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Athlon X4 950 or Ryzen 2200g?

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I've been messing around with pcpartpicker to get myself back into the game of building computers, and I've noticed something interesting: The Athlon X4 950 is very similar on the surface to the Ryzen 2200g, but it's cheaper. I obviously want to save money, but I don't want to make a poor choice. Is there something I'm missing?

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The X4 uses a very old microarchitecture so it's much slower

 

The cheapest AM4 CPU I'd recommend is an Athlon 3000G, however on US PCpp there's some good pricing for first gen

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The 1200 at a mere $60 is pretty sweet, but that 1500X for $70 is a great value.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 10 and Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

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7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

it uses a very old microarchitecture so it's much slower

 

The cheapest AM4 CPU I'd recommend is an Athlon 3000G, however on US PCpp there's some good pricing for first gen

image.thumb.png.6b5f1ab36262adcde7d9783042a7604e.png

 

The 1200 at a mere $60 is pretty sweet, but that 1500X for $70 is a great value.

Thank you! I'll look for some 1st or 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs.

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X4 950 (and other AM4 A6/A8/A10 X4 CPUs) are FM2/FM2+ APUs/APU with disabled GPUs on new platform. You buy them to show people they could sell 7640x/7740x for you and you'll put them in a daily system

 

in other words, it's for people who dont know nor care about performance or value

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