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Review on πŸ’» Unlocked Desktop Processor with Radeon RX Graphics: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G - 4 Cores, 8 Threads by Wiktor Witold Skow ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Just super, the product is made wonderfully, very satisfied.

In a compact Silverstone Milo 09B case, I assembled a very peppy PC for Internet, work, multimedia and play a little before going to bed at the TV in the bedroom. The result is very pleasing: the computer turned out to be almost silent and all my requests in terms of games and films drag with a bang. It should be noted that when assembling without a discrete video card, it is very desirable to install two 8GB DDR4-2933 sticks or higher, then the result will be quite good. Drive NVME 256Gb + HDD 2Tb for file storage. Only low-profile discrete video cards can be inserted into this case, therefore, until such small video cards of at least 1660s level appear in nature, you can safely sit on the built-in. And the current low-profile ones, up to 1650, I do not consider it appropriate to use here (specifically in this case) with such a good built-in video core. Summary. Do you need a small, but very peppy and nimble computer? This stone is almost perfect for such purposes: my other (main) computer is also assembled in a compact case, based on the i5-8600. In terms of graphics, the Intel plug-in was not even close to Ryzen's Vega11, and, of course, the computer with the i5 has a discrete (GTX 1660Ti). That is, for more or less decent graphics, how many tugriks do you need? Only stone and vidyaha will stand at 35k, at least. Taking into account the rest, the price for the entire system unit will exceed 50k. A PC on the Ryzen 5 3400G cost me the whole 30k, with a comparable level of performance. And yes, for all 15 years of communication with PCs and laptops, I sat only on Intel, it just so happened. It was for myself that I made an assembly based on AMD for the first time, and I am very pleased with the result, although, I repeat, I expected a little more from this processor.

Pros
  • - Fast multimedia and quite gaming processor. - 4 cores 8 threads at 3.7-4.2 GHz, very good for their 8600r. - Small heating. With the usual Zalman CNPS 7000 Al-Cu PWM and MX-4 thermal grease, it shows + 35C . + 37C in idle time, no more than + 45C in the Internet and office applications, and did not observe more than + 60C under loads. - Of course, the integrated video core Vega11. Finally, the built-in has reached at least the minimum gaming level up to FullHD inclusive, and viewing high-quality video in 4K without a single hint of brakes. It's five! - Only 10% -12% (on average) inferior in performance to the i5-8600, on which I have assembled the main computer, but the price tag is half as much, which is very impressive.
Cons
  • - Zen + architecture, not Zen2, as on the older R5 3000 series. As a result, only a slightly improved R5 2400G, with a rather tangible difference in price with the latter. - Too big a gap with the R5 3600, both in terms of architecture, and in terms of the total amount of cache and overall performance. At least, not 4 cores / 8 threads, but 6/12, and a level 3 cache of at least 9MB, not 4, then there would be a very strong middle peasant!