SeekerIntel Pentium Gold G6400
Priced under $70, Intel’s Pentium Gold G6400 fills a low-cost niche among desktop CPUs, outperforming Athlons and costing well less than Core i3 and Ryzen 3 chips. It’s a solid option for a budget productivity PC, if you can stomach the motherboard investment.
-- As reviewed by PCMag
Product details
- 2 Cores / 4 Threads
- Socket Type LGA 1200
- Compatible with Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
- Intel Optane Memory Support
PROS
+ Low cost, and actually available here in early 2021
+ 4GHz clock speed on two cores
+ Supports thread-doubling Hyper-Threading
CONS
- Integrated graphics is the light-hitting UHD Graphics 610
- Inherent cost of LGA1200 platform with a budget CPU
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By PCMag on March 10, 2021
Priced under $70, Intel’s Pentium Gold G6400 fills a low-cost niche among desktop CPUs, outperforming Athlons and costing well less than Core i3 and Ryzen 3 chips. It’s a solid option for a budget productivity PC, if you can stomach the motherboard investment.
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