Cheaper even than the steady sub £100 ebuyer price, the Ryzen 3 CPU, in a suitable budget B350 motherboard, overclocks to in many but not all cases match and sometimes beat the significantly more expensive i5 7400 in games (though in many reviews it's barely noticeable unless you are using a GTX 1080 or at least at GTX 1070; if on a more representative budget using a GTX 1060 and not running other programs at the same time as gaming, the G4560 or G4600 are still great value for money, frames per second wise, though in some games not quite as fluid-smooth running as the multi core CPU). The i5 part comes with integrated graphics, though, which unfortunately the Ryzen doesn't have but the main selling point of the Ryzen 1200 is that it can be overclocked using the supplied Wraith cooler, without having to shell out for a third party cooler.

If you're not going to overclock and particularly if you are using something like a GTX 1060/RX 580 or cheaper budget graphics card, the cost per frame ratio is around the same as the cheaper G4560 and G4600 - see the benchmarks review below - though that's assuming you don't have other processes running while you game, like browsers, music players, or some productivity app rendering in the background, which many of us do but that reviewers often don't seem to have taken account of that in their reviews. If running productivity applications that take advantage of extra cores, the Ryzen 3 1200, overclocked, is decent performer at the cost, though not a significant improvement on Intel i5 CPUs of old; I'm hoping the Ryzen 3 1200 drives down the secondhand price of Intel i5s, to give the beleaguered budget system builders a break, to offset the increased cost of midrange graphics cards thanks to mining, higher memory costs, HD costs, soon-to-be higher SSD costs, apparently, etc.

I'm sharing yesterday's Hardware Unboxed review of the CPU overclocked because it benchmarks not just multiple CPUs but with three different price-point graphics cards, which to me seems much more realistic than reviews testing using only top end graphics cards, which reviewers argue is to remove any bottleknecking from the graphics card and to show the CPUs at their best.