is a bit stuck and im not pulling on it harder) and so far, this cpu has done wonderfully.
If you could make a video on the 2200g, this little CPU cost me 80€ used in 2020 and got abused in different game, still going strong ! It really saved me with all the GPU market shambles, and it still manage to impress me in recent titles (just finished Elden Ring on it)
Pretty sure he did a video on the 2200G last year. These older APUs are surprisingly good, I have a Deskmini A300 with a 3400G and it plays relatively modern games perfectly well if you are sensible with the graphics optics.
I just got a 3600 about a week ago for $60 dollars and it is great for what I payed for. I haven’t had any problems with it and it was a noticeable performance boost over my 1600
Still rocking a 3600 since 2019. A great performance to value ratio. I did change to a noctua cooler and OC'd it. Another year or two and I'll upgrade it.
I've still got my 3600 and I'm still happy with it. I got a good deal on it along with some other components out of a prebuilt, had it paired with a 1650 for a while and now an RX 6800 that I bought from a friend when they upgraded. Probably not the most sensible pairing but it works well for me, so far anyway.
@Lurch7861 If I was someone who gamed regularly, ie more than a 3 to 5 hours a week, usually on the lower end of that, and if I was interested in newer or competitive games then I could certainly see that being a consideration. But as someone who tends to play things like Skyrim SE, Fallout 4, 3, NV etc even the 1650 was more than adequate for what I used it for. So if my friend hadn't unexpectedly offered the 6800 at less than half of msrp, then I'd still be using them 1650 which admittedly would probably be a more sensible pairing.
@Lurch7861 Bottlenecking the 1650?? I've seen people pair it with 2060, 2070 or even 3050 and most of the people still say they ran into gpu bound more often than cpu bound...
Your channel helped me find the parts to build my first gaming desktop back in 2017. It's still helpful as always. And now today I'm seriously considering upgrading to a Ryzen 5 3600.
I have a secondary couch gaming PC that I use a 3600 in. What really made a big difference was overclocking and undervolting. It stays really cool while also running really well. If you have a 3600 I recommend looking into undervolting/overclocking guides. It's a great CPU out of the box but can get a lot better!
As a 3 year Ryzen 3600 owner myself, I gota admit, you're right on everything here. The 3600 has been a rock-solid performer and is still super snappy even today. I'm a intensive web browser user and competitive gamer myself (just bought the G Pro X Superlight for reference), and i still find the 3600 to be perfectly fine for me, and isn't slowing me down. Paired with a RTX 2060 Super and 3600Mhz of 32GB RAM, its been a great processor for just about everything i throw at it. Even if you wanted to stream to Twitch on the CPU, you can do that with pretty good quality, as long as the game isn't too CPU intensive.
I mean it's one generation old... Is this such a shock? I mean that's like saying "OMG an 11700k i7 is still good!" ... Really... You don't fucking say. Tell me, is a 2080 still a good GPU? SMH. Note: you can stream with a fucking 6700k which has less cores ffs. Im sure people that watch this channel have learning difficulties.
I can agree. I had the 3600xt and another streamer friend of mine is still rocking their 3600 2 years later with no issues still. The 3600xt went to my little brother's pc along with my 2060super and both are still slapping tasks with ease. Easily one of the best cpus to launch. ps. Don't worry about what mr. triggered (RazorOw) says. 'Misery likes company' as the saying goes.
Got one in December 2019, still got it running cool with a Scythe FUMA 2 and with "Gaming overclock" enabled from the MOBO. It gets the job done and never slows me down. I might wait the next generation of AMD CPUs after the one coming out in autumn.
i ugraded last month from a 3600 to a 5600. using my rtx 3060ti, there was no change in average fps. the weird change was my .1% low with the 5600 went down, but also the .1% HIGH went up. overall i shouldnt have bothered upgrading, the 3600 is far from any kind of bottleneck, still a very modern cpu
@@takehirolol5962 I mean, it seems like in the games he's playing (and I guess at 1440p) the upgrade doesn't seem like much, but from 3600 -> 5600 the performance gap itself is not so small
@@andrexskin With a 3060 Ti at 1440p...almost no difference as you said. At 1080p, there will be a small difference. I have a 2600, I would buy a 5700x at the very least or go big with the 5800x 3D...
@@takehirolol5962 Yeah you could do that, the 5700x seems like a great option, low power and not so expensive while being 8/16 and I think it will surely suits your needs. The 5800x3D is very strong as well, it's just that I'm not sure if it will be cost efficient but it fully depends on how much you want to spend and what's your build in general
I was fully expecting to only be going Ryzen by the time AM5 was around, and common enough for deals to be viable. Then, I came across an MSI b550 motherboard and a Ryzen 5600g. Not using the integrated graphics at the moment, but rather modestly impressed with its performance.
I bought a 5500 which is a 5600G with the IGP burnt off. I used it to freshen up my my B450 R7 1700 build and I'm suitably impressed and happy with the £111 inc VAT I paid for it. Best part is as AM4 parts get cheap on the used market I still have a tonne of upgrades and performance coming before I jump to either AM5 or Intel's offering in the future.
@@catslord3525 first of all, both were secondhand. Board was $150 and the CPU was $125. As I don't yet have anything newer than a 1060 to install on it, I don't think that's going to matter yet. As is, should be a decent platform upgrade for the wife, who is still using my former x99 main.
5600G on B450 here. I needed video signal while waiting for a replacement GPU (6700 XT now) and since the motherboard is not PCI 4.0, I didn't mind that CPU being "only" PCI 3.0. If I migrate the GPU to a new system, the AM5-platform should first come down in price.
Hi! Huge fan of your channel from Brazil here. I was wondering if you could do a video about xbox cloud gaming, it is really popular in my coutry right now and i consider it a great alternative for lower end builds. Tested the service here and it worked really well, good image quality and not big imput delay. Thanks for the video!
@@farmingthetnt8081 no, but my dad ended up needing my old system. The 3600 was part of my first personal build, and I knew I wanted to be on AM4 for the upgrade path. I got the 3600 for US$175, which at the time was a decent price.
