Mo Facta
Epic Member
Must admit I'm slightly annoyed.
I build a few PCs a year for people I know, usually friends, or friends of friends. I almost always order from Rebel Tech and I use Game Debate (www.game-debate.com - in my opinion the best hardware comparison site out there) to compare hardware specs and make purchasing decisions.
On Rebel Tech's site they list the 2200G as having four cores and eight threads. "WOW!", I thought. "For R1570?!" Fantastic, let's get it cuz my brother's friend gave me a R10k budget to build him an entry level gaming PC and the budge is tight.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz (Turbo 3.7GHz) 4 Cores (8 Threads) 6MB (L2...
I check Game Debate - same thing. Four cores, eight threads. I do some comparisons to other processors (came up 13% proportionally worse in performance than my i7-3770) and think, excellent, great entry level processor for gaming.
http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?pid=2523&cpu=Ryzen 3 2200G
I place the order.
Then, like I probably should have done in the first place, I checked AMD's site. Four cores, four threads. Not a huge train smash, but that means it totally skewed the comparison calculations. However the processor did get good reviews with the Vega 8 on-chip GPU and it seems to handle most games pretty well without a discrete GPU. I paired it with the Asus PRIME B350 PLUS mobo, Ballistix 8GB DDR4-2666 and an Asus RX 550 2GB DDR5 so it should be fine at 1080p and with games at various settings.
Just a little bummed the info was wrong, which influenced my purchase. You live and learn, eh? Check the manufacturer's site first, kids!
Cheers
I build a few PCs a year for people I know, usually friends, or friends of friends. I almost always order from Rebel Tech and I use Game Debate (www.game-debate.com - in my opinion the best hardware comparison site out there) to compare hardware specs and make purchasing decisions.
On Rebel Tech's site they list the 2200G as having four cores and eight threads. "WOW!", I thought. "For R1570?!" Fantastic, let's get it cuz my brother's friend gave me a R10k budget to build him an entry level gaming PC and the budge is tight.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz (Turbo 3.7GHz) 4 Cores (8 Threads) 6MB (L2...
I check Game Debate - same thing. Four cores, eight threads. I do some comparisons to other processors (came up 13% proportionally worse in performance than my i7-3770) and think, excellent, great entry level processor for gaming.
http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?pid=2523&cpu=Ryzen 3 2200G
I place the order.
Then, like I probably should have done in the first place, I checked AMD's site. Four cores, four threads. Not a huge train smash, but that means it totally skewed the comparison calculations. However the processor did get good reviews with the Vega 8 on-chip GPU and it seems to handle most games pretty well without a discrete GPU. I paired it with the Asus PRIME B350 PLUS mobo, Ballistix 8GB DDR4-2666 and an Asus RX 550 2GB DDR5 so it should be fine at 1080p and with games at various settings.
Just a little bummed the info was wrong, which influenced my purchase. You live and learn, eh? Check the manufacturer's site first, kids!
Cheers
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