Review: Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 can breathe new life into older AMD PCs

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamApr 4, 2022, 9:00 am143 pts
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 5 5600. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Nearly a year and a half after the launch of the first Ryzen 5000 processors, the Zen 3 CPU architecture is finally coming to cheaper chips. AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 CPUs (which go on sale today for $159 and $199, respectively) are both six-core…

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