Bought one of these when I built my current system back in August 2019. Set it up on a B450 AORUS ELITE mb, Gigabyte RTX2070 Super Gaming OC, 16 gig ram, 250 gig m.2 nvme, and 1tb hdd. Good stable system that's great for gaming. I've since installed another m.2 nvme 1tb, upgraded to 32 gig ram, and an AORUS ELITE B550 AX WIFI mb. The mb upgrade is in prep for a 5000 series cpu in the future and I needed the inbuilt WIFI, so thought I'd upgrade to a newer mb, and got this mb on special. I'll be passing the 3600 & B450 down to my daughter to upgrade her Intel i7 6700k system, so it'll still be in the family getting some love. Enjoying the content, keep it coming.
oh this video timing is just perfect. i've been using 3600 since 2019 paired it with my GTX 1060 i bought at 2016. after 6 years i decided to upgrade to rx 6600xt. the gpu still on its way but your video gave me clear idea what my 3600 still capable of
I bought my 3600 in late 2019/ early 2020, paired with a 3070 it’s still going strong ! especially since I upgraded to a 1440p display to eleviate the bottleneck
I recently built a low-cost system for my brother, who's never had a gaming PC before. I put in a Ryzen 5 3500X that I had left-over from an upgrade on my in-home server. It's basically a R5 3600, but without SMT. It's a very reasonable setup, and between parts I got second hand, parts I had on-hand already, and just a few new parts, I put the ~$650 system together for about $200.
I've currently got one paired with an RX 6700XT and it works very well, other than a slight CPU bottleneck which isn't too much of an issue in my experience
an i3 10100F is half the price of a 3600, newer and performs better. should have stayed with intel.
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@@mentalasylumescapee6389 the motherboards are super expensive for it, and had little selection here. Meanwhile B550 boards were discounted heavily. Also amd has better upgrade options right now, and they might even have new cpus on the AM4 platform.
@ Exactly. I saw this guy saying the same thing under another comment too, it's blatant misinformation. Can't fathom how he thinks a 10100f is faster when it's slower in every possible way, but here we are.
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@@yasu_red I mean for gaming it's faster I think in new games. But I don't only use my pc for gaming, and when I game I'm okay with 60fps, and the 3600 delivers it easily. Also for me the insane motherboard prices were a big part of my final purchase.
In this exact situation right now. I bought a 3600 a year ago and now I'm finally upgrading from my 1080 to a Rx 6800 xt which is in transit at the time of this comment. I was thinking on whether or not I should get one of the newer, maybe more powerful Ryzen CPUs now but I think I'll hold off still. Hoping to play Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Squad, Yakuza and such at 1440p with a stable 100 FPS or so (ideally more obviously). Thanks for the video, it really came in clutch for me tonight!
The R5 3600 has been the heart of my main system since the year of its release, I had upgraded from a i7 7700. I can see my self upgrading anytime soon I currently pair my 3600 with a 2060 Super 8gb and 32gb of Crucial Ballistics @3200mhz
I'm still using a 2700x from the 2019 black friday sale at $110. Debating on picking up a 5700G for my last upgrade on AM4 without upgrading from my B450 board. Not going too upgrade to next gen for a while I can wait a few more gens.
I went from a 2600X to a 3600XT, and the difference is actually insane. I highly recommend picking up a 3600 or 3600X if you can snag one for under 100 USD. Any AM4 stock cooler will handle them as well if you don’t start off overclocking!
Throughout 2020 when everyone and their mom was building a pc, I was recommending them join me with this magnificant CPU. What a joy to know that it was a good recommendation.
Still using mine since September 2019. Pretty much the best performance to price ratio on a budget and it absolutely breeze through light video editing and 3D modelling.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Ryzen 5 3600 will have staying power like the i5 2400 had. This will be a viable chip for another five years.
I bought the Ryzen 5 3600 in the fall of 2019 and I upgraded to the Ryzen 7 3700X about six months later still loving the 3700X about 2 years later, both are great CPU's
@@Geardos1 I mostly use my computer for converting full HD to 4K videos and that I did noticed a difference but for the few games I do play from time to time I didn't noticed any real difference. The only time I noticed a real difference in games was when I upgraded from the RX 5600 XT to the RX 6750 XT.
Using this with a 3060ti. I think I'm going to wait for new AMD CPUs before upgrading. Emulation is more my goal these days (as well as decent gaming at 1440p/4k), so a 5000 series CPU kinda doesn't seem worth the upgrade.
I totally agree with you mate, going from Zen2 to Zen 3 would only be a major upgrade if you need more cores or buy a cash heavy 3D Cache 8 core. I just swapped out my R7 1700 for a R5 5500 which is definitely an upgrade for gaming but if I was on Zen 2 I'd probably stay there until Zen 3 parts were going for peanuts on the used market, if I moved before platforming swapping that is.
@@rameshravikumar9515 Yeah. New socket. Not sure if they're all shipping with DDR 5 right away. The only way I'd avoid the cost would be to get a R9 5000 series...which is complete overkill considering the most media based work I do is use a pen tablet display and draw digitally. Complete overkill for literally no reason, haha
I built my computer in Oct. 2019 w/r5-3600 and rx5700, use it every day (carry it to work for daily use, then back home for gaming/fun), in-fact, I'm typing this on the rig...still feels like my "new" computer aside from the duct-tape handle and scrapes/dings. I'm not a power user, but I'm very happy with the performance for what I paid.
The 3600 should remain a decent option for another year or two, especially if you overclock it so that it remains at its highest boost clock of 4.2GHz at all times. I haven't tried it with the 3600, as I sold mine a while ago, but the Wraith Stealth can handle up to 100W of power if you don't mind it being a bit noisy, so it's a no brainer in my opinion to give it a static overclock and enjoy using it for a bit longer.
Great summary of this amazing chip. I scored a 3600xt way under the 3600rrp when the Ryzen 5000 launched in 2020. It rocks 4615 MHZ with PBO at 65 watts, easily running my 1440p triples with a 3080.
Yay! Good old 3600. I bought a clone, 4 pipe, dual fan cooler for it and have never heard those fans. CPU temps are down low. Good old 3600. Thanks for the fun review.!
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I remember getting my ryzen 1600 as an upgrade for my old i5 4460. The single core performance didnt change much, the gaming performance didnt change much but my god the system usability went to such an incredibly smooth degree that I will never use less than a 6 core CPU ever again
I built my daughter a 3600x system a couple years ago and that rig is by far one of my best built systems reliability wise. It has not had a single problem in nearly 3 years with an insane amount of daily use. Paired with a 5600xt it is a great price to performance machine that can handle pretty much anything she tosses at it in 1080p. Very happy with it and have since built and sold many with the 3600 at the helm.
This CPU is the first one I've bought for building my first PC in January 2020, I'm still using it with my 1660 Ti, and it still works great. Considering changing the GPU to a 3070 but keeping the 3600.
Recently helped a friend upgrade his processor and GPU, he uses his system for mostly editing and music production so in 2022 the only thing that could finally warrant a change from his 3600XT was FL Studios many many updates. After setting him up with a 5800x, and 32 more GB of RAM, I was given the 3600XT, and I’m absolutely astonished just how well these things hold up in 2022. I’m holding on to this chip for a long time, I feel it will make a perfect candidate for a secondary PC in a while.
its amazing how you can go from this already good 6 core cpu all the way up to a ryzen 9 with like 12 cores on the same platform. What a nice upgrade path
I got a 3600 on the cheap a few years ago. It was literally supposed to be a stop gap solution. Well here we are today and Its still in my system going strong.
