Processors

I got this processor to replace my i5-9400F because I wanted to handle multitasking, resource-heavy scenarios and video production work and so far it's just absolutely demolished any task I've thrown at it, at base clock speed without so much as turning on AMD's automatic overclocking. I've played games and recorded them at Twitch-compatible bitrates (x264 encoding up to 8,000kbps CBR) with a camera and leap motion doing face and hand tracking at the same time and it laughs at the workload. I've played games recording 1080p and 1440p video at CRF14 (variable bit rate ranging from 30 thousand to over 50 thousand kbps) on x264 fast, or 1080/30fps console footage at the same CRF on x264 slow (i.e. CPU not running a game) and it still manages without any dropped frames. When using davinci resolve, using a 'smart' (automated) render cache is all I need for an almost entirely lag-free preview, no proxies / optimised media necessary. On the i5, rendering a 1080p video would take more time than the length of the video. The 3900 - assuming I largely leave the computer alone for the length of the render or just use it for light browsing - manages to render 1440p video at the 'best' preset (will vary depending on your source media) in faster than real time. For productivity and general gaming, it's an amazing processor. The only scenarios I've managed to scratch maxing it out - again, at base clock - are running CPU-heavy games, with face and hand tracking and two instances of CPU encoding at presets slower than necessary - unrealistic, intentional stress-test scenarios exclusively made to test its limits. At €250 cheaper than the 3950X, it's honestly a great price per performance ratio for multitaskers. The only other situation I find worth noting are a small handful of older games which were built intended to run on later hardware with much higher clock speeds that never came; like Guild Wars 2 and Planetside 2. Crysis would be another famous example of a game being built this way, where AMD's general aim of lower single core clock speed and higher core count starts to cause some issues, but these games will *always* cause issues for people without a full engine re-write. In these instances, fast RAM gives a significant upgrade in frame count. My cooler setup is 2 fans in, 2 fans out, one fan either side of a coolermaster hyper 212, Arctic MX-4 thermal paste. Idle, the processor sits around 40C. During games, it can kick up to high fifties, sixties. Under high, multitasking workloads with simultaneious gaming and intense encoding in OBS, or rendering in Resolve, it can move into the high seventies. Stress-test scenarios bring it up to 82C peaks.

As of this time (Nov-2020) get the Ryzen 5000 series instead for the gaming lead and productivity lead over intel. Quite simply this CPU is perfect for both gaming and prodcutivity. I use this to play games with my 2080ti with no bottleneck and have no problem maintaining high framerate whilst recording footage. Having those 12 cores for rendering is simply fantastic, it will take me about 14 minutes to render out a 4k 10 minute video in Premiere which is brilliant. If you are doing literally nothing but gaming then go with Intel as it can be at most a 10% increase in gaming performance with the 10900k over this 3900x but simply for this price having the 3900x is so much better value for your money because of those 4 extra cores. I totally recommend undervolting this CPU, I managed to lower my max temps by about 20 degrees just by doing so (down to 1.18v) and still mantain a 4.3ghz all core clock (look for a tutorial if you don't know how, it's fairly simple) i also recommend that you go out and buy at least 3200mhz RAM as Ryzen LOVES fast memory and you can see decent percentages in performance gain just from a RAM upgrade, plus RAM prices have decreased quite a bit. Overall i absolutely love this CPU and cannot recommend this enough to anyone looking for an upgrade. (Get Ryzen 5000 as of Nov-2020)

Finally got my hands on 3900X and it's great! Initially ordered on July 11, but when my order missed delivery date 11 days later, I got Ryzen 3 3200G to make sure the rest of my new build is working. BTW, 3200G is a beast of a CPU for the price! It's CPU performance is solid and iGPU performance is very impressive. It's hard to tell the difference between 3200G and 3900X in day to day use actually. Even in gaming, there's not a big difference, (though I do play at Quad-HD and 4K on RTX 2070, so games are mostly GPU bound). Anyway, I ended up cancelling my 3900X in September and re-ordered again from Amazon US when they became available a week ago. It's probably for the best, because I get 4.2GHz all core boost and single core boost of 4.65GHz (on stock BIOS settings), now that AMD has learned from all of the complaints about boost clocks and released the ABBA AGESA, and perhaps started binning 3900Xs a little better to save face. Multi-core performance is very impressive, I've tried compiling Rust projects and compressing large number of files with 7-zip. Now here, it's a night and day difference compared to my macbook pro and Ryzen 3200G. The CPU temp goes to 75C after a few minutes at full load (Blender Classroom rendering), with NH-D15S as a cooler. I used Noctua's thermal paste that came with the cooler, pressed the heatsink against the CPU, removed to check thermal paste covered the whole heat spreader, then screwed the heatsink on. If that helps, I'm using Aorus Elite x570 board, Micron's Ballistix DDR4 3200 RAM CL16 (4 sticks) and Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD. So there you go, I guess, this is 2 reviews in one. Looks like you can't go wrong with AMD's new CPUs. Buy with confidence!

