Tuesday, July 13th 2021
Prebuilts with AMD 4700S Desktop Kits Sell for $600 in India
Indian PC components retailer PrimeABGB started listing pre-built desktops based on the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit, a PC motherboard based on harvested PlayStation 5 SoCs with their iGPUs disabled. These are semi-custom SoCs originally bound for Sony, which didn't make the cut, as their iGPUs were found defective.
It appears like the desktop PrimeABGB is selling for the equivalent of $600, is integrated in-house by the retailer, and the other parts that make up the build are certainly of a comparable quality to the ones large OEMs cram in their $600 desktops. These include a SilverStone Sugo 13 Mesh case, an Antec Atom 450 W PSU, a 120 GB SATA 6 Gbps SSD, and a GeForce GT 710 handling graphics on par with basic iGPU solutions. What you're getting, though, is an 8-core/8-thread "Zen 2" CPU that's highly capable for productivity tasks, and hardwired 16 GB memory.
It appears like the desktop PrimeABGB is selling for the equivalent of $600, is integrated in-house by the retailer, and the other parts that make up the build are certainly of a comparable quality to the ones large OEMs cram in their $600 desktops. These include a SilverStone Sugo 13 Mesh case, an Antec Atom 450 W PSU, a 120 GB SATA 6 Gbps SSD, and a GeForce GT 710 handling graphics on par with basic iGPU solutions. What you're getting, though, is an 8-core/8-thread "Zen 2" CPU that's highly capable for productivity tasks, and hardwired 16 GB memory.
43 Comments on Prebuilts with AMD 4700S Desktop Kits Sell for $600 in India
Dear lord.
Keplernope Fermi :wtf:Considering that someone could be buying an Intel Atom based mini PC with Intel integrated pathetic Atom graphics at not much cheaper than this, it's not a bad option. It's Kepler, not Fermi. Nvidia made a mess (and tech press kept it's mouth shut) with GT 730. There you could have 3 TOTALLY different versions with either Kepler or Fermi GPU, 64bit or 128bit data bus, DDR3 or DDR5 memory. A total mess. Someone could end up with a somewhat OK gaming card and another with a useless piece of ***BEEP***.
On the other hand GT 710 was ONLY Kepler with two versions. A pathetic GT 710 DDR3 and a somewhat OK DDR5 version.
Just as an indication, the GT 710 version I have with DDR3 scored at the latest FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Benchmark with 1280x720 Standard (Laptop) settings 3226 points. An almost ancient HD 5670, thanks to it's better bandwidth, scored 5096 points.
Heck looking it up a "gaming machine" seems to still be officially a machine made for gambling like a slot machine....
I wonder where are the GDDR5 versions in Techpowerup's database. It only shows DDR3....
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-gt-710-silent-2-gb.b8230
@W1zzard While an old almost forgotten low end model, someone could have a look at that. Why when searching in the database it does not show that GDDR5 model.
Because