I appreciate not clickbaiting the title with something like "Is Ryzen 3600 any good in 2022?". I've paired 3600 with RTX 2060 and I'm quite happy with the performance for 1440p@60fps gaming at the moment. I have enormous backlog of games to catch up so I don't expect the setup to disappoint me in the nearest future.
@@Martin2112 yeah if you're gaming at 1440p or 4k on highish settings you probably have at least a few more years before it's the CPU that's causing issues
Built my PC in 2018 with R5 1600 and 1070. Recently gave the 1070 to my brother as it was an overkill for me and thought about getting a 580 (currently using R7 250 lmao). You definitely got a killer build there.
thanks for making this post friend. I am driving my 3600x for many happy years now with a 1080ti. Waiting for the 5800x or 5950x to drop in prices when AM5 get launched. what I love most about this CPU is that it runs everything without issues and I always have the option of upgrading to the next generation when I feel like it's worth it. Not really possible with Intel without new Motherboard. 3600 is a price to performance Superstar, proof me wrong.
I used a 3600 for a plex server for about a year, and had it in a secondary pc for a while also. I ended up using in my parents new pc, and they love it. It's still a great cpu that can handle the common day task, casual gaming at 1080p and light editting.
Ryzen 5's are great cpu's . i upgraded from an I5 357OK to a Ryzen 5 2600X ive paired it with a RX470 8GB and 32 gb of Ram Running at 2666 mhz and it runs everything i want to run with ease great video RGIHD love to see videos about the ryzen 5's : )
I bought my 3600 at the start of july 2020 (1 year after launch) and still 2 years later rocks. I've been lucky as my chip is a golden sample, and I'm currently running it at 4.25 GHz @1.137V with no problem. I think that it can hold pretty good for 2 more years easily.
I love both my 3600 and 3600x, put a decent cooler on them and lock them at their max turbo frequency and it helps general performance a fair bit. Paired with a 3060 I dont see myself upgrading for a couple more years. Thank you for shining some light on these solid chips!
Bought one at $199 MSRP back in July 2019, still have it running in one of the kid's computers, it's still paired with an RX 5700 that I bought that same year.
got my 3600 in early 2020 paired with a gtx 1660 super. now I've upgraded to an rtx 3060. It still holds up very well to this day. I'm very happy with its performance. i may keep it around for another year or two.
Rebuilt my 10+ year old AMD Phenom II X3 720BE (I was able to unlock the 4th core so I ran it with 4 cores instead of 3) about 2 years ago when it finally kicked the bucket. Replaced it with a Ryzen 5 3600 back in 2020 for $160 from Microcenter. Still running it today and loving it! Games run great, as well as other non-game apps. My GPU is a lowly GTX 1660 OC but I'm not complaining. Like I said, games run great.
I started with a 1600 when they came out, got a 2600 (sent it back as it was no upgrade compared to OC'd 1600 for me - it overheated maybe a dud) I got my Rx 3500x years ago and it is just a hair behind the 3600 in speed (6 threads instead of 12) and its been great. Paid $135 new, delivered from china when the 3600 was pushing close to $300, so good value. Made a gaming rig for a friend and couldn't help but go for the i5 11400F (6 core) for $175 as a total speed demon and he is thrilled.
I was given one of these all-but on launch day as a birthday present by an extremely generous friend. Still proudly using it today. Pushing a GTX 1080, under a cheap 240 AIO, with 16GB 3600 RAM, an Asus X470 Prime Pro, a 240 NVMe SSD for boot, and a 1T SATA one for my games. Does absolutely everything I ask it to do, and because I don't buy new games much, will continue to do everything I ask it to for years to come. .... it's already three years old? Doesn't feel like it! Then again this was my first true current gen processor since I built a Core 2 Duo.... Was rockin' a hand-me-down FX4100 when the C2D got a little too old to play the games I wanted. The FX with 8GB RAM and a GTX 470, which was upgraded to an R9 290X (boom) ... uh, I mean, GTX 970 (dead) .... darnit! RX 570 4GB (whew) were still "enough" when I retired them. Just now I have room to grow and stay relevant for even longer before it's time to finally upgrade again. Hopefully a meaningful used or New/Old Stock GPU market exists again by then, and I've got tons of options to grow into without even needing a new motherboard. Though since I don't buy new AAA blockbuster games much if at all, and there's a sprawling market for older or indie titles that this rig is more than capable of running, I don't see myself upgrading again for a *very* long time. Probably when my hand is forced by a hardware failure. My finger is on the pulse of that 1T SSD (sometimes hangs while updating games) and the AIO (it's cheap) as being the next causes of longevity concern.
i had a Ryzen 5 1600 back then and i had a issue where every game had micro stuttering...But after switching to the 3600 the performance increase was immense, and i still use it with my B350 board
Was looking to upgrade to the 3600 from my 1600af I always new it was going to be a solid chip. Picked up a 5600x instead, got lucky with timing. Great to see the 3600 standing the rest of time!
Zen2 really was the moment when Ryzen sorted the quirks and just became a brilliant line of CPUs. My 1600 was okay, my 3700X is just immense. Nice to see the 6 cores are still doing as good as the day they came out
For me:
1st gen Ryzen: as with every new endeavor, it was a bit buggy, not much close to Intel at gaming, but everyone knew it would be better in the future (at least when comparing i5 vs R5)
2nd gen Ryzen (zen+): was when Ryzen was starting the mindset, with even better prices, a bit more performance and MUCH less bugs. But still behind.
3rd gen Ryzen (zen2): it was the turning point, when everyone felt safe at switching to AMD. Honestly I felt more amazed with the zen 2 launch than with Ryzen launch!
5th gen Ryzen (zen 3): all around improvement, finally getting the gaming crown, but also with AMD trying to upsell its processors. 5th gen Ryzen told us that AMD would happily become Intel 2.0 if left without competition.
Waiting anxiously to see what 7th gen Ryzen/Zen 4 brings us
@@AjrAlves and I wonder what the future options will offer to me when I graduate and move to new state
That what I have 3700X paired with a RTX 3070 runs everything on high settings at 1440p.
I hate my 3700x tho
Sold it with 3060ti for $1000
Hopefully 12100-13400 won't disappoint 😂
I still have my Ryzen 5 1600 paired with a GTX 1660 Super. Getting around 75-100 FPS in Warzone, and decent render times in DaVinci Resolve.
Bought my 3600 on launch day back in 2019 and I still use to this date. Just upgraded my GPU to the RX 6700 10GB and it performs spectacularly. I'll probably upgrade later this year to Zen 4.
