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I remember having Athlon X4 processor. They were great.
There is a fantastic sale on eBay that has new Ryzen 7 5800X for $180, I got one last month and have been amazed by it, how smooth the games are now, how quick the responses are. I am loving it. It’s my first Ryzen/AMD CPU. It’s so great.
There’s always a market for a sub $50 CPU. Office PC, Grandma’s HTPC, a starter computer for your kid, etc.
Too bad they’re so expensive in Australia, A$159 here.
It’s only A$189 for a 5600G, I’d be all over one of these for AUD$79 (or less!).
I built a PC for my wife’s beauty salon with the remains of my old PCs. i7 980 CPU, Asus Sabertooth X58 MB, 16GB kingston DDR3 1666Mhz, Kingston 500GB SSD, AMD HD7870… I could have used a RX 570 8Gb but for what she uses it, it would be a waste.
No shit, I am running a Win NT machine just for excel. Until this thing dies, I have no reason to replace it whatsoever. Too bad CRT went kaput years ago.
Appliance hardware, kiosks, industrial computers, etc. Equipment we buy at work, a lot of times it comes with older processors.
Yep, that too! There is an enormous amount of lower end hardware used in such kinds of equipment.
There’s nothing wrong with the 14nm, and not everyone needs 16 cores to use word and excel
That’s fine and all, but I think 4c/4t should be the absolute lowest tier, not 2c/4t. It also comes with a Vega iGPU, and AMD already said it is winding down support for new drivers.
It’s less power efficient
The box for this CPU unironically goes hard
It honestly looks like the Starfield 7800X3D box at a glance
14nm CPUs go hard
Just bought replacements parts for my pc (motherboard died, killing CPU and ram). I love the prices of the AM4 platform ;-)
Why does the Athlon series get all of the cool looking boxes? Lmao.
There aren’t a lot of places AMD can use 14nm anymore. They’re locked into a wafer supply agreement with GlobalFoundries until 2025 and GF abandoned development on their sub-14/12nm nodes.
Since AMD is moving even IO dies to more advanced nodes, they’re running out of places where they can use GlobalFoundries.
With no representative to compete in the entry-level market, it’s easy to see why AMD has kept the Athlon 3000G alive after all these years. It might sound shocking, but the Athlon 3000G is one of the few processors that haven’t lost its value since its debut. The Athlon 3000G launched at $49 four years ago, and the Zen chip still retails at the same MSRP. The price varies depending on the stock, as third-party sellers often jack up the price tag to around $65 or over $100.
it depreciates with inflation. crazy. no wonder they’re keeping them in production and refreshing the packaging.
Back in 2019 i build a computer with athlon ge 200. Was using it until i bought 1600 a couole momths after. Sure, athlon was not a powerhouse, however, it was a good cpu for basic home computer. And the fact it played a lot of older games without problems was nuts.
Good thing they ditched AM3-era heatsink for modern Wraith Stealth cooler. There’s still a market for everyday desktop PC for home and office use.
However, it still needs to be paired with between old A320 to X470 mobos only. A520 and above mobos are unsupported.
There would never be enough throughput for silicon if we only used the latest nodes. These factories can operate for decades
If this thing was 4 core it would be incredible
These and other products (like Zen+ embedded) likely fulfill AMD’s (contractual) wafer-buy obligations to GloFo until 2025. Though GloFo is seeing pretty high demand on 12/14nm for products that don’t really need leading-edge silicon. Trailing-edge is just fine and much more affordable.