Ryzen 5 1600

The sweet point of the Ryzen range and will play a good smooth game with optimised memory speed and timings. I used 3D Mark Vantage to setup and bench these values as it is a CPU heavy gaming benchmark. It's no Intel beater and comparable to an i5 Haswell K series when overclocking from a gaming perspective but it is fast for video editing and much cheaper than the equivalent Intel of same performance for this job. The 1600 is a genuine all rounder and the most average CPU money could buy at the end of 2017 for £180 odd notes. It is the Ford Focus 1.6 of CPU's, performs ok everywhere but won't blow your socks off anywhere. If you are building a gaming rig you could do worst but you could also do better for the same cash. A second hand i5 K series and board from Haswell through to Kaby Lake or even the much cheaper (if you get a deal) i3 7350K might be the better buy. Also the new Coffee Lake i3 8350K is a bit cheaper and would be far far superior for games and possibly not that far behind in any other areas. An entry level Z370 motherboard will cost more than an entry level B350 board for the AMD though. Your choice..

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