Best budget i5?
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dudeman509
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- Jan 23, 2015
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An R5 1600 would be perfect for that workload if you were planning on spending that on an i5-7500 or so. Even the 1400/1500X would beat the i5s at those workloads.
- Nov 11, 2013
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The advantage to the 1500x is it comes with more cache (good for editing) and also comes with a better stock cooler which can oc in the 3.7ghz range without buying another one. So basically unless you want to make a run at 4.0/4.1 it's a free upgrade since you don't need the cooler
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You definitely want to oc. Doesn't require anything on your part but 2 mins in the bios or with the included ryzen master software. Ryzen (especially the 1400) is slow without an oc, the 1500x is okay out of the box. But no reason to throw away free speed.
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