







The New AMD Athlon™ Processor with Radeon™ Vega Graphics
Advanced AMD Processing and Graphics Technologies for Everyday Users.
The most advanced entry-level processor AMD has ever created, for users who value fast responsiveness and built-in Radeon™ Vega Graphics, with the cutting-edge processor architecture you need to take advantage of graphics card upgrades.
Surf the internet smoothly, stream videos without a hiccup, and play the most popular eSports games in high-definition 720p.
Integrated Radeon™ graphics can provide smooth eSports gaming at 720p HD without a graphics card. It's also compatible with FreeSync™ monitors to eliminate tearing.
Responsive,
Reliable Performance
From game consoles to airplanes and Sony to HP, the world's top products and companies depend on advanced AMD computing solutions.
A Future-Ready Platform
The advanced socket AM4 platform is ready for Ryzen™ processors, and designed for the demands of tomorrow.
Pros: -Coming from a Core i5-6402p, an H110 motherboard from MSI and 8 GB of Team Group Elite DDR4 2400, the Athlon 200GE, an AsRock B450M Pro4 and 16 GB of DDR4 3000 (still clocked down to 2666, but with slightly tighter timings), leaving the iGPU disabled to free up those last 4 PCI Express lanes, I saw an average framerate drop of only 5-10 FPS in most games, and this is running a Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+ with a GENEROUS undervolt OC. This includes games like Guild Wars 2, Path of Exile, Project Cars, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat X, Tekken 7, Modded Crysis Wars, and some other relatively CPU and/or GPU heavy games, mostly run at 1440p in VSR, with a few more taxing titles running at native 1080p. -Drastic drop in power usage on idle and gaming as reported by HWMonitor and HWiNFO64, as well as no longer having issues with resume from suspend to disk sleep with Windows 10, so I can now actually let my PC go to sleep, thus saving even more on my electric bill. -Still keeps up with my pro recording in REAPER DAW, though I re-purposed the old rig for use with REAPER's native Linux client, because I'm cool like that, and need 2 desktops AND a laptop. (No, I don't, but weird flex is still a flex) -BIOS revision dropped allowing me to OC the thing, but that would negate some of my power savings, but it's cool that the option is still there.
Cons: -Doesn't comply when commanded to make me a sandwich, even when I use "sudo !!" after being rebuked for not having super user privileges. -Doesn't make waffles or omelettes in same scenario -I still lose the game whenever someone reminds me of it's existence, and now you just lost the game, too, readers! Sorry...
Overall Review: Would Recommend, would buy again. I use my rig for gaming and pro audio, and it suits me fine. Seriously, LAN Centers need some 220GE's and some GTX 1060 6GB cards or RX 580's, and they're set, just saying. I really don't understand all the reviewer hatred and unfair testing I've seen, like TechPowerUP leaving the iGPU enabled during their 1080 Ti benchmark with this chip, so the discrete card only ran on an x4 bus, as opposed to x8... dude... not cool. Keeps up with real time audio in REAPER and MixBus and Sonar, even with a ton of VST and DX plugins... not sure what the deal is with text reviewers throwing all this shade. Meanwhile, all the TechTubeVerse loves this chip, and rightly so!!! GamersNexus, Hardware Unboxed, LTT, and Hardware Canucks all praise this little chip for beating the odds, so 3 countries and 2 continents worth of tech people disagree with the unfair crappola fest. >>My Rig: -AMD Athlon 200GE -Sapphire TriXX Series Nitro+ AMD RX 480 4 GB -Team Group T-Force RGB DDR4 3000 dual channel 16 GB kit -AsRock B450M Pro 4 -Team Group T-Force RGB 250 GB TLC 3D NAND SSD -Seagate 2 TB 7200 RPM -Seagate 1 TB Hybrid Drive 7200 RPM -DeepCool Gamerstorm Maelstrom 120mm AIO -RaidMax Hyperion Micro ATX Chassis -RaidMax Scorpio 635 Watt LED 80+ Bronze Full Modular PSU -EZ-DIY-FAB Vertical GPU mount bracket -Various after market fans with enough UV action to cause malignant tumors