AMD Athlon 3000G review

Posted on: 12/04/2019 01:19 PM

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while that's a good result for the phenom 2 still the phenom is a 4 core 4 thread cpu while the athlon is 2 core 4 thread cpu ! To see how well the phenom fairs against it we will need a 2080ti on your phenom to see the actual difference the bottleneck on your case might even be the 560 or it might be the phenom . Cheers to em though ! i was not expecting em to release a patch to support phenoms and core 2 quads . looking at HH's review https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/far-cry-5-pc-graphics-performance-benchmark-review,4.html seems that your gpu is the bottleneck
no 560 in it ...but there is a 460 that would explain the little higher numbers you get . How's the cpu and gpu utilisation if the cpu is 80~90% and the gpu at 100% they would be a perfect match but that changes from game to game how's your experience in general on that front ?

sorry for the long blab ... i just find it interesting really


I thought the bottleneck would be the DDR2 Ram................ To make this post more interesting is that my RX560 card has drivers from 2-3 years ago and they are
17.10.1 !!!!!!!

Also I have extra juice because the card has a 6 pin power connector and even though it sucks a lot of juice I do have the GDDR5 4GB over clocked pretty dam high and also the GPU. What's funny is that FARCRY4 is a stutter fest and gave up playing it. FAR CRY5 is one of the most optimized games I have ever played.

Posted on: 12/04/2019 01:26 PM

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Anyone who's buying this for gaming really shouldn't be gaming on a PC. It can game, barely.

That said, what a fantastic little CPU. It's $50 and it even has a built in GPU. I'm not sure why anyone would buy this and overclock it but it's neat that you could. Next time I have to build a budget rig, this is on the short list.

Posted on: 12/04/2019 04:04 PM

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@Dimitrios1983 i would not worry ddr2 to be any meaningful bottleneck not till you get on higher performing surgements at the very least , while faster ram can give an advantage i,mid range spec hardware or lower as far it is sufficient to feed the subsystems that using it faster ram will make little to no difference! I mean even ddr4 @4000 assuming you could pair that with the phenom for the shake of the argument if your 560 is already maxed out will give you not noteworthy fps gain .....well at least that's my perception !

@0blivious why not ? Seems to be doing great on league of legends cs go and fortnight and will pretty much run almost everything that predates 2017 60fps locked ,Gaming is not only the latest AAA games maxed out !

Posted on: 12/04/2019 04:46 PM

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Can someone please suggest a cheap yet nice motherboard to go along with this CPU?
Cheers

Posted on: 12/04/2019 06:34 PM

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It's always interesting to see the iGPU in a $50 processor outperforming the one in an i7-8700k. Intel made huge iGPU improvements on the 5th gen Broadwells, but I guess there was little incentive to continue that trend.