AMD Rolling Out Two More Sub-$75 Zen + Vega 3 Processors

[Mr.Elendig]

200ge -> mostly fine, specially these days when intel chips often goes for more than msrp. (If intel was selling at msrp, then it would be a much harder sell, specially for gaming)
220ge -> 18% higher price for a 6% clock speed increase. Great value for money /s
240ge -> 36% higher price for 9.4% higher clock. I can't see any valid reason to get this cpu instead of the 2200g

My take on these two new processors; They are aimed at the OEM market who can now brag about higher MHz numbers in their advertisement targeting the less knowledgeable users .

[scns]

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[dungeon]

>35W TDP
The obvious question is: What huge massive cooler beyond overrated could be slammed on this one to run it fanless? I'm open to suggestions. I'm guessing there's some 140W TDP rated ones that would handle 35W just fine without a fan..

I (ab)used a AM1 socket Athlon 2GHz quad-core APU for a HTPC for some years. Fanless (overpowered) PSU, SSD and passive heatsink on the APU. That system couldn't into 4k content so it got outdated. The awesomeness of pressing the power button and only a light indicates if it's on or off since there is no noise is immense and can't be overrated.

Bigger brother Arctic Alpine - cheapest solution i guess

On AM1 246g of aluminium was enough:

https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/alpine-m1-passive.html

For AM4 GE that is 557g

https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/alpine-am4-passive.html

But same price... there are beter solutions based on copper pipes too, but that can't be this cheap

[chimpy]

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[chithanh]

So that is why AMD originally locked the 200GE against overclocking, to upsell the 220GE and 240GE that have slightly higher CPU clocks and nothing else over the 200GE.

At the very least, AMD could have increased the number of GCUs to 4-6. Very disappointing, AMD.