Review: AMD Athlon 200GE processor
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Andy Watson
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. 🙂
Ricepudding
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
sykozis
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.
vestibule
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. 🙂
Ricepudding
I wonder how many people buy desktops for media consumption these days or just browsing the Web. Least from what I've seen with desktop sales being down it seems desktop is mainly used for those who need a bit more horsepower whilst laptops, tablets, phones have taken on the role of media players (or consoles/smart tvs).
But as I said if you just want this for media use then it's a great chip I don't see many having an issue with it. But I'd say to anyone buying the ryzen 3 would be a far better choice since the price difference is on massive (least in the UK when I checked it was around £20 different countries may vary of course)
vbetts
Moderator
So being on CCX, the memory speed is not going to matter so much anyways. It would help on apps that require that bandwidth still, but normal every day to day stuff you would not notice.
devastator
[youtube=IfHG7bj-CEI] arm might be the future
chispy
Nice review Boss , Asus has released a new Bios that also unlocks this cpu for overclocking. For $55US Dollars it will make for a good tiny itx built htpc.
rl66
Athlon 220GE (3.4ghz + 10 Euro) and 240GE (3.5ghz + 30 Euro) are already in warehouse in here, start to sale in january but i will try to put a hand on one 🙂
rl66
yes an with an average 100W for complete system you can do a complete passive HTPC system 🙂
rl66
Yes all the points... but it's not 100% compatible PC, there was lot of ultra tiny computer arm based that work really fine with kodi as an exemple but it is really limited in evolution compared to a real cheap low powered PC.
Don't make me tell that they aren't good (i use 2 of them one Pi and one Asus that someone gave to me) , it's just not the same use.
FrostNixon
I was considering this one for my htpc build, but I decided that buying a cpu which is 2.5x cheaper than my motherboard is not a great idea so I just went for the 140$ 2400g.
rl66
For pure HTPC a A320 at 40 Euro is enough (but some need bios update, and some doesn't OC while other does (on other hand the A320 doesn't OC at all if you look AMD webpage).
If you have money the 2400G is a good choise the video and the CPU are both stronger on this one,and if you choise the B450 chipset it can even be a really cool HTPC / 2nd PC
the TDP is 65w, so consider that passive cooling solution isn't a nice solution (most are limited to 65w and so after a long use it will be too weak for good cooling), use a "silent" active cooling instead.
sykozis
There's enough of a market to justify the release of these processors. Whether you understand it or not....
FrostNixon
I had to go for a b450, because there were no other ITX mobos, just two AB320s but they were eachh 110 so ai just dropped 125 for a b450 Fatal1ty itx, placing it with a 2400g inside an inwin chopin and placing it under the tv. So long trash TV OS.
Darkiee
Well, i´v been looking for a new pc for my dad, and this would make a great point to start. He doesn´t need more than that, just for browsing, bank, maybe some utube, and thats it.
Cheap rams, cheap MB, and cheap SSD, and he would be loving it.
anticupidon
For the vast majority of people using a small computer with light use, this chip makes sense and AMD gets to sell all the silicon, and chips low binned.
More cash for AMD more choice for the consumer.
@devastator
ARM is the future but has to be backed up by the native software compiled for the ARM instruction set, not simulated x86 which has known performance issues. Don't get me wrong, ARM Cavium from Gigabyte is one hell of proof what ARM could do for data centers. Just has to become available as desktop /workstations and we're set.
I want an ARM chip, Intel ME, no Spectre/Meltdown no backdoors.
NiColaoS
For some obnoxious reason, my brain is totally hardwired for Intel & Nvidia. Even back then with Intel's fiasco whilst AMD's CPUs was vastly better ( Athlon? - don't remember exactly the names ).
I had bought the Pentium 4 or Celeron instead of the much better AMD's CPU. Even now I got the i5 8500 for a while until the 9700 ( my all time favourite processor ) become dirt cheat to replace it. That's why I got Z390 M/B.
gx-x
how is this better than 2200G for 90$?
ps. People wondering why so little AMD laptops - because they don't have igpu (APU) and require additional components and additional power. On the other side, so hated intel's IGP comes free with cpu.
rl66
Again it depend on your needs... AMD's APU have nice video output but are far behind from Intel's CPU with crappy IGP on battery use... and on laptop most people prefer being unplugged 🙂
