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a portion of this video is sponsored by salesforce watch till the end to learn

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more when we think of a high performance CPU these days it's all about the

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processing course i mean sure 5.3

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gigahertz is more than 5 gigahertz but if you've only got four cores versus

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eight you're getting left behind but that's not how things used to be

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just three short years ago four cores was all you needed on the desktop mostly

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because a single company decided that for you so in this installment of why

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the advertiser friendly content are you all buying this

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we're gonna see why the invisible hand of the free market thinks that the ryzen

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5 3600 is the indisputable sweet spot

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it's because it's the best bang for the buck video over thanks for watching guys

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if you're looking for something else to watch keep watching this video

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the ryzen 5 3600 is currently the number one best seller on amazon.com with 3rd

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gen ryzen in general making up 7 of the

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top 10 which is just an unbelievable coup for AMD

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it's a similar story on newegg with 3rd gen only eclipsed by previous gen chips

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from both AMD and Intel that frequently end up on clearance specials

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but how did these multi-core ryzen cpus come to dominate the market in the first

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place to answer this we have to go way

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back to the mid-2000s the last time that

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AMD was a competitive threat to Intel

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AMD had the athlon x2 and Intel had the

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core 2 duo and even back then the advantages of having more CPU cores in

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those cases two were mostly in making sure that background tasks wouldn't

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suddenly spike your CPU and grind whatever you were doing in the

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foreground to a screeching halt when phenom 2 flopped and AMD's disastrous fx

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cpus failed to provoke a response out of Intel the industry kind of settled into

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quad core as the top of the line while software continued to play catch-up

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that meant that despite multi-threading becoming more mainstream as older single

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core cpus became obsolete most software could only really count on

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there being two to four cores in the

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typical computer sold at your local best buy so that is what most games and

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desktop software got optimized for now Intel kept going with the easy to

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produce and easy to remember product lineup all the way until 2017 when

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generational improvements became so meager that something had to give

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enter AMD ryzen with up to double the

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CPU course for roughly the same price i mean sure early software struggled to

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take advantage of the new course not to mention AMD's unique core layout but

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today this has been mostly resolved and AMD has not only caught up with Intel

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but have actually surpassed them in many ways not that it was easy at the root of the

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trouble was global foundries AMD's chip production partner who struggled with 14

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nanometer and later 12 nanometer production that led to stability issues

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due to poor quality silicon and even consumers who wanted a ryzen CPU

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couldn't always find one on the shelf due to product shortages unlike at

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lttstore.com where you never even see a shelf because it's online with today's

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third gen ryzens though AMD has two big things going for them first is tsmc's

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much improved seven nanometer process this is big well metaphorically speaking

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while nanometers aren't always relevant seven nanometer was a major leap forward

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and provided a much needed shot in the ARM for ryzen and enabled the second big

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improvement the chiplet design that's used throughout the lineup

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chiplets or core complex dies or ccds

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are made much smaller than traditional all-in-one processor dies because what

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they do is they move all the complex io to a separate dial together allowing AMD

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to essentially just produce one type of small ccd and then thanks to

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the magic of binning bundle them with whichever i o die they need since

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they're essentially the same physical design across the entire product stack

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this means that overall performance stability and yields all improve and the

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number of core combinations increases so a single ccd chip like our ryzen 5 3600

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can have anywhere from four to eight cores

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and those exact same ccds can be combined and rearranged in an array of

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up to eight of them to create up to a 64

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core threadripper that's very streamlined from a production standpoint

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now back to the 3600 for a moment though this is a CPU that kind of straddles the

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line between the old and the new with

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six reasonably fast multi-threading capable cores and with a very attractive

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price about 205 not to mention that it comes with a

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cooler in the box although we wouldn't recommend using

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that if you want to overclock which of course though you're free to do on all

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ryzen cpus AMD's older cpus are still

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strong contenders though so it all comes

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down to compatibility no matter what generation of ryzen

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motherboard you have you can actually run any of these cpus

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so if you're waiting for zen 3 you can buy a ryzen 5 2600 and save a buck today

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with the option of upgrading later on and the cool thing is it works the other

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way around too if you've got a first gen ryzen system you can actually get a

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significant increase in performance by upgrading to a ryzen 5 3600 today and

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then just drop it in with a simple BIOS update this is a huge advantage for AMD

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right now because Intel's z370 chipset actually broke compatibility on older

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cpus with their z490 successor on a

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completely new socket so if you're like most people you'll

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probably feel a bit burned about only getting two generations of compatibility

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with team blue for all these years when for the past several years

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AMD has done a much better job of maintaining intergenerational

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compatibility by the way AMD is due to

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launch 4th gen ryzen very soon so get subscribed so you don't miss our review

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as for the performance of this puppy well there's a reason why our budget 4k

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video editing pc used a ryzen 5 3600

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taking advantage of a compatible previous generation motherboard we got

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the cost of our whole workstation down below a thousand dollars and without any

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overclocking impress the heck out of dennis who usually edits videos on a

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workstation that costs twice as much and don't take just our word alone steve

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over at gamersnexus found that in general productivity performance of this

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chip is roughly in line with Intel's core i5 10600k a CPU that costs nearly a

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hundred dollars more and doesn't even have a cooler in the box and it's no

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secret that the ryzen 5 3600 will handle gaming too albeit with performance that

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below but not far below team blue especially

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at this price point this combination of acceptable gaming performance and

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stellar productivity has attracted tinkerers content creators and of course

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thrift seeking gamers it just straight up is the best all-arounder do

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everything CPU it's not the you know star of the show

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at anything but it doesn't have to be it

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can go wherever you need it and it comes with everything you need to run it's

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