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The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 is still a great CPU for gaming.

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Back in 2019 AMD released one of their best and most successful CPUs, the AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Now nearly three years and two generations on, how well has this extremely popular CPU aged?

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  1. well considering i just run my ryzen 9 5950x with 8 cores oc 4.9ghz all core and paid 400 for it… i couldve just gotten this for 80. even the cache is the same (running 5950x with one ccd). and you probly can oc it to same numbers too 😀

  2. Should I upgrade my horrendous 3400g to a 3600 or 5600 or a 8 core 5700x

    My GPU is Rtx 2070 8Gb, I use a B450m

    I mainly want 1080p gaming with a 1080p 165hz monitor

  6. I thought about getting the 3600 at launch in 2019, but decided to spend the extra money on the x variant instead. It's getting a bit old but it still keeps chugging right along with no signs of needing replaced. Definitely getting my money's worth.

  7. After upgrading to AM5 socket, I put this in the old rig paired with a 4060 that I got on sale. It still runs games really well, and makes good secondary rig for family or lan parties.

  10. i ordered yesterday r5 3600 + rx 6600 eagle 8gb + 16gb ram ddr4 3600mhz and m2 1TB ssd so i hope i will have good expirience with that pc cuz i played until now on i5 4gen + rx 550 4gb and 16gb ram ddr3 so it wasnt so plesent expirience with battlefield games what i love so much haha

  12. I recently bought a 3060 Ti, for a Ryzen 5 3600, and I'm currently playing 4K on it. Don't laugh, in my games – DiRT 5, WRC: Generations and F1 23 and the like, it handles pretty well. Medium or medium-high settings with DLSS Quality and I have a stable 60 FPS. (In the future I plan to switch to 1440P with a higher refresh rate).

  16. Im still rocking a 3600 with some overclock (4.3GHz) and a RX 6800 for 1440p and VR gaming and it just works flawlessly.

    Gotta say it's a great CPU for anyone wanting anything really cheap to pair to a 3070 or similar. And it supports PCIe 4.0 unlike the 5500.

  18. I can guarantee this guy doesnt game on the 3600. I have a rx6800 build and the 1% lows are terrible that it makes newer games unplayable at lowest settings on 1080p. It is good, but definetly not 'great cpu for gaming'.

  25. I have a RX 6600 XT with 16GB RAM (2×8, 3200 MHz). I want to upgrade to a B550 motherboard and get a Gen4 M.2 NVMe. Is it worth to replace my R5 4600G with a R5 3600? Would it be better to replace it with a R5 5600? I'm using my PC for productivity mostly and casual gaming (single player, Rocket League sometimes). The difference in price between R5 3600 and R5 5600 (most expensive), according to what I found in Argentina nowadays, is more or less 50 dollars.

  27. Hi, I'm currently in need of a replacement for my faulty GPU, and I've decided to go for the RX 6700 XT 12GB. My current CPU is the Ryzen 5 3600, and unfortunately, I don't have the option to upgrade the processor at the moment. How well do you anticipate these components working together? Also, it's worth mentioning that I have a 1080p monitor. How significant is the bottleneck expected to be with the RX 6700 XT 12GB paired with the Ryzen 5 3600, and is this combination likely to be impractical for my usage?

  28. I think it's important to remember that if you bought the Ryzen 5 3600 standalone to upgrade without it being in a prebuilt pc, you might have neglected to buy good ram which has come insanely far in 3 years. Because every component interacts and we want a well oiled machine so to speak. Nowadays buying used DDR4 32GB 3600Mhz (16 or 18CL) costs like 50.. I bought CL16 which makes a HELL of a difference on 1% and 0.1% lows. I was stuck on 2400mhz and noticed 3600mhz made my games playable to the point where the 5800X3D became a luxury. I could have stayed on 2400mhz had I wanted to, because this chip is amazing if you have bad ram, as it picks up for the slack with the L3 cache.. But if I could look back I would have bought the ram years ago WITH the CPU because I realized you want them to run 1:1, 3600mhz RAM pairs extremely well with the R5 3600(x) and that would have given me headroom to switch to an AM5 platform in a year+

  30. In 2019 my MB fried and was low on cash, grabbed one of these expecting I'd be upgrading in 2 years because it was marginally better on paper than the 4790k I had originally from 2014. Well… 4 years later it's still chooching. I have it water cooled, never seems go above 60 degrees C. Was on 1080p gaming up until this month, upgraded to 4K. Honestly, it isn't bad. Paired to my RTX 3080, I still manage to get all my games to run a fairly solid 60 fps, did need to turn down a few games. The only 2 games that give me some trouble are BeamNG and American Truck Simulator. Both seem to relatively pin one core, and its not a constant low fps, but rather certain areas of the map I can see a hard drop into the 40's, but in others if unlocked will go upto 90. Still happy with it, hoping to get another few years out of it.

  31. It's good if you can get it for a good price, but if you can afford a 5600, you should probably just get a 5600, as it is still much faster in some games. It is sometimes around 50% faster, with better latency, and better 1% lows. Given that you would likely want to upgrade to the 5000 series on an AM4 motherboard anyway, I'd say that you might as well just get a 5000 series CPU now, if you can afford it. If you can find it for cheap enough, a 5700X might be good, as some games do actually run better with 8-cores, even on Zen 3, and more and more games are actually benefiting from having 8-cores these days.

    The consoles use 8-core Zen 2 CPUs, so that's a big reason why more and more games are actually leveraging 8-cores.

  32. Had a 1700x in my pc. Just picked up a 3600x for 50$ used over the weekend. Combined with a 3060 ti and it's doing great as far as performance and thermals go. I think i'll be good to play games for the next year and eventually I'll grab a 5600x and call it a day for the foreseeable future.

  34. Having a question here! Still using a Ryzen 5 3600 with a 3060 12gb.
    I often catch myself thinking to upgrade, but then I have to upgrade the motherboard and RAM too, and I don't feel like doing that yet.
    I still play the games on 1080p60 (That resolution and the 60fps are totally fine for me)

    For the most games I play the 3600 is still pretty good. It evens seems like that the 3600 will be good enough for newer Games I'm waiting for.
    So, my question is, is there a possibility to tell if the 3600 could still be a good cpu for 2024 too? I now, we're not there yet, but what could the chances be for it?
    I still want to wait and hope that prices for a new and more future-proof Motherboard, DDR5 RAM and CPU will drop a bit.