Best desktop CPU for sub £80

[Rroff]

I'd be tempted to spend the money on bigger rather than faster for your kind of use and/or for an additional drive for backup purposes if you don't already have some kind of backup system.

It is hard to beat the Ryzen 2200/2400G at what they do currently at your kind of budget the other option would be to go to a 2600 bundle but that only makes sense if you are doing heavy productivity tasks like audio processing.

 

[corsamel]

I have a SanDisk SDSSDA240G

Is a 2200 the cheapest APU model in that Ryzen range?

 

[humbug]

I have a SanDisk SDSSDA240G

Is a 2200 the cheapest APU model in that Ryzen range?

Thats not a bad SSD, there is faster but not much, not enough to notice.

The Ryzen 1200 is the cheapest Ryzen CPU but it has no integrated GPU, so you will need a separate GPU.

Its essentially the same as the 2200G but without that integrated GPU.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3a6-am.html

 

[Lokken86]

Thats not a bad SSD, there is faster but not much, not enough to notice.

The Ryzen 1200 is the cheapest Ryzen CPU but it has no integrated GPU, so you will need a separate GPU.

Its essentially the same as the 2200G but without that integrated GPU.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3a6-am.html

It's actually a bit faster than the 1200 because they are Pinnacle Ridge.

 

[Beren]

I have a SanDisk SDSSDA240G

Is a 2200 the cheapest APU model in that Ryzen range?

Yes, the 2200g is the cheapest. The other option is the 2400g.

They are both quad cores, the 2400g has 8 threads, which might make a difference in the future.

 

[humbug]

It's actually a bit faster than the 1200 because they are Pinnacle Ridge.

Oh, of course, thanks

 

[Poneros]

Actually, you can get the Athlon 200GE for £47, it's 2c/4t but more than good enough for your use case.

 

[humbug]

Actually, you can get the Athlon 200GE for £47, it's 2c/4t but more than good enough for your use case.

Those are Zen cores, i forgot about the 200GE, it only has half the cores tho.

 

[Lokken86]

The 200GE is similar to the 2000U in my laptop but with higher boost speed. Honestly for browsing and stuff it's really good. As long as there is a half decent SSD in there it feels the same as any £1000 CPU. The Ryzen3 IGPU isn't up to much games past CS:GO mind.

 

[Rroff]

The 200GE is similar to the 2000U in my laptop but with higher boost speed. Honestly for browsing and stuff it's really good. As long as there is a half decent SSD in there it feels the same as any £1000 CPU.

For general desktop stuff not much really feels "slow" these days - I use my GPD Pocket (Atom Z8750 with a couple of performance enhancements so it holds its boost) hooked upto a mouse, keyboard and monitor a fair bit and until you start opening some heavy weight packages you wouldn't know the difference from a desktop i7, etc.

 

[Lokken86]

For general desktop stuff not much really feels "slow" these days - I use my GPD Pocket (Atom Z8750 with a couple of performance enhancements so it holds its boost) hooked upto a mouse, keyboard and monitor a fair bit and until you start opening some heavy weight packages you wouldn't know the difference from a desktop i7, etc.

Huh thats quite surprising. Surely it can't be far from my a4 4000 and that was pretty slow most of the time.
This Ryzen3 laptop definitely has that snappy feel and It makes my old one with i5 6200u feel horrible, but I put it down to not having an SSD.

 

[Rroff]

Huh thats quite surprising. Surely it can't be far from my a4 4000 and that was pretty slow most of the time.
This Ryzen3 laptop definitely has that snappy feel and It makes my old one with i5 6200u feel horrible, but I put it down to not having an SSD.

I do try to keep my OS pretty minimal mind - which is a losing battle with Windows 10 Windows 10 especially with a lot of background stuff can really hit those slower CPUs at times making them sluggish if you don't stop some processes.

For general browsing, music, etc. don't really notice it being sluggish at all though you do notice when using any productivity stuff - opening Visual Studio for instance is pretty much instant on my Desktop but gets the blue loading circle for 10 seconds or so on the tablet.

 

[pallys]

I don't think you need to upgrade, you just need a ssd.

 

[4K8KW10]

I don't think you need to upgrade, you just need a ssd.

You are right, his AMD A8 7650K Black Edition is faster than the processor in your signature, actually according to the PassMark points, this A8 7650K scores as many points as an i7 920.

 

[Avalon]

I don't think you need to upgrade, you just need a ssd.

He already has an SSD, a not awful one for that matter. To suggest an upgrade that will improve the op's criteria, some points of reference would really help - I can't see your average excel user seeing a massive reduction in load time going from an AHCI based SSD on a reasonable CPU without major expense (read new board/CPU/RAM/NVMe just to shave a few seconds off a load time).

Op - How long are we taking here? If this is your main criteria it's not going to get a lot better unless the spreadsheet is huge.

 

[ExoMale]

The ryzen 2200g is a proper 4 core quad where as if I remember correctly, the 4 core A6/A8/A10 are not true quads, so that are not as strong performers, mean I had an Athlon 860k which is an A10 7850k or higher version without graphics and for me was fine, but it wasn’t a true quad at the end of the day.

So I’d echo above and go the ryzen route otherwise if you still have the drr3 system then grab an A10, wouldn’t buy new though if you find any, they be overpriced given outdated status.


Saying that, do you have a system still or are you looking to buy one again? Only ask because it’s all well and good suggesting ryzen, but if you need everything else then you’ll have to factor that in to whatever budget you have.