Which of these three builds are best?

[Juusuhako]

Hello all,
I'm helping a girlfriend of mine picking out a new PC. She's been on a laptop for years and simply wants a PC where she can install a game without thinking twice about whether it'll run properly or not.

In regards to this I've been given three build suggestions, and I was hoping someone would see them through and give an opinion on what might be best. Although I'm more than open for changes in the builds, mind you I'm from Denmark, so prices may vary.

Build #1 (Ryzen 5 1600 - ca. £832 with monitor and 2nd hand GPU)
Hardware (link)
Monitor (link)
+ a 2nd hand 1060 6GB.

Build #2 (i3-8100 - ca. £784 with the same monitor from Build #1)
Hardware (link)

Build #3 (i5-6400 - ca. £832) - Since I have no website to list them I have to list them myself.
Monitor - 24" Samsung Sf350
Case - Zalman Z1
PSU - Corsair VS 450W
Motherboard - MSI H110M PRO-D
CPU - Intel i5-6400
Ram - 16GB DDR4-2400
SSD - 275GB Crucial SSD
GPU - 1060 3GB

So basically I dont know whats better - Ryze 5 1600, i3-8100 or i5-6400. Notice that only build #1 has the 6GB-version of 1060, although I probably could find a 2nd hand aswell for the other builds.

 

[AverageNinja]

I'd personally go for that Ryzen build. I'd try and stretch to this motherboard and some 3000MHz RAM if your budget allows it. Ryzen loves fast memory

 

[WYP]

I'd deffo try and go for the 6GB GTX 1060 if you can. It has more CUDA cores and the larger bank of VRAM will help a lot in the future as VRAM utilisation increases.

If you go for the Ryzen build I would move to the motherboard that AverageNinja suggested, as those heatsinks will help a lot of your ever overclock. Faster memory will help a lot as well if you can afford it.

 

[Juusuhako]

I'd personally go for that Ryzen build. I'd try and stretch to this motherboard and some 3000MHz RAM if your budget allows it. Ryzen loves fast memory

I'd deffo try and go for the 6GB GTX 1060 if you can. It has more CUDA cores and the larger bank of VRAM will help a lot in the future as VRAM utilisation increases.

If you go for the Ryzen build I would move to the motherboard that AverageNinja suggested, as those heatsinks will help a lot of your ever overclock. Faster memory will help a lot as well if you can afford it.

It may stretch her budget a little which is £832 (7000DKK), but she might be willing to wait that extra month or so to get it.

In regards to OC I honestly don't plan on doing so. My own build is OC'ed but it runs on Vcore set to Auto because my H100i can handle it, I'm not sure a stock cooler will, and I don't plan on finding the best manual setting since I am no OC-expert, nor would I have the time to sit for several hours doing stress-testing etc. for every new setting until I find the best one. So with no OC'ing in mind, is the Ryzen still the best bet?

Is there anything new "around the corner" worth waiting for?

 

[AverageNinja]

The Ryzen stock cooler is actually fairly capable. If you know what you're doing, you might even be able to get 3.8GHz out of it, but virtually every Ryzen 5 1600 should be able to clock to 3.6GHz with the stock cooler at reasonable volts. If you're dead-set on not overclocking, I'd personally say that the Ryzen system would still be your best bet, although opinions may vary on that. Since Intel has finally released mainstream six-core CPUs, more and more games will likely be able to take full advantage of the extra cores of Ryzen in the future.

I don't believe there's any new stuff coming out. A Ryzen refresh might come out in the first half of next year (rumours suggest it'll come out in February) but in my opinion you might as well go for the 1600. Doubt it'll make a huge difference. There likely won't be new GPUs for a while, too. Nvidia is still milking Pascal, and AMD won't release Navi until the second half of 2018 as it stands.

 

[Juusuhako]

The Ryzen stock cooler is actually fairly capable. If you know what you're doing, you might even be able to get 3.8GHz out of it, but virtually every Ryzen 5 1600 should be able to clock to 3.6GHz with the stock cooler at reasonable volts. If you're dead-set on not overclocking, I'd personally say that the Ryzen system would still be your best bet, although opinions may vary on that. Since Intel has finally released mainstream six-core CPUs, more and more games will likely be able to take full advantage of the extra cores of Ryzen in the future.

I don't believe there's any new stuff coming out. A Ryzen refresh might come out in the first half of next year (rumours suggest it'll come out in February) but in my opinion you might as well go for the 1600. Doubt it'll make a huge difference. There likely won't be new GPUs for a while, too. Nvidia is still milking Pascal, and AMD won't release Navi until the second half of 2018 as it stands.

Thanks for the info.

While I would love to OC, she lives at a school where I can't exactly sit around an entire day to do stress-testing every time I change voltage and what not. Like I wrote earlier, I personally just set my (clock speed?) to 4.3 and nothing else was touched, took 20 seconds - Auto Vcore handles the rest (apparently). Doing it manually, theres so much more than Vcore to fiddle with that I have no idea what is, and I wouldn't wanna risk damaging the system doing something I have no experience with (unless, the stock cooler can handle Vcore at Auto - or if this too varies depending on the Motherboard - mines a Z77X-D3H).