AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler

I found myself in need of upgrading a Core i5 2500K to allow my daughter to play Fortnite with my son and I. I paired this Ryzen 5 4500 with a Gigabyte B450M DS3H WIFI board and 16GB of TForce DDR4, and completed the build with an Antec 520W power supply, a 500GB SSD, and a Radeon RX 6600 that I had sitting in the parts bin.I already had Windows 11 installed on the drive and it booted right up. I installed the appropriate drivers and then used CPU-z to run a stress test. Under 100% load using the included Wraith Stealth cooler, the max temp I saw was 85C. Since I run a Ryzen 9 7900x on my main rig, I am more than comfortable with Ryzen's ability to handle heat, and 85C is perfectly acceptable in my book. Despite running hot, the fan was nice and quiet the entire time. This was under stock settings - no tuning to the fan curve. During the stress test, the max wattage use by the CPU was right around 58. Right now while idling it is pulling 10 watts and sitting at 40C.The only game I have installed right now is Fortnite. On Epic presets, 1080p, using the RX 6600, I was getting 40-55 FPS (which I consider perfectly playable on a budget-level system). On High presets I consistently pulled 60-70 FPS. I would get a little stuttering here and there, which I suspect is memory-bandwidth-related. In all fairness I haven't even opened the BIOS to tune any settings. GPU usage was at 100% and CPU was at maybe 75%-80%. I consider that a pretty efficient pairing, though you could possibly bump up to something like a 6750 XT to get a little more performance without the CPU becoming a bottleneck. In any case, this is sufficient performance for 1080p gaming on most modern titles running at higher settings (without raytracing of course). I'll be doing some additional benchmarks as I finish up the 100+GB downloads, and if there are any changes to my opinion I'll update this review.There are definitely faster processors, some of which don't cost a whole lot more than this. But since my goal was to build a viable system that paired well with my existing hardware, this really hit the sweet spot in terms of price and performance.

I have this in a budget build with a 6600xt and 16gb ddr4 3200. I game at 1080, 60fps. I knew this was going to be the target and it has worked great.I know there are better options for not much more but I can always upgrade in the future to something better, but for now I am happy with the performance for my needs.No problems streaming out at 720p while gaming at 60fps.

Good cpu to start out with. It comes with a cooler which is great, good as a gaming cpu. Overall price and performance you can't beat.

I brought this cpu for a simple secondary build and it gets the job done. The temps run extremely cool. Perfect pick

This is an excellent value pick for budget-conscious PC builders. With 6 cores and 12 threads, it offers solid multi-tasking and gaming performance when paired with a dedicated graphics card. It's very hard to beat for it's price, the only downside is it's limited to PCIe 3.0 but shouldn't be an issue if you don't care about gaming or your graphics card is PCIe 4.0 x16. If it's x8 then I suggest going for a PCIe 4.0 ready processor and motherboard.

Worked perfect. On time, nice item.

Very good processor so far no faults and quite decent I combined it with a 1660S and 32 GB RAM and it's a gemAs an additional note, the temperatures are very low even when it reaches 100% with the factory paste.

Nice budget cpuDoesn’t get to high in temperaturesRuns nice in Gpu heavy games not so much in CPU heavy gamesThis works with AM4 supportEasy to install but do be warned you could get locked out of system when upgrading CPU’s but a quick tutorial could help fix that issueComes with additional items like a cpu fan and thermal paste already applied on the cpu fan.