Curious. I am considering an RX 6700 10GB. I have a system with a R7 1700, ASRock AB350 Pro 4 mobo, and 4x8GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 CL15 ram. I also have a R9 3900X which I've had for quite some time but not installed since I want to use the Wraith Prism cooler but I'm missing the screws to secure the plastic brackets to the back plate. Wondering what you have in your system as far as mobo and ram.
Edit: Also wondering about your monitor. I'm using a 43 inch 4K TV with 60 Hz refresh rate. What resolution do you run and what kind of frame rates do you target at that res?
Oi oi nice bro 👌
Yeah, at the height of the pandemic, all I could get was a 3600x and a 5500xt 8GB.
I eventually upgraded to the 5800x and a 6700XT, but when nothing else was available, the 3600 was a great find.
we are on the same rig except mine is a 6700xt 12GB. The only game that makes it show its age is the new Spider Man at 1440p highest settings. Still performs better than i thought it would this far along though.
@@jtenorj I have a Tomahawk Max B450 and waiting on a 1440p 165hz which should arrive this week. Currently playing on 1080p
Oh yeaaa, my first CPU, and still going strong. Was a good buy.
I'm also happy with my Ryzen 5 3600, which I purchased early last year, second-hand.
AMD really put great value in this CPU. Its impressive how well it holds its own still, three years after its release. Though like you say, I'm considering an upgrade from the stock cooler.
Yep, get some 30 bucks cooler and enjoy even 200mhz cheers up on zen 2
I got my 3600 about 3 month's after it launched, have used it overclocked to its max for the past 3ish years with a cooler master Hyper 212 BE. Still runs as strong as the day I got it, thermals never get above 88 degrees C even after hours of running it under nearly full load. These little 6 core beasts don't really need much cooling :)
I've been very happy with my 3600! I bought it in early 2021 when the 5000 series CPUs were hard to find and/or overpriced. Pairing the 3600 with a good B550 chipset board still gives me an upgrade path to something like 5800x or faster CPU if I need more power later on.
So long as I can get a solid 75 FPS out of all my games I'm happy!
Just a 5800X, or a 5800X3D(fastest single core performance for gaming on that socket)? Faster(multi thread, anyway) would probably have to be either a 5900X or a 5950X.
You can still use 5700X and 5800X with a good B450 too. I own a 3600 and I'll probably get a cheap 5700X in the future.
what; you have a 75Hz monitor? Me too... though I'm okay with 37.5fps ;) in single player games
@@GGBGameplayssell your 3600 + additional money for the 5700x.
As others recommend, 5800x3d would be your best bet for gaming upgrade. But you should probably hurry, people are snapping them up pretty quick.
3600 is awesome, wanting to upgrade at some point soon but the price to performance is awesome. I recently upgraded to a be Quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black to get rid of the stock cooler which did me justice for the past couple of years. I have it paired with a 3060 and it is a great combo
will it still work in 2025?
@@davidjones5059 id say by 2025 you should upgrade, because you could find better CPU's
@@davidjones5059 by then it should be upgraded but for now I’m not going to upgrade for at least a year or two still served me just fine at the moment no need to upgrade yet
Performs well today? Games and production? I'm eying this up it seems good to me value wise
@@theloa7154 Even modern AAA games at 1080 max, and even some at 1440 max are still buttery smooth. Ive had mine since launch, have it overclocked and running at full load multiple hours every day gaming and even some video editing/rendering. Still a fantastic little 6 core beast.
You might wanna swap the stock cooler if your gonna OC it tho, it doesn't need anything crazy like an AIO water cooler. I've had mine paired with a 30$ Hyper 212 BE, even after hours of running at full load it never slows down or gets above 86 C.
I got my i5 6400 back in 2016. Finally upgraded in 2022 when my video editing needs were barely being met, and got a 12600k. Originally I was aiming to get a 3600, or 3600x, but my brother told me to wait for intels new 12th gen CPU's. Turns out I was better off getting a 12400 for what I'd need, but instead got a 12600k at the last minute. Glad to see someone still recommending the 3600 as it is still a very solid option for the price.
You made a good choice the 12600k is a decent CPU and it'll be good for the next 6+ years in gaming.
I think the Ryzen 3600 might be one of the greatest CPUs ever. I love mine, still powerful and effective enough to this day. If I were to upgrade it I'd go for a Ryzen 5700 but there's no need at the moment.
Absolutely. The price is unbeatable and the performance is fantastic
I'm in exactly the same boat
It's easily the best CPU of the last decade. It will still be good enough for years to come.
Definitely Hall of Fame
I actually made the same move myself, from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 7 5700X, and the only real reason I did that was so I could give my 3600 to my friend and upgrade him from his Core i7-860. For my uses I don’t notice a huge difference, in fact, I actually miss that 3600 a little lol, it was the first serious CPU I bought with that much power and performance, a major leap from my Athlon X4 860K.
I’m using a 3600XT and the exact same Palit 3070 you’ve got, and I have to say, I haven’t had a single issue with either, together _or_ separately. I run Linux, not Windows, and even with Proton overheads, this has been a great setup for Linux gaming at 1080p with over 100fps in most games I’ve played (some medium settings, some high, some ultra).
nice combo.
@@EVILOSERUN Thanks man, it serves me well.
The XT models were a waste of silicon!!!! Lol, but nah it's such a good cpu.
@@joeykeilholz925 I wanted the base 3600, but it was literally more expensive than the XT when I bought it. Pandemic pricing, y’know? I added the 3600 to my cart on the site, and between doing that and going to checkout, the price had jumped by $120. Not even joking. The 3600XT became cheaper, so I grabbed it fast.
Have you overclocked the 3600xt?
This has been my go to CPU for PC's on a moderate budget, my father, daughter and wife all have one in systems I built and are very happy! My main rig is only a step up with a 3700X and that is also still kicking ass :)
That 6core 12threads really is a game changer. Currently running r5 2600 with 6700xt on 1440p and it is glorious, no bottleneck at all.
Happy with the 2600 then? I’ve got one on the way as part of a budget build
I got my a320 MB brand new for £29 6 years ago, absolute bargain! Upgraded from a 2600 to a 3600, and am very happy with the 1080p performance paired with a freesync monitor. My most recent upgrade from an RX580 to an RX6600 seems to be the sweat spot for this CPU.
Hell, the 2600 is still reasonable. I had one of those already and put it in my girlfriend's new PC, along with a RTX 2060. Really good machine for what we paid.
I have a 1600AF and i still love it. I bought it in march 2020 just before lockdown kicked off. I still can’t believe I paid £87 brand new for a 6 core CPU from ccl. The value is just insane.
@@anubiasab Same here, paid 80$ for it. Paired with a GTX 1070 it's working great, though showing a bit of age in a game like Spider-man Remastered.
