Reviewers Liked
- More cores than most budget CPUs
- Supports inexpensive chipsets
- Beats anything Intel has at the same price points
- Low power consumption
- Benefits from the excellent AM4 platform
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Lagging benchmark scores
- No SMT
- Moderate overclocking
- Lack of iGPU compared to Intel competitors may limit some possible applications or troubleshooting approaches
- Less attractive than the 1200 considering it costs $20 more and only overclocks another 100MHz