AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz

A reasonable CPU if you're on a strict budget but its held back by its low L3 cache allocation. Spending a little more money will get you much more bang for your buck.SPECIFICATIONSFrequency 3.2GHz (3.4GHz Precision Boost, 50MHz XFR)Core architecture...

Sometimes you don't have to be the absolute best to be a winnerIn a nutshell, Ryzen 5's main advantage over Intel's Core i5 range is the higher number of cores and threads it offers while sharing the same price bracket. That's not unlike what AMD offers...

AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Value with AMD's 169 USD four-core proc.It is quad-core time with the Ryzen 5 1400 (without that X). The Ruzen 5 1400 will be tested and overclocked to see how much value you can squeeze out of this four-core and and eight-threaded...

The AMD Ryzen 5 1400 currently retails for $170. Beats Intel Core i5-7400 and Core i3 parts in multi-threaded apps Features SMT/HTT (which competing Intel Core i5 quad-core chips lack) Single-thread performance improved over previous generation...

The Ryzen 5 lineup has put an end to Intel's Core i5 lineup because you now have the option of getting either a 6C/12T or 4C/8T processor while the Core i5 lineup is all 4C/4T. Multi-threaded performance will be significantly better with any Ryzen 5...

The Ryzen 5 1400 and 1600 are the cheaper alternatives in AMD's lineup geared towards the tinkerers who love to push their components to the...

If you want a quad core CPU then we think that the Ryzen 5 1400, whilst good, just hasn't got quite the same performance as the 1500X, thus they it won our Approved and the 1500X ended up with our Gamers Choice Award and this is the one out of the three we would recommend for most people considering the small amount extra it costs over the 1400 and the performance you can get compared to the 1600X in most games.

Ryzen 5 bring AMD back into the game as they deliver high-performance multi-threaded computing at prices that will be a major disruption to the competition.