expiredDealiusCaesar | Staff posted Nov 10, 2022 05:36 PM
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expiredDealiusCaesar | Staff posted Nov 10, 2022 05:36 PM
AMD Ryzen 5 4500 CPU & ASUS Prime B450M-A II Motherboard Bundle $159 + Free Shipping
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One other thing to bear in mind .. and maybe wiser heads can weigh on this than me.. as I found out the hard way some motherboards simply do not support the amd ryzen 5 CPU's right out of the box .. what's worse , unless the motherboard has say usb easy flash bios to let you get around this, without a older (say ryzen 3 series processor ) to plug in there such that you can update the bios you're stuck.. it is possible for amd to send you a loaner processor in this situation
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100
but they will require correspondence from the motherboard manufacturer saying " Hey we can't help if your CPU isn't supported sorry" .. which I imagine shouldn't be too difficult if you just tell the rep you're chatting with online what you need and ask them to send you an email transcript of the conversation.. once you have that amd will require a picture of the cpu itself (which was really hard for me since that processor is so shiny it's hard to get a good picture of the serial number on it even with the flash on my cell phone camera turned off ) and the cpu invoice ... they mail you the loaner cpu and thermal paste for free to get the MB up and running , you have 10 business days from when you receive it to mail it back to amd and they pay for the return shipping..
So I would also snag a tube of say arctic mx4 thermal paste so you can reapply, clean off and then reapply thermal paste as necessary.
You might look at the amazon reviews like I did and say " Oh a bunch of people didn't have any problems with the ryzen 5 processor so I'll try my luck" and you can feel free to do so .. all I can tell you is my experience absolutely sucked
see also
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comm...ards_wit
also worth noting if you do go for a board with usb easy bios flash you should have a usb 2.0 (strangely enough not usb 3.0) thumb drive no bigger than 32 GB formatted with FAT32 .for best results.. instructions on how to do it vary from MB to MB model and are detailed in the MB's instruction manual
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In US, it was for OEM only.
But in other markets, like China, Taiwan and few others,
an avg Joe can just walk into a store and buy one.
Edit: Boards have gone up a bit in price(+$10), but this is a really mediocre processor...
Good luck!
Jon
Edit: Boards have gone up a bit in price(+$10), but this is a really mediocre processor...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...48cc8
Spend 15$ more for much better performance. Although the 5600 is better still, if your really pinching pennys this is the way to go.
If I'm gonna go ryzen, I'm gonna get a nice B550 or X570 board, 5600x or 5800x and motherboard combo will cost at least 400$. So that's the reality. So to get something close to that for half of that, your not getting half the performance of a 5800x and ASUS tuff gaming motherboard for example for half the price. But if you want those extra features and extra speed you gotta pay to play
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One other thing to bear in mind .. and maybe wiser heads can weigh on this than me.. as I found out the hard way some motherboards simply do not support the amd ryzen 5 CPU's right out of the box .. what's worse , unless the motherboard has say usb easy flash bios to let you get around this, without a older (say ryzen 3 series processor ) to plug in there such that you can update the bios you're stuck.. it is possible for amd to send you a loaner processor in this situation
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100
but they will require correspondence from the motherboard manufacturer saying " Hey we can't help if your CPU isn't supported sorry" .. which I imagine shouldn't be too difficult if you just tell the rep you're chatting with online what you need and ask them to send you an email transcript of the conversation.. once you have that amd will require a picture of the cpu itself (which was really hard for me since that processor is so shiny it's hard to get a good picture of the serial number on it even with the flash on my cell phone camera turned off ) and the cpu invoice ... they mail you the loaner cpu and thermal paste for free to get the MB up and running , you have 10 business days from when you receive it to mail it back to amd and they pay for the return shipping..
So I would also snag a tube of say arctic mx4 thermal paste so you can reapply, clean off and then reapply thermal paste as necessary.
You might look at the amazon reviews like I did and say " Oh a bunch of people didn't have any problems with the ryzen 5 processor so I'll try my luck" and you can feel free to do so .. all I can tell you is my experience absolutely sucked
see also
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comm...ards_wit
also worth noting if you do go for a board with usb easy bios flash you should have a usb 2.0 (strangely enough not usb 3.0) thumb drive no bigger than 32 GB formatted with FAT32 .for best results.. instructions on how to do it vary from MB to MB model and are detailed in the MB's instruction manual
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