Considering a ryzen 5 4500 but can't find any info about it

[thomasvice]

Hello everyone, I'm currently building a PC for a friend around a 500-600$ budget. For a GPU I went for a GTX 1660 and for the CPU I opted for either an i5 11400f or similar, at the time of putting together a to-buy list there were no AMD alternatives that could compete in price with the i5.

 

Around a month ago AMD released a few budget oriented processors, among them the Ryzen 5 4500 (non U) caught my attention because it is similarly priced but can run on the much cheaper (at least in my country) AM4 based motherboards. However I cannot find anything about this CPU apart from the official AMD website, I have no Idea how it performs, all the benchmark sites take you to the 4500U which is a mobile chip. Has anybody had any contact with this chip? is it even real? Should I buy it? 

 

I appreciate any info you guys can give me, thanks a lot in advance.

 

[SupaKomputa]

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-4500

perform similar to 3600, which is not bad at all.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Country?

Uses?

 

3600 may be cheaper than 4500 and 3600 has 4x more cache so 3600 >>> 4500, though im reffering to used parts here

 

Also you can find used b450 for pretty cheap, here in indo the decent b450s like b450 pro4 can be found slightly less than 60$

[Chiyawa]

Ryzen 5 4500 is a decent processor, but you'll lose PCIe Gen4 and less cache. The CPU performance is a little mix between Ryzen 5 3500 and Ryzen 5 3600, and your game may stutter a little because of the low cache.

 

Anyway, you might want to check your motherboard, especially the BIOS. You need to update the motherboard BIOS to the latest one (or any BIOS that support the processor).

 

So, you say your friend's budget is USD500-600? Well, it's probably a little far stretch as GTX1660 in my area already cost me around USD350 (new). Well, if you can find cheaper then good for you, even though it was used one.

 

Anyway, I recently build a budget gaming PC for my friend in around USD950. You can look at this list if you're interested. I actually use Silverstone Viva 650W Gold PSU, but seems like PC Part Picker doesn't have it on their list...

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($184.00 @ Newegg) (You can get Ryzen 5 3600 if they're still available in your region.)
Motherboard: ASRock B550M Steel Legend Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($154.76 @ Amazon) (A bit overkill, but this motherboard can run Ryzen 9 5950X with light OC. The VRM is not bad. Also has some RGB lighting)
Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($31.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($31.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston NV1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB Phantom Gaming D OC Video Card  ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Deepcool MATREXX 40 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($131.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $836.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 02:43 EDT-0400

 

Regards

Chiyawa