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

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.

Oh yeaaa, my first CPU, and still going strong. Was a good buy.

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.

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'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'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!

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

Just upgraded from a 3100 to a 3600. Extremely satisfied with it!

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 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

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).

That 6core 12threads really is a game changer. Currently running r5 2600 with 6700xt on 1440p and it is glorious, no bottleneck at all.

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.

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 :)

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.

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 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

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.

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.

snagged this some time ago for $175 before prices went up love the cpu and its paired with a 2080 super

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

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

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.

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)

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!

Hate to love your vids because they make me want to build lower/mid range/second hand rigs for no reason. You're awesome.

Had a R5 3600 combined with a GTX970. Upgrade to a RTX3070 like 6 months ago and it works fantasic. Very happy with 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.

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.!

I was rolling out several 3600 based machines matched up with 3600 DDR4 during 2020/2021. Everyone was more than happy.

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.

Sold my 2600x for £35 and bought a 3600 for £49! Easiest £14 upgrade

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.

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.

Still is my main cpu and is amazing for the price

I upgraded to a 3600 from my i5 8400 in late 2020. Such a great CPU.

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 just bought my first pc from a guy on marketplace with a 3600, happy to hear its still relevant :)

Just upgraded from a 4790k to a 3600 and it's awesome! It's such a big jump, and also consumes less power.

I got a 3600x. Still rocks !

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.

Got one for about $150 bucks in Jan 2020. Still stoked to have it!

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.

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.

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 ;)

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!

Upgraded my ancient fx 6300 to this processor, it was like a whole new world.

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.

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’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.

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 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 :)

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.

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

I got a 3600xt, and it hasn't ever disappointed me. Absolutely solid CPU to pair with my 6700xt.

I upgraded to a 3600 in 2021 after 10 years i5 2500k which was a well aged beast only finally getting outdone by high end VR titles and games like Cyberpunk. What a step up. Now I use my 2500k in my pinball machine.

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.

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.

Still rocking this beast in my rig and I am happy with it!

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.

is it 3rd gen?

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Thanks for the video. I am still using my R5 3600 @ 4.35Ghz, paired with an RX 6800XT. I have no complaints.

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.

Mine 3600 is still in use and performing great! Value/power ratio is still insane.

I still use the R5 3600, I just upgraded my GPU from a Rog Strix 1070ti to a Rog Strix RX 6700 XT. If I upgrade CPU it will be the R7 5700X. Great video!

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

Upgraded from a fx6300 to a Ryzen 5 3600,along with a 1050ti to a 1660ti,and so far my games are solid and enjoyable for me indeed😎i think the 3600 deserves a legendary honorable mention when talking about cpus

I'm doing a build for my 10 year old cousin, and i found a great deal on a 3600 and a b550 matx board, and i'm excited for him since the budget his mom gave me wouldnt have gotten him something so strong without the great deal. Also i'm giving him my old 980ti (ol faithful), since i was just Blw to upgrade to a 6700xt. The 3600 is a value to be reckoned with!

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.

Bought mine in February of 2020 and this is a champ. Really amazing. Proud of it.

3600 is my first/ current cpu and it’s still going strong with my 3060 probably going to keep it for a few years until ddr5 is mainstream

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.

I sure hope it is, I’m still using this CPU in my current PC since 2020.

This thing blew me away when I first got my hands on it. What a beast

I am currently still using a Ryzen 5 1600X as my daily driver with a Nvidia GTX 1070 and 16GB of RAM, I am very happy with the performance. In fact, I feel I would be happy just to upgrade my graphics card right now as the processor has yet to leave me wanting for more power on that front.

Bought a i5 10400F last year to replace my Haswell CPU and the performance gains were insane. Also no longer get micro stuttering.

My CPU :D ♥I buyd it in the extreme price crisis 1-2 Years ago used for like 120 Euros, It was only playd on for 3 Month then it was upgraded :D And it still rocks ! I will pair it next month with an RTX3070 and take my old 970 to rest.

Got mine in my pc mid 2021, rtx 3060, absolute banger system man smashes all the games I like

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

Got mine a little over 2 years ago and still nothing to complain. A very balanced CPU with my 1080 Ti.

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.

2200g user here, honestly for a casual gaming and browsing it still works! Planning to upgrade to 7600 soon

Currently using a 5600 upgraded from a 2200g and the performance is night and day. Plan to stay on AM4 for at least another few years

Still having it in my gaming pc, actually never had a problem in any game.

bought my 3600 last year. I´m still impressed. works with a 1660 Super. can play everything in 1080p / 60FPS. I don´t change a thing.

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.

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.

I bought a ryzen 5 3600 day one, never regretted it, still solid today

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.

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!

Still rocking my Ryzen 5 3600 with a B550 I bought in sept 2020, best cpu I ever got, wouldn't change unless I need it

I bought a used 3600 for about $100 to replace my old 1600 on a B350 motherboard. Totally worth it! I'm running it with a GTX 1660 SUPER and it holds a solid 144fps @ 1080p in Fortnite, CS:GO and other competitive games at medium settings. I generally lock it to 72fps (half of 144Hz) for AAA titles at medium to high settings. The 1600 was a significant bottleneck and was causing a lot of stuttering especially in high fps scenarios. The 3600 just fixed everything for me. I've slapped on a cheap $25 tower cooler on it and overclocked it to 4.0GHz. It barely touches 76C when on full load in Cinebench R23.

Bought my 3600 back in 2020 brand new for $160 usd. Best CPU I ever had (coming from a i7 6700). Had it paired with a 1060 3gb and recently upgraded to a rx 6600xt. Don't see myself upgrading CPU for a few more years

Finishing my 3600 searches i come up here, and behold, you just discussed it 12 minutes ago, i mean posted. Alright. Let's see in practice, what i was thinking of. :)

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.

Just upgraded to 7900xt and using this cpu. Gaming at 4k 120fps on an oled and I've not noticed any issues with performance. So, guess I'm good? Good stuff!