I miss mine, though I got a 5600 new for $150 so I went for it. 2 months later it worked out cause I found a 3060 Ti for a good price too and upgraded from an RX 580. It's a hell of a CPU for around $80 used (at least that's what I paid for it in late 2020) But I never even fully pushed it to its max, since it was typically always GPU bound at any resolution. Only time I saw it fully utilized was during stress tests and benchmarks lol. Could hold 4.1Ghz all-core @ 1.31v all day never breaking 65c w/ the Wraith Prism, wasn't too bad at all.
@@silversrayleigh1399 Why not overclock the processor and ram? What is your motherboard and ram?
Peguei uma rx 6600 com um Ryzen 2600x
I ended up binge watching a lot of your past videos the other day and now I'm left salivating in anticipation of every new video you upload. Love your channel man
Thanks mate :)
I used this CPU for a couple of my mid range builds pairing it with RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti GPUs. Works like a champ for 1080p gaming. Overall best bang for the buck option for mid range builds
Works just as good at 4k.
For for my 4K builds, I'm using Ryzen 7 5700X-5800X paired with RTX 3080 and RTX 3080s Ti.
@@wilsontanlk honestly thats for me overkil, fuck, i can play 4k with my 1060 at reasonable settings with a console experiance
I have a 3060 and a 3600 as I intend to use it for 1080p gaming and not for anything too intense. To this day, I use it very often as well!
@@DeterminedTorres you can easily game in 4k wit that 3060 my friend has one, thats a 4k 60 rig you got there, or a high refresh rate 1080p system, obviously depending on the game
The 3600 has held up amazingly well over time. I got mine at the start of 2020 and it is still going strong. Works well with a cheap tower aftermarket cooler.
It seems I'm addicted to building low cost, decent performing PCs. I have 5.
I just upgraded a 3600xt that I bought for $200 almost 2 years ago to a 5600 I just got for $150.
I couldn't agree with you more. Mine would almost hit 4750 with PBO and a
-.1 undervolt.
5600 is a sweet, peppy, and cool chip, as is it's brother, 5600G.
its cpu's like this that allow us poor gamers like me to actually buy/build a decent gaming pc. while i only just got my first legit desktop gaming pc, this was the cpu it came with(i think because i havent checked it cause i have no thermal paste and the fan is a bit stuck and im not pulling on it harder) and so far, this cpu has done wonderfully.
If you could make a video on the 2200g, this little CPU cost me 80€ used in 2020 and got abused in different game, still going strong ! It really saved me with all the GPU market shambles, and it still manage to impress me in recent titles (just finished Elden Ring on it)
Pretty sure he did a video on the 2200G last year. These older APUs are surprisingly good, I have a Deskmini A300 with a 3400G and it plays relatively modern games perfectly well if you are sensible with the graphics optics.
2200g served me well since 2018, planning on upgrading to a 5800x3d this year
Have it paired with a GTX 1080 Ti and its been a pretty formidable combo. Definitely more than enough for the games I play.
I just got a 3600 about a week ago for $60 dollars and it is great for what I payed for. I haven’t had any problems with it and it was a noticeable performance boost over my 1600
snagged this some time ago for $175 before prices went up
love the cpu and its paired with a 2080 super
Still rocking a 3600 since 2019. A great performance to value ratio. I did change to a noctua cooler and OC'd it. Another year or two and I'll upgrade it.
I've still got my 3600 and I'm still happy with it. I got a good deal on it along with some other components out of a prebuilt, had it paired with a 1650 for a while and now an RX 6800 that I bought from a friend when they upgraded. Probably not the most sensible pairing but it works well for me, so far anyway.
@Lurch7861 If I was someone who gamed regularly, ie more than a 3 to 5 hours a week, usually on the lower end of that, and if I was interested in newer or competitive games then I could certainly see that being a consideration. But as someone who tends to play things like Skyrim SE, Fallout 4, 3, NV etc even the 1650 was more than adequate for what I used it for. So if my friend hadn't unexpectedly offered the 6800 at less than half of msrp, then I'd still be using them 1650 which admittedly would probably be a more sensible pairing.
@Lurch7861 Bottlenecking the 1650?? I've seen people pair it with 2060, 2070 or even 3050 and most of the people still say they ran into gpu bound more often than cpu bound...
@@Summer-xu8qu
I believe he meant bottlenecking 3600 cpu paired with 6800 xt. He should still get the optimum from cpu if overcloacked to 4.1
Just upgraded from a 3100 to a 3600. Extremely satisfied with it!
an i3 10100F is half the price, newer and performs better.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 but they would need to buy a new motherboard
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 10100F new? Since when, 2020?
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 i just searched the two of them against one another and it seems that the 3600 pulls ahead in every real world test.
@@AntiFurry927 I mean like anything it actually depends on the price paid but okay buddy. Got ‘em.
Your channel helped me find the parts to build my first gaming desktop back in 2017. It's still helpful as always. And now today I'm seriously considering upgrading to a Ryzen 5 3600.
I have a secondary couch gaming PC that I use a 3600 in. What really made a big difference was overclocking and undervolting. It stays really cool while also running really well. If you have a 3600 I recommend looking into undervolting/overclocking guides. It's a great CPU out of the box but can get a lot better!
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As a 3 year Ryzen 3600 owner myself, I gota admit, you're right on everything here. The 3600 has been a rock-solid performer and is still super snappy even today. I'm a intensive web browser user and competitive gamer myself (just bought the G Pro X Superlight for reference), and i still find the 3600 to be perfectly fine for me, and isn't slowing me down.
Paired with a RTX 2060 Super and 3600Mhz of 32GB RAM, its been a great processor for just about everything i throw at it. Even if you wanted to stream to Twitch on the CPU, you can do that with pretty good quality, as long as the game isn't too CPU intensive.
I mean it's one generation old... Is this such a shock? I mean that's like saying "OMG an 11700k i7 is still good!" ... Really... You don't fucking say.
Tell me, is a 2080 still a good GPU?
SMH.
Note: you can stream with a fucking 6700k which has less cores ffs. Im sure people that watch this channel have learning difficulties.
I can agree. I had the 3600xt and another streamer friend of mine is still rocking their 3600 2 years later with no issues still. The 3600xt went to my little brother's pc along with my 2060super and both are still slapping tasks with ease. Easily one of the best cpus to launch.
ps. Don't worry about what mr. triggered (RazorOw) says. 'Misery likes company' as the saying goes.
@@razerow3391 considering it was a mid range cpu , u should ask is 2060 still good ? which is a legitimate question
I have one in a b550 and 3060 Ti rig, it’s a wonderful mid tier gaming setup
I got u bro, ive the same Setup(just the tuf Version of the GPU) awesome for 1440p Gaming.
