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welcome back to tech guys sitting right here on the desk we've got AMD's new Athlon 200 GE processor it's too Zen cause for threads it's locked at 3.2 gigahertz as well but the thing about this CPU is it comes in at a price point of fifty five US dollars or in Australia currently 85 AUD so kind of sits here to take that throne or at least take that spot of the Intel's g45 60 which was a super budget choice back in early 2017 however one thing I will say about the G 45 60 it was released at a time when ddr4 memory prices were pretty cheap and graphics cards like our x4 70s and GTX 1063 gigabyte models were very cheap so you can build yourself a brand new PC that had such good price performance nowadays the ddr4 memory is still pretty expensive but we also have other options here as well like the Rison 320 200 G this includes a bigger cooler it also has a bigger graphics portion of Vega on board which is eight compute units versus three on this so if anything this is sort of like a G 4560 replacement however what need is there in the market you're probably wondering well straight out of the box before we even do any testing we've got 35 watts TDP on this little thing here so if anything it could make for a great office PC CPU but also on that note it could make for a great place holder as well if you want to get on AMD's fantastic motherboard lineup and for that has in my opinion great future proofing in that you can update the BIOS and then step it up to something like even a 7 nanometre in 2019 so after running various tests on the 200 G Vista Verizon 2,200 G first the G 45 60 we're now a conclusion time which is a little bit of a weird one because I knew straight away after at least running the first game what this CPU was going to be about and in my opinion it's about two different things and that is if you're after a low power consumption low noise CPU solution that's actually really good for a budget orientated user then this CPU is definitely gonna be for you the power consumption even when running far cry 5 for example was that 60 watts so that's full load that's the max you can expect out of this thing the other person that this APU would be for would be for someone who's looking for a placeholder until they can get say a 2700 X or a better graphics card because the graphics card performance of this thing in titles like dota 2 and csgo and if that's all you play then this might be perfect for you it was pretty good 1080p was playable on low settings on both these titles and this is the big difference between this CPU and the g45 60 that wasn't playable at 1080p on low settings on either of these games to the point where you have to drop it down to 720p the Athlon 200 GE actually handled these two titles over 60 FPS with decent one and point one percent lows and I could even get some frags in csgo so it was pretty decent of course I'm putting the Rison 2200 G here on the table because I feel like if you're buying this especially for the graphics then definitely spend a little bit extra and go for this you do get a bigger cooler you do get overclock ability and higher memory limits the Athlon 200g is capped at 3.2 gigahertz and even in the BIOS I was trying to change the multiplier around that looked like it locked in I was like damn have I got some secret success that other reviewers haven't got and then when I got into Windows I realized no you locked it 2667 megahertz on the memory but you can change the timings to whatever you want and then on the cpu for both those cause you locked at 3.2 gigahertz which does extend to four threads the included cooler did a phenomenal job of handling this little CPU keep in mind the TDP is very low and the temperatures only went up to 54 degrees with a decibel level of 23 decibels it was super quiet and that noise didn't seem to change at all even if you stepped it down to idle temperatures which went down as low as 33 degrees and the noise stayed the same so listen to me like this fan is just carrying on at one speed if it's not then it is really really quiet but we're not said and done when it comes to the Athlon 200 GE it's a real budget orientated choice that I do feel that if you're just buying it for the 2 cores and 4 threads then honestly it's too late I mean that phase already happened at the start of 2017 with the G 45 60 but if you're getting something that you want for a low power consuming off this PC or if you want something as a placeholder in between now and getting a 2700 X for example and a good graphics card then this is definitely going to be a decent placeholder for the time being but if you're going for the 2 cores and 4 threads on its own with just that graphics on the Vegas 3 graphics with the 3 compute units then this here is a much better choice even for the extra $45 because you're getting 4 cores 4 threads there overclockable and those numbers will not just come through and Cinebench it also come through in games when you're using a better graphics card and then you've also got a bigger cooler as well so everything to go for with the 2200 G and even then if you wanted to go on the intel side of things core i3 8100 as i showed in my previous comparison and i'll put the link up here if you want to check that out and to quickly wrap things up with the Athlon 200g great little office CPU or a placeholder cpu but also I did test out some 4k YouTube videos and this handled it absolutely fine so I'll probably do 4k Netflix as well a little bit disappointed that they've locked down the overclocking on both the CPU cores and the memory but I guess thoughts behind that is they probably want you to couple it with an a320 and also not over exceed this little included cooler here which will get overloaded pretty quickly if you put more heat out of this CPU anyway let me know what you think of the 200 G in the comment section below do you think it's a nice little CPU for the money or do you think it's too little too late love reading your thoughts and opinions as always no catching another check video very soon peace out for now bye but that's about it with the recommendations nice little CPU but I think it's coming in a little bit too late if you're just buying it for the CPU portion if you're buying it for an office PC or a placeholder great little CPU especially for fifty five bucks and that's when we go to get on with it I mean maybe there's some other things amiss so looks to me like this fan is just going in at one speed and that is charleshayne I mean if this isn't shortly wise we'll just give it a little look I know it's new that doesn't matter I've got issues man check this out this is the hospitalist process baby buy it clean it build it flip it that's the techie ass process baby check out a much links in description below