Question What cpu for x470?

[digiram]

Hey fellas. I know, dum question. However, I’m still using old sandy bridge cpu right now. Im looking at grabbing an x470 board from a friend. What’s the best bang for buck amd cpu for it?

 

[Magic Carpet]

I am more excited about the 5600G. I don't know what it is with integrated graphics, I definitely have a thing for them. Going back to when companies like SiS, ATI, S3, and nVidia were putting them on boards in the early part of the century.

AMD 785G (2009) and 880G (2010) based mobos had integrated chipset graphics. I thought it was cool to pair ANY processor with it, regardless of the G suffix as it is today. Only Z68 (2011) chipset and above allowed you to have both: “onboard/on-die” graphics and overclocking on the Intel platform, the P series did not. That was a massive advantage AMD had over Intel in the early days of Sandy Bridge.

The problem with Sandy Bridge was simple: if you wanted to use Intel's integrated graphics, you had to buy a motherboard based on an H-series chipset. Unfortunately, Intel's H-series chipsets don't let you overclock the CPU or memory—only the integrated GPU. If you want to overclock the CPU and/or memory, you need a P-series chipset—which doesn't support Sandy Bridge's on-die GPU. Intel effectively forced overclockers to buy discrete GPUs from AMD or NVIDIA, even if they didn't need the added GPU power.

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That, and the AMD boards packed with features were considerably cheaper Intel’s offerings 👆🏻

 

[PingSpike]

AMD 785G (2009) and 880G (2010) based mobos had integrated chipset graphics. I thought it was cool to pair ANY processor with it, regardless of the G suffix as it is today. Only Z68 (2011) chipset and above allowed you to have both: “onboard/on-die” graphics and overclocking on the Intel platform, the P series did not. That was a massive advantage AMD had over Intel in the early days of Sandy Bridge.

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That, and the AMD boards packed with features were considerably cheaper Intel’s offerings 👆🏻

I've actually been wondering lately if a return to chipset iGPUs would make some amount of sense, particularly for AMD as a way to sort of counter some of Intel's advantages. There's still a handful of motherboards with things like the aspeed basic vga controllers added on. Those are basically discrete though since I think they have their own little block of vram.