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Today we’re taking a look back at the AMD Ryzen 3 1200. This excellent budget gaming processor got released twice, in 2017 and 2020. But why was this, and should you buy one in 2023?
0:00 History of the AMD Ryzen 3 1200
1:47 How it compares to modern CPUs…
2:09 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
2:47 Cyberpunk 2077
3:59 Battlefield 2042
4:46 Dead Space Remake
5:53 Hogwarts Legacy
6:59 Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
7:28 Elden Ring
8:23 The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Next-Gen
8:52 CS:GO
9:36 GTA V
10:12 Red Dead Redemption 2
Thanks for watching 🙂
I’d love to see a modern video on the 5675. It’s a overclocking beast and when I upgraded to a 5600x. The 5600x was exactly double the speed of my 4.8 ghz 5675
i remember building my first SFF PC around my ryzen 3 1200 with a 1060 6 gb in 2017. seems like forever ago cause i’ve built a handful of PCs since then.
My first build used a 1200. I’ve since upgraded to a 5600X, and the 1200 has been handed down to my sister.
This was my main rig CPU back in 2017, after my previous power supply nearly completely destroyed my previous build. That dead power supply killed all my old components except for the ram.
At the time of it’s re-release the 1600AF was a thing and way better of a buy. But honestly even the 1600AF was still only good as an entryway to AM4, the single core speed is still decent for PS4 era games but nowadays with used 5600 pricing it’s REALLY difficult to justify going for any lower end CPU if you have an AM4 mobo.
I still have two R3-1200 chips. I use one of them mostly for updating AM4 motherboard BIOSs brought to me by customers. The other one is inside a “pizza box” style desktop case along with a Radeon 550 2GB, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB OEM WD SSD, running Linux quite cheerfully.
Ryzen is the only reason Intel didn’t continue their 4/8 core for 500+ dollar pattern
love the vid really appreciate your content because personally speaking PC gaming as a hobby been quite the interesting ride for me.
First real introduction I had with the PC master race was with a laptop that has an igpu that just about allowed me to play assassin’s creed 3 on low settings 900p before that I only played flash games. then I was able to obtain an acer laptop with a 7th gen i5 and gtx1050. It is still around but now mostly just used as a portable solution. Didn’t feel the need to upgrade anytime soon but then wanted better ergonomics so went and built a desktop with a ryzen 5600g. Man was 2020 wild because I wasn’t able to get a GPU for the price I want with the performance I expect. Then saw a 6600XT for sale which was miracle ngl. Fast forward to the Crypto crash and I got me a 3070 and man does ray tracing look good when it works. Right now don’t see the need to upgrade and is waiting for the hopefully better priced RTX 50XX GPU (that might ultimately not fit my current case =(. Like for real they need to make more efficient cards!).
Hardware Unboxed has been doing videos on Nvidia VS AMD driver overhead on the CPU.
If you paired that processor with Radeon RX 6600 or maybe even a little higher it should play those games better. Maybe even the Radeon 5600 XT would yield better results
I would say 6500 but that system wouldn’t have PCIE 4.0 x4 so you’d be bandwidth limited
Meanwhile I’m still rocking a 4.8 Ghz 4790k from 2014 paired with a 5700xt. Still get 60+ fps at 1440p in most games maxed out. Of course it wasn’t a budget CPU when I bought it, though they’re cheap these Days. I usually sell parts to help pay for an upgrade but I’m never getting rid of this PC- I love this thing way too much!
I love your videos, another nice one!
I’m still using Ryzen 5 1600 + 1060 6 GB combo 😃
Will be good to see Ryzen 5 1400 and 1600 reviews too.
This is actuallya good ultra budget CPU on the second hand market. You can find it with cooler included for less than 30 euros and the socket is far from a dead socket like all the other options are. The Ryzen 5 1600 ocasionally is cheaper and a better deal over all, but not as often
1:23 This is probably one of the only Ryzens I never bought… it just never made any sense for me to buy it when the 2200G came with the VEGA integrated GPU… today used Ryzens just don’t really stack up when you could get a new Ryzen 5 4500 for £75 or a used 2700X for the same price. Maybe a 3100 but the 1400 and 1600 although still capable it just doesn’t seem worth it for the saving of like 25 quid or so.
i had one as a holdover until the zen2 launched, and it’s been in a number of builds since then. without lots of OC work, it’s not really suitable for a gaming build. it has lots of OC potential in both ram and core, but even maxed out it’s not a great gaming CPU. i ran int CPU limits in far cry 5 for example, despite using a 980ti at 1440p at the time. but considering i paid 60 bucks for it in december 2018 it did very well. the next time i find a good deal on a cheap am4 board it’s gonna be used in a media PC i think.
AMD’s integrated GPUs have basically allowed me to play even basic games these last 12 years. First the Llano A3850 (worked for 8 years), now my 3200G. With the current hellscape of high GPU prices I still think an AMD IGPU is the way to go.
The 1200 AE was actually my first AMD-cpu build – prior to that I only had intel-cpus (first one being a 386-system, from way back when…).
I had the 1200AE paired with a B450 Board, RX570 GFX and 16 GB 2400 DDR4 ram. A dirt cheap build that worked well enough for about 3-4 years.
Still using the ram and mobo, but upgraded the cpu to a R5 5500 and RX 6600 last year. Again dirt cheap parts but I’m not complaining about the performance.
First generation Ryzen wasn’t fantastic looking back on it. Single core performance roughly in-between Haswell and Skylake (Both of which released earlier)
2nd generation onwards was pretty cool though
i loved my 1200 but after a while felt it a bit lacking so i upgraded to one of its big brothers the 4100 lol
Ryzen 3 was close to the i3 for a reason, I never experienced this with the i5 6600k OC to 4.8ghz…Cyberpunk runned ok at 1080p and could push over 60fps
I used a Ryzen 3 1300x for several years with a R9 270x and it played everything reasonably well back in the day.
I feel the Ryzen 5 1600AE/AF is also deserving of a second look, as it somewhat adresses the 1200’s poor multicore performance while not being that much more expensive in the used market
I had once bought a R3 1200 from a guy, who was selling his old pc parts untested with some bent pins in very low price (around 10 pounds). I fixed the bent pins and it works perfectly, using it to have some fun on overclocking and testing different things until I was moving home and put it aside. Maybe I would use it to build a living room entertainment PC based on it, pairing it with my old GTX 1050 ti.
Really good to see all these titles included in the performance testing lately, good stuff for sure
I’d like to see how the Ryzen 5 1400 performs these days, I had one of those back in the day and it was a pretty decent chip, maybe the hyperthreading would help it perform quite a lot better in cpu intensive titles?
this was my first multi core chip. great memories. was a huge boost from a 2 core pentium chip i had lol. i had this thing paired with a 1050ti. though now i own a intel chip i intend to go back to ryzen as it just suits my needs more. thanks for the great video. cheers!
it would be interesting to try a higher resolution to see if it helps the bottleneck
I used this as my first ryzen cpu in late 2017 i was on a very tight budget after selling my fx 4300 system and i have to say it served me well cause my gpu was a 1050 ti back then so it wasnt much of a bottleneck and i used it 2-3 year before upgrading to ryzen 5 6 core 12 thread
1200 is a special CPU to me. Got me to 60fps pretty much locked in Dark Souls 3. Coming from 860k on FM2, Ryzen was godsent. Left in the dust now but I’ll never forget.