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expiredN3RD_01 posted Sep 5, 2025 7:15 PM
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 + Gigabyte B550M GAMING X mATX Mobo + ASUS NC01 Mouse Pad
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This is not a bad price on the bundle but it is a little awkward. Just not really sure who this makes sense for. I have a hard time recommending a new AM4 system for anything but the most budget constrained scenarios so an iGPU would be nice for your basic web browsing, office apps type usage but this doesn't have it so you need to add a GPU. If you are adding a discrete GPU the lower cache will hurt the gaming performance in at least some situations. Then again you aren't pairing this with a 5090 so it's entirely possible you'll just end up GPU limited anyway and be okay. Just remember if you are looking at benchmarks this is going to be closest to a 5600g.
If this was the 5600g it would make a great officially supported windows 11 upgrade, potentially even reusing some DDR4 from a previous build. If it was a 5600x the gaming performance with a discrete GPU would be better. DDR4 price also seems to be up quite a bit, at least here in the US so that makes the price difference between AM4 and AM5 even smaller.
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Great if you need to upgrade some Skylake or Haswell system. CPU doesn't have PCIe 4.0 hardware even though the board does.
Neither part are what I'd call high performance.
Apparently if you use the PCIe x16 slot, you disable the top M.2 slot? Maybe it runs slower off the chipset? Board gets decent reviews on Amazon.
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This is not a bad price on the bundle but it is a little awkward. Just not really sure who this makes sense for. I have a hard time recommending a new AM4 system for anything but the most budget constrained scenarios so an iGPU would be nice for your basic web browsing, office apps type usage but this doesn't have it so you need to add a GPU. If you are adding a discrete GPU the lower cache will hurt the gaming performance in at least some situations. Then again you aren't pairing this with a 5090 so it's entirely possible you'll just end up GPU limited anyway and be okay. Just remember if you are looking at benchmarks this is going to be closest to a 5600g.
If this was the 5600g it would make a great officially supported windows 11 upgrade, potentially even reusing some DDR4 from a previous build. If it was a 5600x the gaming performance with a discrete GPU would be better. DDR4 price also seems to be up quite a bit, at least here in the US so that makes the price difference between AM4 and AM5 even smaller.
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Eh? Can you have GPU and also nvme m.2 at same time (different slots)?
Eh? Can you have GPU and also nvme m.2 at same time (different slots)?
"The PCIEX16 slot can only support a graphics card or an NVMe SSD. If only one graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot."
Eh? Can you have GPU and also nvme m.2 at same time (different slots)?
I think that's just an odd way of indicating that it doesn't support bifrication and that the top PCI-E slot is the only 16x slot. The bottom one is a 4x electrical slot. The M2 section says the top M2 slot is off the CPU and would be a PCI-E gen 3 slot with this processor and the second M2 slot is off the chipset so neither should have anything shared with the primary PCI-E slot for the GPU.
This is not a bad price on the bundle but it is a little awkward. Just not really sure who this makes sense for. I have a hard time recommending a new AM4 system for anything but the most budget constrained scenarios so an iGPU would be nice for your basic web browsing, office apps type usage but this doesn't have it so you need to add a GPU. If you are adding a discrete GPU the lower cache will hurt the gaming performance in at least some situations. Then again you aren't pairing this with a 5090 so it's entirely possible you'll just end up GPU limited anyway and be okay. Just remember if you are looking at benchmarks this is going to be closest to a 5600g.
If this was the 5600g it would make a great officially supported windows 11 upgrade, potentially even reusing some DDR4 from a previous build. If it was a 5600x the gaming performance with a discrete GPU would be better. DDR4 price also seems to be up quite a bit, at least here in the US so that makes the price difference between AM4 and AM5 even smaller.
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If I get this I'll have 2 systems (minus a gpu) sooooo win win?
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