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Best desktop CPU for sub £80

corsamel

corsamel

corsamel

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Hey all,

Whats everyone's opinions on the best desktop usage AMD CPU - no real game play, just internet, work use etc. Looking for the most stable but the fastest for less than £80 ish.

I had the AMD A8 7650K Black Edition on the fm2+ skt but they seem to be going out of fashion now.

Cheers guys
 
corsamel said:
Hey all,

Whats everyone's opinions on the best desktop usage AMD CPU - no real game play, just internet, work use etc. Looking for the most stable but the fastest for less than £80 ish.

I had the AMD A8 7650K Black Edition on the fm2+ skt but they seem to be going out of fashion now.

Cheers guys
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Do you need APU or CPU? Do you need to keep your current ram, board etc?
If so APU upgrade is the A10 7890K and you will only gain 14-16% more perf.
For CPU the FX-8350 but you need dedicated GPU.

Otherwise you would need upgrade from scratch so you need to set aside £400 for a AMD Ryzen APU, good RAM and motherboard.
 
I prefer to not have to get a graphics card so an APU ideally
I don't mind going for everything new, basically something like my old A8 but the latest model? Ryzen perhaps?

Bare in mind I just want my office use applications to load as quick as possible so no need for any gaming spec processor.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £239.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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You can spend another £10-15 on 3000Mhz RAM if you want, but pointless if you are using it for Web/Word Processing/YouTube etc. Mind you OCUK are not really very competitive on price on this sort of gear, due to the fact they target higher margin parts/clients.
 
corsamel said:
Excellent, cheers for that. Will that 2200G give much speed increase over an A8 on a FM2?
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Well, I forgot to ask if you were running an SSD drive, and a nice clean install of your Operating System, which incidentally Ryzen only supports Windows 10, so if you are on 7 then you'll need to upgrade.

Over all the system should be much faster, but if the above conditions have been met maybe not as much as you would think for just general office work.
 
I have an SSD and will do a fresh install of W10. Not looking at spending too much as its no gaming rig, its hard to understand what CPU is best suited to plain desktop use instead of game or video editing etc.
I want my Excel spreadsheet to open in 1 second instead of 4 seconds :)
 
corsamel said:
I have an SSD and will do a fresh install of W10. Not looking at spending too much as its no gaming rig, its hard to understand what CPU is best suited to plain desktop use instead of game or video editing etc.
I want my Excel spreadsheet to open in 1 second instead of 4 seconds :)
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Well I am sure you'll see a decent boost these are quad core CPU's, and tie that in with a clean install of Windows on your SSD. I can't see you being unhappy, but that 4 seconds, might only be 2.5 seconds. :)
 
corsamel said:
I have an SSD and will do a fresh install of W10. Not looking at spending too much as its no gaming rig, its hard to understand what CPU is best suited to plain desktop use instead of game or video editing etc.
I want my Excel spreadsheet to open in 1 second instead of 4 seconds :)
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I don't know if or by how much your Excel performance will be improved, i think it depends on how big it is for the CPU to notice and need to to compile it, all i know is this, the 2200G is the best CPU for its money and its a lot faster than your old FM2 CPU, really a lot.
The SSD will also help with reading the data off the disk, if you don't already have an SSD, you're still using a mechanical drive? you will see a huge difference in how fast all your programs that are installed on it open.

I don't know if an SSD alone will give you the Excel performance you are looking for, it may, but if your Excel's are big enough for the CPU to need to work at them the 2200G is much faster.
 
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I've wondered what exactly will boost the loading of Excel (for example)

I currently have a SSD and 8gb. I'm thinking to get a desktop program loading quick its a combination of CPU, Ram and SSD?

This 2200G sounds great though, think i'll give it a try
 
corsamel said:
I've wondered what exactly will boost the loading of Excel (for example)

I currently have a SSD and 8gb. I'm thinking to get a desktop program loading quick its a combination of CPU, Ram and SSD?

This 2200G sounds great though, think i'll give it a try
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That is correct.

Not enough Ram can lead to page filing (caching to disk) which slows things down, TBH i don't think you will have that problem with 8GB, so long as you don't run a lot of applications all at the same time it should be fine.
 
Panos said:
If you plan to fully utilise your system you should consider this ram and overclock to 3200C14.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...l-channel-kit-black-grey-tlgd4-my-09r-tg.html
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Unless gaming then most end users won't notice any difference between some reasonable timings 3000MHz DDR4 and anything faster - while going from some average 2400MHz modules to 3200MHz can be more than a 10% performance difference especially in gaming in productivity tasks the difference between some reasonable timing 3000MHz and 3200MHz is mostly <1%.
 
Rroff said:
Unless gaming then most end users won't notice any difference between some reasonably timings 3000MHz DDR4 and anything faster - while going from some average 2400MHz modules to 3200MHz can be more than a 10% performance difference especially in gaming in productivity tasks the difference between some reasonable timing 3000MHz and 3200MHz is mostly <1%.
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This is true.
 
exactly, that's why I have never really bothered with looking into the ram, I didn't think it would make much difference. Perhaps a faster SSD too? but I can't see that making much noticeable difference either.

Is the 2200G the cheapest APU option? :)
 
corsamel said:
exactly, that's why I have never really bothered with looking into the ram, I didn't think it would make much difference. Perhaps a faster SSD too? but I can't see that making much noticeable difference either.

Is the 2200G the cheapest APU option? :)
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SSDs are SSDs, i don't know what yours is, maybe its a really early one but SSDs are generally all about the same, capped by the 6Gb/s interface (600MB/s) and around 80K IOps.

The step up from SSDs is NVMe drives, they vary hugely in performance, anything upto about 5x as fast as SSDs, but they can also get quite expensive.

Unless your existing SSD is really old and slow i wouldn't bother, what brand and model is it? a quick google can tell me if you can improve it at a reasonable cost.
 
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