Got one in December 2019, still got it running cool with a Scythe FUMA 2 and with "Gaming overclock" enabled from the MOBO. It gets the job done and never slows me down. I might wait the next generation of AMD CPUs after the one coming out in autumn.
i ugraded last month from a 3600 to a 5600. using my rtx 3060ti, there was no change in average fps. the weird change was my .1% low with the 5600 went down, but also the .1% HIGH went up. overall i shouldnt have bothered upgrading, the 3600 is far from any kind of bottleneck, still a very modern cpu
That's not an upgrade...
@@takehirolol5962 I mean, it seems like in the games he's playing (and I guess at 1440p) the upgrade doesn't seem like much, but from 3600 -> 5600 the performance gap itself is not so small
Thank you for this comment bro. I have a rtx 3050 and Ryzen 5 5500 new in south Africa and I was interested in this small upgrade
@@andrexskin With a 3060 Ti at 1440p...almost no difference as you said. At 1080p, there will be a small difference.
I have a 2600, I would buy a 5700x at the very least or go big with the 5800x 3D...
@@takehirolol5962 Yeah you could do that, the 5700x seems like a great option, low power and not so expensive while being 8/16 and I think it will surely suits your needs.
The 5800x3D is very strong as well, it's just that I'm not sure if it will be cost efficient but it fully depends on how much you want to spend and what's your build in general
Bought mine in February of 2020 and this is a champ. Really amazing. Proud of it.
I was fully expecting to only be going Ryzen by the time AM5 was around, and common enough for deals to be viable.
Then, I came across an MSI b550 motherboard and a Ryzen 5600g. Not using the integrated graphics at the moment, but rather modestly impressed with its performance.
I bought a 5500 which is a 5600G with the IGP burnt off. I used it to freshen up my my B450 R7 1700 build and I'm suitably impressed and happy with the £111 inc VAT I paid for it. Best part is as AM4 parts get cheap on the used market I still have a tonne of upgrades and performance coming before I jump to either AM5 or Intel's offering in the future.
5600G is PCI 3.0, is wasted money, for same price go for the 5600.
@@catslord3525 first of all, both were secondhand. Board was $150 and the CPU was $125. As I don't yet have anything newer than a 1060 to install on it, I don't think that's going to matter yet.
As is, should be a decent platform upgrade for the wife, who is still using my former x99 main.
5600G on B450 here. I needed video signal while waiting for a replacement GPU (6700 XT now) and since the motherboard is not PCI 4.0, I didn't mind that CPU being "only" PCI 3.0. If I migrate the GPU to a new system, the AM5-platform should first come down in price.
5500 is an awesome chip very underrated
Had a R5 3600 combined with a GTX970. Upgrade to a RTX3070 like 6 months ago and it works fantasic. Very happy with it!
Me too, hoping to upgrade to an RX 6800
Hi! Huge fan of your channel from Brazil here.
I was wondering if you could do a video about xbox cloud gaming, it is really popular in my coutry right now and i consider it a great alternative for lower end builds. Tested the service here and it worked really well, good image quality and not big imput delay.
Thanks for the video!
That would be nice
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just bought this processor this year. loving it so far!
I upgraded to a 3600 from my i5 8400 in late 2020. Such a great CPU.
That isnt that much of an upgrade is it?
@@farmingthetnt8081 no, but my dad ended up needing my old system. The 3600 was part of my first personal build, and I knew I wanted to be on AM4 for the upgrade path. I got the 3600 for US$175, which at the time was a decent price.
Bought one of these when I built my current system back in August 2019. Set it up on a B450 AORUS ELITE mb, Gigabyte RTX2070 Super Gaming OC, 16 gig ram, 250 gig m.2 nvme, and 1tb hdd. Good stable system that's great for gaming. I've since installed another m.2 nvme 1tb, upgraded to 32 gig ram, and an AORUS ELITE B550 AX WIFI mb.
The mb upgrade is in prep for a 5000 series cpu in the future and I needed the inbuilt WIFI, so thought I'd upgrade to a newer mb, and got this mb on special.
I'll be passing the 3600 & B450 down to my daughter to upgrade her Intel i7 6700k system, so it'll still be in the family getting some love.
Enjoying the content, keep it coming.
I got a 3600x. Still rocks !
How hot yours run?
@@mahogany7712 72/74. Fully loaded. 4.5 GHz . With this heat. In the winter allot less. Like 10 degrees less.
@@AlexCreemers wew so hitting 65 and above wasnt that bad huh, thank you Sir
@@mahogany7712 no. Max temp 95 degrees
Nearly 2 years later, and still rocking out on my Ryzen 3600. Huge step up from my i7-3770 (non k).
I was thinking of getting this chip a few years ago! Just around january 2020, actually!
My Ryzen 5 1600 still pulls some decent weight tho ;)
Same, as long as its kicking I see no need to upgrade
I bounced the 1600 for a 2600 and never looked back...
@@Gortok1 I'm probably just going to upgrade to a 3700x or 5000 series whenever I actually need an upgrade, since my motherboard supports it :P
oh this video timing is just perfect. i've been using 3600 since 2019 paired it with my GTX 1060 i bought at 2016. after 6 years i decided to upgrade to rx 6600xt. the gpu still on its way but your video gave me clear idea what my 3600 still capable of
I bought my 3600 in late 2019/ early 2020, paired with a 3070 it’s still going strong ! especially since I upgraded to a 1440p display to eleviate the bottleneck
Still rocking this beast in my rig and I am happy with it!
I recently built a low-cost system for my brother, who's never had a gaming PC before. I put in a Ryzen 5 3500X that I had left-over from an upgrade on my in-home server. It's basically a R5 3600, but without SMT. It's a very reasonable setup, and between parts I got second hand, parts I had on-hand already, and just a few new parts, I put the ~$650 system together for about $200.
Upgraded my ancient fx 6300 to this processor, it was like a whole new world.
I've currently got one paired with an RX 6700XT and it works very well, other than a slight CPU bottleneck which isn't too much of an issue in my experience
Whats your mobo brand and specs bro?
@@philcatanyag1288 MSI B450 mobo, Rx 6700xt, R5 3600, 16GB ram. I'm considering an R7 5700x
@@brandonchan4992 Are you planning to upgrade your mobo?
@@philcatanyag1288 I don't plan on it. It works perfectly fine with a minor OC to 4.2 GHz
@@brandonchan4992 thanks bro, planning to upgrade my gpu sooner. This info really helps.
Hate to love your vids because they make me want to build lower/mid range/second hand rigs for no reason. You're awesome.
Just upgraded from a 4790k to a 3600 and it's awesome!
It's such a big jump, and also consumes less power.
from a single threaded perspective its rather a sidegrade but from multicore perspective definetely!
an i3 10100F is half the price of a 3600, newer and performs better. should have stayed with intel.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 the motherboards are super expensive for it, and had little selection here. Meanwhile B550 boards were discounted heavily.
