Wait for <$100 5600 or jump on 3600 and B450 mobo for $130?

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I've been waiting for the Ryzen 5 5600 to drop to less than $100us and I'll grab one, but this deal for the 3600 with a mobo for $130 is pretty insane and for another $40 I'd pick up 2x8GB DDR4 and have a nice upgrade for the daugher or wife. Just how much better is a 5600 over a 3600? My brain is really stuck on the 5600 for some reason and I want it online so I can avoid a day of driving to MicroCenter.

Thoughts? I've currently got a 1600@3.9GHz on a B450 with my trusty 8GB RX 580 which is also due for an upgrade, I'm just waiting about a month or so more on that for some optimal bargains.
 
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Damn, that seems so cheap that I might impulse buy it. However nearest MC is an hour away and that's in-store only, so that kills that.
 
I've been waiting for the Ryzen 5 5600 to drop to less than $100us and I'll grab one, but this deal for the 3600 with a mobo for $130 is pretty insane and for another $40 I'd pick up 2x8GB DDR4 and have a nice upgrade for the daugher or wife. Just how much better is a 5600 over a 3600? My brain is really stuck on the 5600 for some reason and I want it online so I can avoid a day of driving to MicroCenter.

Thoughts? I've currently got a 1600@3.9GHz on a B450 with my trusty 8GB RX 580 which is also due for an upgrade, I'm just waiting about a month or so more on that for some optimal bargains.

Question is, do you need the MB? And yes the 5600 is a fair step up from the 3600. It's close to being the same magnitude of upgrade as going from the 1600 to the 3600 (the 2600 was sort of a half generation bump).

Although now that I think about it, the 1600 is being hobbled by the additional software security levels imposed on it to protect against some of the hardware exploits that came out a few years back which the 3600 and 5600 don't need. So it's going to be a larger than normal bump just moving away from the 1600.

So currently on Amazon a Ryzen 3600 is 120 USD while a 5600 is 128 USD. Unless you really need that bundled MB, I'd definitely get the 5600.

Regards,
SB
 
I've been waiting for the Ryzen 5 5600 to drop to less than $100us and I'll grab one, but this deal for the 3600 with a mobo for $130 is pretty insane and for another $40 I'd pick up 2x8GB DDR4 and have a nice upgrade for the daugher or wife. Just how much better is a 5600 over a 3600? My brain is really stuck on the 5600 for some reason and I want it online so I can avoid a day of driving to MicroCenter.

Thoughts? I've currently got a 1600@3.9GHz on a B450 with my trusty 8GB RX 580 which is also due for an upgrade, I'm just waiting about a month or so more on that for some optimal bargains.

Why not the 3700 + mobo for $220

or the 5600 + mobo for $270


 
I would really, really like to not go to MicroCenter to get my stuff. This time of year it'll be a nightmare and I always end up spending a lot more than I planned when I go up and see all the open box deals. (It's how I got my 8GB 580 for $140 so many years ago)
 
btw does digi even cpu bottlenecked?
I was thinking about this and wondered, "What if I had an identical system to test this on? Same CPU/motherboard/memory and OC setting, but a better GPU? Say a 2060 super or something?", then remembered my son has that exact computer upstairs.
Talked to him about it, he's severely CPU limited in just about everything, so I think I'm sitting right on the edge of my performance.
 
I would really, really like to not go to MicroCenter to get my stuff. This time of year it'll be a nightmare and I always end up spending a lot more than I planned when I go up and see all the open box deals. (It's how I got my 8GB 580 for $140 so many years ago)
That is a shame, I was in and out in 10 minutes with my 7700x with 32gigs of free ddr 5 ram and my mobo that was $50 off cause I bought the cpu
 
could work for him. Also if he isn't in a hurry the future 4060 and 4060Ti are close to being released.
Also the common thought is that the 4080 is likely to get a price cut as its just sitting on shelves. So we may see the whole 40x0 (out side of the 4090) fit into lower price categories
 
I found this prebuilt that seems to be much, much better than anything else at its price (1000 USD). 12700F + 6700XT 12GB + the rest of a whole computer including Windows already assembled. It doesn’t allow changing of any parts and there’s definitely some things I’d like to change, but nothing else in this price range comes close to this in performance. Am I missing something obvious? Is the DDR4-3000 memory config going to be a big problem?
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