AMD Ryzen 5 1600 65W AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler (YD1600BBAFBOX)

July 2021 - At $150 they are far less valuable. I would just go for a sub $200 3600 if you can get one. This is a great chip (for $85 a piece what I paid in 2020) and I have four systems in the house paired with these but in 2021 for $150 I would shop at least Zen2 3000 series. If these drop down to $100 or less then yes I would recommend. Even on Intel they have a the 10400F which is a great buy.Update Feb 14th : I just bought two more of these and pairing them with Amazon Warehouse Tomahawk B450 boards($76 a piece). I decided to sell my old Sandybridge cpu/board/ram and would even upgrade my kids hand me down PC's to these as the price isn't that much considering I get about $80-100 for each of my old hardware setups. What those systems do overclocked with more watts and temps, this does effortlessly stock , cool and quiet. I am a bang for the buck shopper with 7 PC's around the house , so these 1600AF can someday replace my Intel Dual core setups.I recently upgraded my Sandybridge 8yr old 4.7ghz i7 with a 2700x for $136 after cash back from Amazon card(Thanks Tech Deals youtube channel). I liked the upgrade so much that I also wanted a similar feel for 1 of my MediaPC's that I run a GTX970 in. Figured this 1600AF would likely be a great value for a budget HD/4k TV gaming setup. I just finished installing it and I ran a benchmark on my 2700x and then dropped in the 1600AF all stock settings with 3200mhz C16. Without changing a thing except CPU, both runs showed my GTX1070 is 99% GPU bound under "The Shadow of the Tomb Raider" benchmark. I know lower detail would help show performance differences in the CPU but for my quick test I am very pleased with the performance at stock. No difference than my 2700x. Max temp is 34c with a Noctua 14 cooler. I will soon move this 1600AF CPU/MB/RAM over to the Media PC case with Prism RGB cooler from my 2700x purchase.(update it's running great as the MediaPC, cool,quiet and smooth) Loving this value. Check out my attached screenshots of afterburner CPU utilization and benchmark results. Hope this helps someone!

First off this is a 12 nm cpu, not the old 14 nm part. The efficiency and performance are almost identical to the Ryzen 5 2600 minus an ever so slight clock speed reduction. That being said, all Ryzen cpu's are unlocked so you can easily overclock it to be the same or better even with the stock cooler included. For $85 you cant beat the performance of this chip. Granted this is still a mid tier chip and performs as such. Don't expect to pair it with a RTX 2080 ti and be equal to a $500 + 9900ks (keep spending lol) cpu. The 1600 AF is perfect to be paired with a used RX 580 or GTX 1060 and have a cheap but decent performing system that you can upgrade in the future when you are ready. I personally am using this for my sff (small form factor) build and am extremely happy with the results.If you've been locked into Intel for what feels like forever and want to break the chains without breaking the bank, give this one a try and I think you will be pleasantly surprised with what you get for $85 bucks!

I bought mines back in 2020 but couldn't use it because of the gpu shortage. had to wait like 2 years just to get a GPU. started using this back at may of 2022. I'm still using this chip. it's great for streaming, gaming & content creation! it's going to be a sad day when i upgrade to a new chip. definitely recommend this for budget builds!broke the AMD fan on accident when trying to unscrew a screw. :(

I am a huge fan of this AF variant of the 1600. I can confirm this product listing is for the 12nm refresh, running under a Hyper 212 LED vertical push/pull (I have a 1st revision AM4 support model with incorrect slats) and running Crossfire 2x 570 4gb's (unrelated: don't do this, it's not for the feint of heart and very much out of support after Radeon driver 20.1.2).One concern I would have is possible motherboard support- I did purchase an MSI B450-A Pro MAX that did support it out of the box but I have heard anecdotally that it *theoretically* may not play nice with certain motherboards out of the box due to it listing as a 1000 series part but internally it is 2000 series. Very old BIOS revisions of other mobo's may not post or error out attempting to get to OS?Performance is fantastic out of the box, boosts up to 3.7GHz, and stays there, when ram is set to A-XMP (16gb 2933MHz dual channel CL16 here) and during all core sustained settles at 3.45GHz with barely any heat. Mine benches somewhere between the R5 1600X and the R5 2600.Currently with the 1600AF being sold in the USA for $85 and the R5 3600 being on sale regularly for $175 gaming has never been cheaper with CPUs. If you have the budget spring for the 3600 however I am 100% happy long term with the 1600AF. Room to upgrade but I likely won't need to for a long time.

Pros:-6 core/12 threads chews through any multitasking operation-I've never seen the CPU get over 35% usage while gaming or multitasking-Really good price/performance ratio (Paid 104.99USD at the time)Cons:-Stock cooler may not fit (It didn't in my case even after 2 days of trying to fit it on-Some motherboards may not support the 1600 AF without an updated bios(My original issue with an A320 board by AsrockOverall:-The CPU is the 1600 AF model variant, meaning it has the updated 12nm architecture of the Ryzen 5 2600, with slightly lower boost clocks.-The CPU is a great little performer if you can get it for sub $120-In my case, the CPU cooler had a defect where the threaded(and springed) screw was screwed in slightly sideways, resulting in me having to purchase an aftermarket cooler