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** AMD Athlon X4 950 AM4. Budget Friendly CPU **

It's not a "Zen" based core though, it's an "Excavator" based Bristol Ridge. Even at £50 it's still terrible performance/£ compared to a Pentium G4560 if you can get hold of one, or a Ryzen 3 1200
 
I guess if you wanted a future AM4 CPU or APU it might make sense but I really don't see the point unless your current setup has died and you need something to tide you over.
 
Armageus said:
It's not a "Zen" based core though, it's an "Excavator" based Bristol Ridge. Even at £50 it's still terrible performance/£ compared to a Pentium G4560 if you can get hold of one, or a Ryzen 3 1200
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Aww, if it was Zen based that would've made it very similar to a low end i5 performance. Would've been fantastic for a budget PC.
 
This has my attention. I have a spare b350 board I was going to drop a r3 1200 in for my daughter until I swap out my 1700 for the 7nm zen. Mainly for word processing and roblox, YouTube etc this should do fine for the price.
 
You could build a decent upgradable system for not much money with Bristol Ridge. Really like this chip.

The A12 9800 seems decent too.
 
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When do you think these will be around?

at £49 it would fill a Gap for folks until they had enough Reddies or could justify a more expensive purchase
 
I don't see how they'd be £49, considering it's basically an R3 1200 with an IGP and that chip is still over £100. That's why I don't really get AMD's budget chip pricing.
 
DragonQ said:
I don't see how they'd be £49, considering it's basically an R3 1200 with an IGP and that chip is still over £100. That's why I don't really get AMD's budget chip pricing.
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It's an Athlon branded CPU, there is no IGPU unless I am very much mistaken. The APU will be branded Ax xxxx if they follow their naming scheme from previous gens

Also has no L3 cache. It's a salvage part hence the price
 
Yeah that was my thought

Would be a mega cheap Entry to AM4 for my 2nd machine

Could offload my Fx8350 & move over to this for a bit then drop in a 1600 down the line
 
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