Also amd has better upgrade options right now, and they might even have new cpus on the AM4 platform.
@ Exactly. I saw this guy saying the same thing under another comment too, it's blatant misinformation. Can't fathom how he thinks a 10100f is faster when it's slower in every possible way, but here we are.
@@yasu_red I mean for gaming it's faster I think in new games.
But I don't only use my pc for gaming, and when I game I'm okay with 60fps, and the 3600 delivers it easily.
Also for me the insane motherboard prices were a big part of my final purchase.
In this exact situation right now. I bought a 3600 a year ago and now I'm finally upgrading from my 1080 to a Rx 6800 xt which is in transit at the time of this comment. I was thinking on whether or not I should get one of the newer, maybe more powerful Ryzen CPUs now but I think I'll hold off still. Hoping to play Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Squad, Yakuza and such at 1440p with a stable 100 FPS or so (ideally more obviously).
Thanks for the video, it really came in clutch for me tonight!
The R5 3600 has been the heart of my main system since the year of its release, I had upgraded from a i7 7700. I can see my self upgrading anytime soon
I currently pair my 3600 with a 2060 Super 8gb and 32gb of Crucial Ballistics @3200mhz
I was rolling out several 3600 based machines matched up with 3600 DDR4 during 2020/2021. Everyone was more than happy.
Sold my 2600x for £35 and bought a 3600 for £49! Easiest £14 upgrade
bought mine for 50 bucks
I'm still using a 2700x from the 2019 black friday sale at $110. Debating on picking up a 5700G for my last upgrade on AM4 without upgrading from my B450 board. Not going too upgrade to next gen for a while I can wait a few more gens.
I went from a 2600X to a 3600XT, and the difference is actually insane. I highly recommend picking up a 3600 or 3600X if you can snag one for under 100 USD. Any AM4 stock cooler will handle them as well if you don’t start off overclocking!
Throughout 2020 when everyone and their mom was building a pc, I was recommending them join me with this magnificant CPU. What a joy to know that it was a good recommendation.
Literally this.
Still using mine since September 2019. Pretty much the best performance to price ratio on a budget and it absolutely breeze through light video editing and 3D modelling.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Ryzen 5 3600 will have staying power like the i5 2400 had. This will be a viable chip for another five years.
Yes, because AMD started milking us with Zen2 like intel did after Sandy Bridge.
Absolutely. Prodigy amongst CPUs. Won't be changing my 3600X for another 2-3 years.
I bought the Ryzen 5 3600 in the fall of 2019 and I upgraded to the Ryzen 7 3700X about six months later still loving the 3700X about 2 years later, both are great CPU's
did you notice any jump in gaming performance?
@@Geardos1 probably not tbh.
@@Geardos1 I mostly use my computer for converting full HD to 4K videos and that I did noticed a difference but for the few games I do play from time to time I didn't noticed any real difference. The only time I noticed a real difference in games was when I upgraded from the RX 5600 XT to the RX 6750 XT.
Using this with a 3060ti. I think I'm going to wait for new AMD CPUs before upgrading. Emulation is more my goal these days (as well as decent gaming at 1440p/4k), so a 5000 series CPU kinda doesn't seem worth the upgrade.
I totally agree with you mate, going from Zen2 to Zen 3 would only be a major upgrade if you need more cores or buy a cash heavy 3D Cache 8 core. I just swapped out my R7 1700 for a R5 5500 which is definitely an upgrade for gaming but if I was on Zen 2 I'd probably stay there until Zen 3 parts were going for peanuts on the used market, if I moved before platforming swapping that is.
My 5700g does ps3 very well.
If you’re waiting for am5, you need a new motherboard and ddr5 ramkits right ?
@@rameshravikumar9515 Yeah. New socket. Not sure if they're all shipping with DDR 5 right away. The only way I'd avoid the cost would be to get a R9 5000 series...which is complete overkill considering the most media based work I do is use a pen tablet display and draw digitally. Complete overkill for literally no reason, haha
@@mrelba9176 then 5800x3d is perfect for you i guess. Anyways hope you're having fun with the 3060ti
I built my computer in Oct. 2019 w/r5-3600 and rx5700, use it every day (carry it to work for daily use, then back home for gaming/fun), in-fact, I'm typing this on the rig...still feels like my "new" computer aside from the duct-tape handle and scrapes/dings. I'm not a power user, but I'm very happy with the performance for what I paid.
The 3600 should remain a decent option for another year or two, especially if you overclock it so that it remains at its highest boost clock of 4.2GHz at all times. I haven't tried it with the 3600, as I sold mine a while ago, but the Wraith Stealth can handle up to 100W of power if you don't mind it being a bit noisy, so it's a no brainer in my opinion to give it a static overclock and enjoy using it for a bit longer.
Great summary of this amazing chip. I scored a 3600xt way under the 3600rrp when the Ryzen 5000 launched in 2020. It rocks 4615 MHZ with PBO at 65 watts, easily running my 1440p triples with a 3080.
is it 3rd gen?
yes
Yay! Good old 3600. I bought a clone, 4 pipe, dual fan cooler for it and have never heard those fans. CPU temps are down low. Good old 3600. Thanks for the fun review.!
First! I just love when I get that notification or pop up saying "You have a new subscriber!" Or "Somebody just liked your comment!" Makes my day better!!!!!!!!🍀🥴
I got a 3600xt, and it hasn't ever disappointed me. Absolutely solid CPU to pair with my 6700xt.
I just bought my first pc from a guy on marketplace with a 3600, happy to hear its still relevant :)
I remember getting my ryzen 1600 as an upgrade for my old i5 4460. The single core performance didnt change much, the gaming performance didnt change much but my god the system usability went to such an incredibly smooth degree that I will never use less than a 6 core CPU ever again
Thanks for the video bro! This is my current build!
I built my daughter a 3600x system a couple years ago and that rig is by far one of my best built systems reliability wise. It has not had a single problem in nearly 3 years with an insane amount of daily use. Paired with a 5600xt it is a great price to performance machine that can handle pretty much anything she tosses at it in 1080p. Very happy with it and have since built and sold many with the 3600 at the helm.
This CPU is the first one I've bought for building my first PC in January 2020, I'm still using it with my 1660 Ti, and it still works great. Considering changing the GPU to a 3070 but keeping the 3600.
I just pulled the trigger on a used 3070 from eBay. So worth the wait from March 2020
Recently helped a friend upgrade his processor and GPU, he uses his system for mostly editing and music production so in 2022 the only thing that could finally warrant a change from his 3600XT was FL Studios many many updates. After setting him up with a 5800x, and 32 more GB of RAM, I was given the 3600XT, and I’m absolutely astonished just how well these things hold up in 2022. I’m holding on to this chip for a long time, I feel it will make a perfect candidate for a secondary PC in a while.
its amazing how you can go from this already good 6 core cpu all the way up to a ryzen 9 with like 12 cores on the same platform. What a nice upgrade path
Bought my 3600 last August of '19, loved it ever since. Currently paired with a 5600 XT that I bought a month before the pandemic hit.
