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AMD 1200 or 2200G?

ED209

ED209

ED209

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I am building my son a PC for his birthday which is the end of next month.

So far I have chosen the following parts for him

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £179.67 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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I have a PSU, Windows, Monitor etc for him already but I cannot decide on the processor.

If I use the 1200 I then have a spare Radeon HD 5830 1GB but looking at the 2200G I am wondering if the Vega graphics would be better than the HD 5830 as one in dedicated gpu and the other is built in and would use system ram.

I could also change the case to a Micro atx one if the 5830 is not required but this is 30cm long

He would be using the PC for the following games.

All Lego games
Garden Warfare 1 and 2
All sorts of Roblox games.

thanks a lot!
 
Pretty sure the on board GPU will be better than a 5830, let alone be quieter and consume a lot less power.

Definitely get the APU, the 1200 is now pointless unless you get it a lot cheaper.
 
The 2200G has a far more modern GPU build in it that supports the newest stuff like DX12 and FreeSync.
That HD 5830 is very old now so who knows how long it will continue to run.

Get faster ram like Journey suggested since Ryzen CPUs, including the 2200G gets a noticeable speed bump with it.
 
Journey said:
I'd go with the 2200G, since the graphics card you have is pretty old, and won't really be any improvement on the built in GPU.

Also change the RAM to this one, same price but 3000MHz which is much better for a Ryzen build and will give the GPU a nice speed boost.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £77.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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I did a 2200G build with the same 3000MHz ram, it worked perfectly.
 
two options if board doesn't have 2200g support bios;
request boot kit from AMD- no idea how long that takes or,
send to Gigabyte to be flashed
bit more, nicer case and 3200hz ram. 2200g/2400g effected even more by ram speed then Ryzen CPUs due to iGPU using the ram speed for its own

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £218.99 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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seem 2fps from 3000 to 3200hz > as Journey put it , if 3200 kit aint on sale not worth it

same as above 2fps increase from 3200 to 3600hz , if you can get it to work

is worth noticing latency timings drop with increase ram speed

just same shame theirs no avaergae or lowest frame rate shown , would personally have higher average & lowest frame count
 
Cheers for the replies everyone.

I have decided to go for the following.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £266.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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any suggestions on another mobo? cant decide on one yet as some only run at a max of 2666mhz ram, I will need to check the B350 has the latest bios to use this cpu as well.
 
with other vendors mobo and BIOS, only thing is taking the shot to see if it has sticker stating raven ridge compatible, if not you'll have to ask AMD for a boot kit .
Its a question of stock, how long its sat on he shelf for / is it a fast selling board so newer stock comes in/ have vendor recalled back older stock to replaced with flashed stock
 
orbitalwalsh said:
with other vendors mobo and BIOS, only thing is taking the shot to see if it has sticker stating raven ridge compatible, if not you'll have to ask AMD for a boot kit .
Its a question of stock, how long its sat on he shelf for / is it a fast selling board so newer stock comes in/ have vendor recalled back older stock to replaced with flashed stock
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I am hoping its on a recent bios as this was out of stock at the weekend but going to call anyway to see if they can make sure it is before sending it out.

Journey said:
Just call OCUk and do the order over the phone, if they want your cash they'll make sure the board you get is compatible. ;)
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I shall do that either that or place the order and then do a post on the forum customer service section or webnote as depends on how lazy im feeling lol
 
ED209 said:
Cheers for the replies everyone.

I have decided to go for the following.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £266.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)
​

any suggestions on another mobo? cant decide on one yet as some only run at a max of 2666mhz ram, I will need to check the B350 has the latest bios to use this cpu as well.
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Its a shame OcUK seem a bit behind other retailers with some board releases,since there are two mATX X370 boards for between £70 to £80 which apparently support Ryzen APUs out of the box:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370M-DS3H-rev-1x#kf
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370M-Gaming-3-rev-1x#kf
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Its a shame OcUK seem a bit behind other retailers with some board releases,since there are two mATX X370 boards for between £70 to £80 which apparently support Ryzen APUs out of the box:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370M-DS3H-rev-1x#kf
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370M-Gaming-3-rev-1x#kf
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nice spot ! those slipped under the radar - specially the Gaming 3, looks like it has Gigabytes newest M.2 heatsinks so doesn't look like they are to old in life design


ED209 said:
I will have a look at them.

thanks a lot.
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if you can, push the Gaming 3 x370 over the DS3H
 
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