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The fact is I didn't need the 5600G. My HTPC spends most of its life just playing video. 4k Youtube, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video were no sweat for the little 4 Core 2200G! But the Thanksgiving weekend sales on many of the AMD 5000 series processors was too good to pass! I mean $139.99 CAD (apx $100 USD) for this CPU is just insane. This is like glory day pricing on the 2200G or 3200G and those were Ryzen 3 class parts NOT Ryzen 5! This CPU will never be this cheap again. Mark my words once supply starts to dry up the price is only going to go up. You can't even get a Ryzen 3 3400G for less than $300 now. Getting a Ryzen 5 for less than half that is nuts! So I bought the CPU. Now what? Well, I need to update the BIOS on my older B450 motherboard. I had to update it in several steps as I was so far behind and hadn't realized it. But once I got it up to date it's literally a matter of swapping the chip and going.

I have to say I went in knowing that the 5600G was a MUCH more powerful CPU. But I wasn't convinced its Vega based Radeon Graphics would be THAT much faster than the old 2200G. Well, turns out I was wrong. Tomb Raider 2013 saw a fairly big performance bump. Granted it's only one game. But an older game that shouldn't have been CPU bound on the quad core part. That difference in performance is definitely more than I expected to see so that's great.