I love it.
I’m a terrible dad, I turned my kids GPUs that I bought into mining gear and now built them computers running off the 5600G. Ones 12 and the other is 6. They love Fortnite and Minecraft plus have a PS5, but they’re hooked on PC, but don’t care about enthusiast level graphics and performance. I was able to get Fortnite running 1080P epic with textures and view distance, shadows were down but anti aliasing was high and runs smooth like 45 FPS, so it can run 60 FPS with textures turned down, but not needed. Minecraft was easily smooth and it ran Apex no problem. Luckily I can drop a GPU in later, but Yeesh by this time next year a 6600g might be out. Game performance seems to be on par with a 5700G. I’ve been considering this setup for myself with the new GeForce Now offering a streaming service that provides RTX 3080 performance. It’s definitely worth a shot, resell value is so high. It’ll only depreciate more than 10-20$ if you were to damage it. I have bought multiple of these, I have had no trouble with boards that were using 5000 series to begin with and I’ve had no trouble with brand new boards, Ive had great luck with boards that were using 3000 series before, but only issues I had were when I bought used motherboards or refurbished motherboards. I still have 3000 series chips to help with bios and all, but If you’re building from scratch and you’re buying a second hand or refurbished board, then good luck, my fail rate is like 60% with the boards, but to have backup boards to see that it’s not the CPUs fault. Just pointing that out, because you can run into all kinds of stuff, cable loose, ram bad, psu gone bad, I’ve had a case with a bad power button, to just swap everything over to another case to find out it’s just the power button. I support second hand, I haven’t had any issues with second hand boards from trusted sellers on eBay, but I have from some of the so called top refurbishers found on Amazon and they can be found on eBay too, I don’t believe there’s much quality control happening on their end, when like new is Like Broken Actually and it’s why it was returned in the first place, then reboxed/refurbished whoops! Glob on the thermal paste strap on the easy diy fan and have some fun!Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
