AMD Ryzen 5500

Just bought a B550 and a Ryzen 5 5500. Both were on sale on newegg. 30-40% off so and under 200 bucks. Grabbed a new case since my current one is practically falling apart. Will be back in business in a couple days. Thanks for the advice.

I had a K6/2 back in the day. There was a Pentium 4 machine and then a refurbed HP desktop with a Phenom II X4 in it. I used that until I (perhaps finally) built a machine with a Ryzen 1700x. I'm not sure where or why I have so many AM4 machines around, but my kids are still playing games fine on machines with a 1st and 2nd gen Ryzen in them. I just upgraded another to a Ryzen 5 5500. I plan to get a few more years out of it. The bang for my buck has been pretty high. I don't believe CPUs go obsolete immediately like they used to.

just an anecdata but recently I was building a HTPC/NAS. Initially I wanted N100 for pure NAS, but ended up with an 5500 AMD and I was blown away by the capabilities of IGPU. Turned out to be a quite capable gaming machine.

>For optimal performance, we recommend the sum of VRAM + RAM to be at least 80GB+. Oh nice! So I can try it in my local "low power/low cost" server at home. My homesystem does run in a ryzen 5500 + 64gb RAM + 7x RTX 3060 12gb So 64gb RAM plus 84gb VRAM I dont want to brag around, but point to solutions for us tinkerers with a small budget and high energy costs. such system can be build for around 1600 euro. The power consumption is around 520 watt. I started with a AM4 Board (b450 Chipset) and one used RTX 3060 12gb which cost around 200 Euro used if you are patient. There every additional GPU is connected with the pcie riser/extender to give the cards enough space. After a while I had replaces the pcie cards with a single pcie x4 to 6x PCIe x1 extender. It runs pretty nice. Awesome to learn and gain experience