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Just for the chips alone you're probably right, prices vary region to region so you could get it much cheaper a few months down the line. But "platform costs" are cheaper & have been for AMD for a good 1.5~2 decades now, possibly including the LGA 775 era!
A midrange DDR5 kit still costs anywhere from 50-100% more than equivalent DDR4 kit, and there are no A620 motherboards worth buying below $100. Not that with A620 being largely limited to PCIe 3.0 is a good idea to pair with the 8500G, its PCIe bandwidth is so badly gimped that you simply cannot do what you can with this Core i3 - cheap CPU that's "okay" for gaming but will drive any GPU correctly.
Chinese motherboards for socket AM5 are simply disgusting, as you can see here:
My primary bone with the 8500G is its exceptionally high price for what's on tap. Factor in that you're spending at least $130 US on a motherboard - generally, $170ish for a basic B650 micro-ATX from a reputable brand that will support at a minimum, a 4.0 graphics slot that will counterbalance the x4 link width restriction a little... and I just see no reason whatsoever why anyone building a gaming PC on a budget should choose an 8500G over the i3-14100(F), 13100 or even 12100 (since they`re the same CPU anyway).
The 12100F can be found exceptionally cheap already ($60 on AliExpress - since we're talking very low budget chips, this kind of marketplace search is acceptable IMO)
AMD could perhaps even have gotten away with $160 for that thing if they released it alongside an AM1 successor and heavily marketed it towards the same niche (budget desktop, home server, IoT controller), given its iGPU - it might be the latest RDNA 3 revision, but it's Vega levels of suck when it comes to performance - it's just not adequate for socket AM5 IMHO. The argument that you can upgrade to a Raphael or Granite Ridge CPU in the future, while valid, is very hard to justify in this specific segment, since the 7500F, 7600 are vastly superior choices which do not share this chip's limitations.
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