Were We Wrong About Ryzen's Best Feature All Along?

[Lew Zealand]

"""My current PC Ryzen 5 5500 and RX6600XT 16gb"""

Terrible hardware combination (CPU little L3 cache)

(Ryzen 5500 16MB L3 cache, PCIe 8x) = Ryzen 5600G no iGPU
RX6600XT PCIe 4.0 x8

Better HW combination
Ryzen 3600/5600 32MB L3 cache + RX6600XT PCIe 4.0, motherboard B550/X570 PCIe 4.0, AMD SAM enable (Re-Size BAR)

The 5500 and 3600 are the same speed in games as the 3600 is an older architecture and Zen 2 had asymmetric CPU memory bandwidth. Of course the 5600 is faster than both. The 5500 remains the best value AM4 processor at the low end and has been for years.

 

[Badelhas]

I have money to spend but I find no real reason to replace my B450 MSI Tomawak Max , my Ryzen 5800x3d and my 32gb ddr 3200mhz ram. It's still a great pc and I love AM4 longevity. Cudos to AMD.

 

[dalpilot]

Still use Asrock B450 MB, R1600, R3600, and R5700G. Memory from DDR4-3200 16 GB and an extra 16 GB as needed. Not a big gamer so AMD 570 4 GB to an Nvidia RTX 3050. Same case, same MB, who the heck uses WiFi on the MB for anything - even GB internet will be faster and more reliable for internet or network interconnects in home. Finally upgraded my NAS to 2.5 GBE and added 2.5 G PCIe card ($15). Used MOCA 3.0 to upgrade entire network to 2.5 GBe for speed upgrade when writing/reading video files from my ripped DVDs/BluRays/recorded video streams. The case and MB are still running at excellent efficiency and don't miss NVME 4 or 5.

 

[LordVile95]

AM4 was quite good, I built a 2600 PC that I upgraded to a 5800X3D. Only sold it as I swapped to ITX and went to a 7600X so I could hopefully do the same thing and hop onto a 10800X3D or whatever they call the last gen on AM5

The 5500 and 3600 are the same speed in games as the 3600 is an older architecture and Zen 2 had asymmetric CPU memory bandwidth. Of course the 5600 is faster than both. The 5500 remains the best value AM4 processor at the low end and has been for years.

Yeah I’ve recently built a media PC and used the 5500 as it was new with stick cooler for like £70. The 3600 was £60 used without a cooler. Ended up building the entire thing for like £250-300.

 

[RantyJobber]

As someone who has built 2 PCs in the last 2 years, after 20 years of not doing so, I'm grateful for Platform longevity. Especially as consumers are now being jibbed by the AI circular jerkular. Though admittedly that itself has impacted on the price of older hardware.

 

[LordVile95]

As someone who has built 2 PCs in the last 2 years, after 20 years of not doing so, I'm grateful for Platform longevity. Especially as consumers are now being jibbed by the AI circular jerkular. Though admittedly that itself has impacted on the price of older hardware.

The price of older hardware was already insane. Haswell didn’t become substantially cheaper until 8th gen came out. There wasn’t much difference in going Skylake vs Haswell back in the day