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Review: AMD Athlon 200GE processor
We check out that 55 USD 2c/4t Athlon processor. These procs should have a locked multiplier with a max 3200 MHz clock frequency. But what do you know, MSI motherboards and the latest AGESA BIOS do open up that multiplier. How does close to 4000 MHz sound?
Read our review here.
Review: Cherry KC 6000 Keyboard and MC 4900 Mouse - 12/20/2018 07:01 PM
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Review: ASUS ROG Ryujin and Ryuo AIO kits - 12/19/2018 04:10 PM
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Review: ASUS ROG THOR 1200W PSU - 12/18/2018 10:30 AM
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Review: G.Skill TridentZ Royal DDR4 (3200 MHz) - 12/14/2018 03:45 PM
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Review: ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate - 12/11/2018 11:44 AM
In this review, we peek at one of the more luxurious Z390 motherboards from ASRock, meet the Z390 Taichi Ultimate. ready for 8th or 9th Gen processors this board is about performance, aesthetics and l...
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#5619597 Posted on: 12/21/2018 02:22 PM
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
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#5619604 Posted on: 12/21/2018 02:56 PM
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
Well, this is 2C/4T. So, it is close to 3 core CPU in actual performance.
Then again, cellphones use chips with much lower clock and IPC.
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
Well, this is 2C/4T. So, it is close to 3 core CPU in actual performance.
Then again, cellphones use chips with much lower clock and IPC.
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#5619616 Posted on: 12/21/2018 03:53 PM
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
Anyone buying this processor for a gaming system will be quite disappointed. This processor would work perfectly fine for a media center system or just browsing the web though. Not everyone performs tasks that require 4 or more physical cores.
Personally i think now with us going into 2019, and TBH even in the past couple of years 2 cores just aren't enough for a desktop experience, even phones and tablets for the most part are using at least 4 cores.
Find you easily reach CPU bottleneck is most cases which won't be good for most people unless you just want this as a more office machine? Then yeah i can see this being a good bargain PC for that very purpose
Anyone buying this processor for a gaming system will be quite disappointed. This processor would work perfectly fine for a media center system or just browsing the web though. Not everyone performs tasks that require 4 or more physical cores.
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#5619625 Posted on: 12/21/2018 04:11 PM
I have said chip. But I have the 320 mobo and so the OC bios do not work for me. Infact they do not even show on my bootable pen drive. which is strange.
Other non OC bios do.
Been playing NFS underground 2 and Doom3 on this throw away SOC amazing.
So GPU out put is of about 2004 or GT6800Ultra.
Game on.
I have said chip. But I have the 320 mobo and so the OC bios do not work for me. Infact they do not even show on my bootable pen drive. which is strange.
Other non OC bios do.
Been playing NFS underground 2 and Doom3 on this throw away SOC amazing.
So GPU out put is of about 2004 or GT6800Ultra.
Game on.
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Nice review and good info about the unlocking. There are actually loads of people this would be good for, a while back I got my wife that cheap dual core Pentium that they released and like this cpu it is perfect as all she does is check email, use simple office tasks, browses and plays card games.
PS I am old enough to remember the pencil trick, though it was better to use the gold proper conductive paint.