The 200GE, 220GE and 240GE are all basically the same chip with just 100 MHz difference between each of them. I'd stick to one of them if you can find it. The 3000G PROBABLY will work...but it does depend upon the BIOS having been updated to support Zen+ properly, whereas the 2xxGE's are Zen so DEFINITELY work in a A320 board. If you know that the BIOS had a version released and installed that added support for the 3000G, then yeah, it is slightly superior to the 2xx series, and I'd definitely go for it if it's in the same price range.

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Unfortunately, they too are inaccessible

Oh wow. That sucks then.

The A320M-A Pro Max supports a lot of CPUs:
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/suppo...AX#support-cpu

Given the newest available BIOS for it is less than 2 months old, I'd be surprised to find the 3000G is not supported by it.

Did you already buy the A320M-A PRO MAX? If not, maybe you could get the seller to have it updated if needed.

I've seen reported that AMD or one of the motherboard manufacturers has some sort of exchange program where you can buy an older CPU supported by the installed BIOS in order to update it, then exchange the old CPU for the one you want after the BIOS update is complete. Maybe it was AMD that would sell you an older CPU, and accept it in return for refund after the BIOS upgrade, if you provide a sales receipt and serial number of a CPU for which the BIOS upgrade is needed.

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Here's a 200GE.

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old_kuk,

A cheap LGA1200 motherboard plus this Intel Dual Core Pentium G6400 Comet Lake CPU:
https://www.ebuyer.com/974885-intel-...r-bx80701g6400 ?

EDIT
Currently in stock at Scan Computers:
MSI Intel H410M-A PRO Micro-ATX Motherboard:
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/nda-...gen1-micro-atx

Intel Dual Core Pentium G6400 Comet Lake CPU:
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/inte...che-58w-retail

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Maybe it's just me, but 58-watt for a low end cpu seems...excessive. Given my 3700X is a 65-watt chip that has 8 cores, 16 threads, and that's 2 cores and 4 threads and still sucks down 58-watts??? Nuts.

Too bad the Gemini Lake Refresh parts are all soldered parts. I have a laptop with the J4125, a 10-watt 4-core 4-thread CPU. THAT'S proper power usage on an ultra low end chip. Not 58-watts.

Again, my opinion only.

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Timothy Miller,

I take your point, but do remember that the OP is not interested in an expensive, high-powered CPU or graphics performance. He is looking for a basic CPU with built-in graphics.

In the UK the 3700X is £300 and then on top of that you need to buy a separate graphics card!

I was simply trying to find a cheap Intel CPU/motherboard combo, like the pairing in post #21 at about £112.

I get that, but what's the point of a cheap chip if it uses as much electric as a high end chip (IMO)? A cheap chip should sip electric IMO, not guzzle it like a performance chip.

Thanks, Timothy Miller.
I didn’t like the Intel Dual Core Pentium G6400 Comet Lake CPU.
There is an Atlon 3000G + Gigabyte B450M DS2H for sale. On the Internet I found this combination to work for Linux. I'll try.

With the caveat that it is running Windows, I can tell you that I have an A10-9700 with 16GB RAM running it a laptop. I realize you are talking about a desktop build, but, at least for this laptop, it was a TERRIBLE choice. It's extremely slow, even with 16GB of RAM. I wanted to do video editing with it, and even lightweight editors stumble.

Just my experience with a laptop.

Bob

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