Expert reviews

• 03/10/2021

  Summary

  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 inve...

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  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