Mine 3600 is still in use and performing great! Value/power ratio is still insane.
I got a 3600 on the cheap a few years ago. It was literally supposed to be a stop gap solution. Well here we are today and Its still in my system going strong.
i was legit nervous since i saw that video coz i managed to build my pc from scratch with this cpu in 2020. it is an amazing cpu, never let me down :)
I appreciate not clickbaiting the title with something like "Is Ryzen 3600 any good in 2022?".
I've paired 3600 with RTX 2060 and I'm quite happy with the performance for 1440p@60fps gaming at the moment. I have enormous backlog of games to catch up so I don't expect the setup to disappoint me in the nearest future.
Had one since 2019. I see no end for it in sight, I'm still dramatically gpu bound with my 2070s
My wife has one paired with a 2080ti (got a good price on it so grabbed it for her) and tbh even that is working out pretty nicely!
@@Martin2112 yeah if you're gaming at 1440p or 4k on highish settings you probably have at least a few more years before it's the CPU that's causing issues
@@onometre yeah she has my old 1440p screen so that keeps it on the GPU for the most part.
Bought mine early 2020 and paired it with a 2060. The setup is still going strong and can still easily play all the latest games.
Still rocking my R5 1600 + 580 8GB combo I put together in 2018. Very happy with it.
Built my PC in 2018 with R5 1600 and 1070. Recently gave the 1070 to my brother as it was an overkill for me and thought about getting a 580 (currently using R7 250 lmao).
You definitely got a killer build there.
thanks for making this post friend. I am driving my 3600x for many happy years now with a 1080ti. Waiting for the 5800x or 5950x to drop in prices when AM5 get launched. what I love most about this CPU is that it runs everything without issues and I always have the option of upgrading to the next generation when I feel like it's worth it. Not really possible with Intel without new Motherboard.
3600 is a price to performance Superstar, proof me wrong.
I used a 3600 for a plex server for about a year, and had it in a secondary pc for a while also. I ended up using in my parents new pc, and they love it. It's still a great cpu that can handle the common day task, casual gaming at 1080p and light editting.
Thanks for the video. I am still using my R5 3600 @ 4.35Ghz, paired with an RX 6800XT. I have no complaints.
This is just one of those products that could never get wrong. The value you are getting is top notch.
Ryzen 5's are great cpu's . i upgraded from an I5 357OK to a Ryzen 5 2600X ive paired it with a RX470 8GB and 32 gb of Ram Running at 2666 mhz and it runs everything i want to run with ease great video RGIHD love to see videos about the ryzen 5's : )
I bought my 3600 at the start of july 2020 (1 year after launch) and still 2 years later rocks. I've been lucky as my chip is a golden sample, and I'm currently running it at 4.25 GHz @1.137V with no problem. I think that it can hold pretty good for 2 more years easily.
I love both my 3600 and 3600x, put a decent cooler on them and lock them at their max turbo frequency and it helps general performance a fair bit. Paired with a 3060 I dont see myself upgrading for a couple more years. Thank you for shining some light on these solid chips!
I sure hope it is, I’m still using this CPU in my current PC since 2020.
Since 2021 here. It only costed me £130
Bought one at $199 MSRP back in July 2019, still have it running in one of the kid's computers, it's still paired with an RX 5700 that I bought that same year.
Bought a i5 10400F last year to replace my Haswell CPU and the performance gains were insane. Also no longer get micro stuttering.
still rocking my 3600
got my 3600 in early 2020 paired with a gtx 1660 super. now I've upgraded to an rtx 3060. It still holds up very well to this day. I'm very happy with its performance. i may keep it around for another year or two.
Rebuilt my 10+ year old AMD Phenom II X3 720BE (I was able to unlock the 4th core so I ran it with 4 cores instead of 3) about 2 years ago when it finally kicked the bucket. Replaced it with a Ryzen 5 3600 back in 2020 for $160 from Microcenter. Still running it today and loving it! Games run great, as well as other non-game apps. My GPU is a lowly GTX 1660 OC but I'm not complaining. Like I said, games run great.
I started with a 1600 when they came out, got a 2600 (sent it back as it was no upgrade compared to OC'd 1600 for me - it overheated maybe a dud) I got my Rx 3500x years ago and it is just a hair behind the 3600 in speed (6 threads instead of 12) and its been great. Paid $135 new, delivered from china when the 3600 was pushing close to $300, so good value. Made a gaming rig for a friend and couldn't help but go for the i5 11400F (6 core) for $175 as a total speed demon and he is thrilled.
Been using a Ryzen 5 3600 for around 2 years now. It has everything I need for gaming, multitasking and even video processing.
I just upgraded from a 1600ae to a 5500 and its breathed some new life into my rig!
@@waflokazmierczyk924 na feels faster and the single core is quite a bit faster
I was given one of these all-but on launch day as a birthday present by an extremely generous friend.
Still proudly using it today.
Pushing a GTX 1080, under a cheap 240 AIO, with 16GB 3600 RAM, an Asus X470 Prime Pro, a 240 NVMe SSD for boot, and a 1T SATA one for my games.
Does absolutely everything I ask it to do, and because I don't buy new games much, will continue to do everything I ask it to for years to come.
.... it's already three years old? Doesn't feel like it!
Then again this was my first true current gen processor since I built a Core 2 Duo....
Was rockin' a hand-me-down FX4100 when the C2D got a little too old to play the games I wanted.
The FX with 8GB RAM and a GTX 470, which was upgraded to an R9 290X (boom) ... uh, I mean, GTX 970 (dead) .... darnit! RX 570 4GB (whew) were still "enough" when I retired them.
Just now I have room to grow and stay relevant for even longer before it's time to finally upgrade again.
Hopefully a meaningful used or New/Old Stock GPU market exists again by then, and I've got tons of options to grow into without even needing a new motherboard.
Though since I don't buy new AAA blockbuster games much if at all, and there's a sprawling market for older or indie titles that this rig is more than capable of running, I don't see myself upgrading again for a *very* long time.
Probably when my hand is forced by a hardware failure.
My finger is on the pulse of that 1T SSD (sometimes hangs while updating games) and the AIO (it's cheap) as being the next causes of longevity concern.
i had a Ryzen 5 1600 back then and i had a issue where every game had micro stuttering...But after switching to the 3600 the performance increase was immense, and i still use it with my B350 board
Was looking to upgrade to the 3600 from my 1600af I always new it was going to be a solid chip. Picked up a 5600x instead, got lucky with timing. Great to see the 3600 standing the rest of time!