Cpu to pair with gtx 1060 6gb

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Mrudul

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Planning a build with the gtx 1060, need suggestions for the cpu.
Ryzen 5 1500 or 1600?
Is i5 a better option.
Iwill be using it for gaming and cad/revit work but gaming mostly.
There are no 580 cards in the market here in india so gtx 1060 was my only option.
 
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Don't get the FX-8350 as the other poster suggested. It has very poor value (worse than an i5 you were initially considering). The FX series is already an end-of-life/dead-end (no upgrade path, and not to mention, consumes more power, produces more heat, and has an inefficient architecture/IPC), so, no point in getting such AM3+ platform when you are building a new system.

The Ryzen 5 1600 is your best bet for price/performance for the specific use of your PC as you mentioned.
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Yes but the GPU/CPU will not bottleneck. Both the Ryzen 5 1500X and the FX-8350 will work fine. http://thebottlenecker.com/

 
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In some games no. In some games it will. I respond to posts all the time for FX series bottlencking GPUs, even in the mid tier GPUs. And it certainly wouldn't be as good as long as a new Ryzen CPU or Intel. Suggesting an FX build in this day and age is just backwards. No two ways about it. It's not cost effective nor performance effective.
 
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Also that site is hardly what I would call accurate. doesn't take resolution or frame rate into account and those are HUGE points on whether or not a bottleneck will occur. It is aimed at folks who know absolutely nothing about computers from the few configs I plugged in and as I stated missing settings that very much should be accounted for.
 
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Don't get the FX-8350 as the other poster suggested. It has very poor value (worse than an i5 you were initially considering). The FX series is already an end-of-life/dead-end (no upgrade path, and not to mention, consumes more power, produces more heat, and has an inefficient architecture/IPC), so, no point in getting such AM3+ platform when you are building a new system.

The Ryzen 5 1600 is your best bet for price/performance for the specific use of your PC as you mentioned.
 
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