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

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 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.

The Ryzen 5 4500 is a solid budget/mid-entry CPU. For what it costs, you get more than enough bang for many typical users. It delivers good multi-core performance, decent clocks, and comes with cooling. Just be aware of its architectural and feature limitations going

Working as intended. Nice upgrade from my previous setup. Easy to install

Pretty good little CPU especially for a budget build, good value for around $80 bucks

For what I paid at the time that I bought it, this CPU kicks butt. It isn't a super gaming processer, but it does ok for alot of older games & it performs quite well for most simple home user tasks. I did eventually replace it with a 5700X3D for a decent performance boost in Star Citizen.

This processor fit my application nicely. I added 64MB of RAM (32 would be plenty) and Windows is ready to go in 45 seconds from turn-on.

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