This thing is a beast all round whether it's gaming, multi-tasking or doing anything that is CPU intensive. I've thrown everything at it and it churns everything incredibly easily, the only thing that would hold me back is my other components. I don't think I've ever had a CPU like this before, INTEL CPU's have honestly never felt like this at all. I can have multiple screens with multiple applications open which helps do my work much faster and much more efficiently. Gaming is also a huge blast and I'm seeing top performance that is on par with INTEL's top gaming CPU's. Now the stock fan you get with it is quite good as it will keep the temps at around 30 to 50 degrees Celsius but it will get loud when running many things at once hence why I don't use a stock cooler and I bought my own AIO CPU cooler and I recommend that for everyone looking to buy this. It's a 100% recommendation from me and I honestly don't think I will have to change CPU's for probably the next 10 years.

My first time going with AMD again for over 14 years as I usually stick with Intel. AMD is way ahead of the game and after reading various independent reviews they recommended AMD over Intel. Very pleased with the CPU. Incredibly fast and for the price it’s brilliant compared to Intel. Easy to install but AMD chips do run hotter so best to invest in a really good airflow cooler or water cooling to get the best from this chip. As you can see in my photo I went with a recommended air cooler from another customer off here and it’s massive!!! I didn’t install the cooler which came with the CPU. The new airflow heatsink does an incredible job in keeping the CPU under 50’C for most of the time. If you are debating whether or not to go with Intel or AMD I would seriously recommend AMD.

Bought this to replace my 2700X that i originally put into my PC build - lovely upgrade and at a decent price. Of course there are now more recent CPUs on the market that everyone is buying - but newer is not always better. I can run Cyberpunk 2077 with this in my build at high / ultra as well as stream twitch with numerous web pages open. It is solid - works great and with thermal paste applied it does not get much hotter than the 2700X before - maybe 3 or 4 degrees C. Arrived fast in the correct box with the CPU cooling fan (i do not use this as i have water cooling Corsair). Easy to fit as well. I do recommend you look up changing the CPU and make sure you are happy ion the correct method and what else is required before you swap parts however. This CPU will still pull its weight for years to come - and will no doubt be the best trade off value for money too.

This CPU is a powerhouse. I recently upgraded my PC for gaming / content creation / photography. I am running a 3900X 12 core Ryzen with 128GB G Skill 3600 RAM, and 10 HDD, and my old 1070 from previous build. This CPU is solid, and the stock cooler handles things well. It is a little "loud" out of the box because the fan is stock set to ramp up and down as CPU temps rise, but using the software / bios allows you to make a much better fan curve to keep the PC much more silent. (Probably should be like this as stock). My advice is to have a solid line on the graph until 62 degrees, then a steep line up to 75 degrees at which point max fans would kick in. This stops the fan ramping activity I saw out of the box. All in all, solid and stable and blisteringly responsive and fast in all applications and gaming. The RGB cooler is...pretty cool too!

Updated, Been solid so far

voller Vorfreude kam der Prozessor sehr gut verpackt und unversehrt bei mir an. Die Installation verlief wie zu erwarten ohne Probleme (wer keine Erfahrungen hat, keine Angst, es liegt eine Anleitung bei wie er zu installieren ist). Den Prism Kühler habe ich in der Box gelassen da ich von vornherein eine Wasserkühlung für mein Projekt ausgewählt habe. Jedoch macht auch dieser einen qualitativ hochwertigen und stylischen Eindruck (sicherlich ein Plus für Leute die auf Luftkühlung setzen). Mein aktuell fertiggestelltes setup läuft prima. Wichtig sei nochmal zu erwähnen, nach Möglichkeit vor der Installation, ein BIOS Update durchzuführen (sofern möglich) um etwaigen Problemchen in Sachen Konnektivität ect aus dem Weg zu gehen. Generell läuft mit der amd Treiber Installation aber ratz fatz alles wie es soll und ohne Probleme. Aktuelle Titel wie z. B CoD MW laufen bei mir auf hohen Einstellungen, der Prozessor läuft derzeit noch auf Standard takt, dabei hat der Prozessor sich stehts noch gelangweilt und die Temperaturen blieben im Keller. Ausreizen kann ich ihn wohl aber erst wenn ich eine aktuelle Grafikkarte zu humanen Preisen finde. OC software inklusive. Ich bin bisher begeistert und kann ihn empfehlen!

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The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is an amazing processor with outstanding speed and multitasking performance. Installation was easy, and it handles gaming, streaming, and productivity tasks without any issues. Runs smoothly and delivers excellent value for the performance. Highly recommended for anyone building a high-end PC!

Yo desde que pude elegir mi PC siempre elegí AMD, pero como muchos saben, hubo un tiempo en que sus procesadores no daban la calidad o rendimiento deseable ante la competencia, motivo por el cual me cambié a intel por un par de años. Desde la llegada de ryzen todo eso cambió y eso provocó que volviera a donde pertenezco. Debo decir que si, si ustedes buscan reviews en Internet, el nuevo ryzen 7 5700x le da vuelta a este procesador en juegos por el mismo precio, pero en productividad esos núcleos extra siguen dándole una ventaja interesante tanto con el ryzen 7 así como contra intel y lo que pudiera ofrecer (para productividad) por lo que debo decirles que aún en 2021 es una excelente alternativa este modelo (y no sus hermanos mayores de la serie 3000) tanto por el precio como por el hecho que su dicipador de stock es perfecto para mantenerlo fresco sin problema alguno, es un procesador maravilloso para trabajar y para el gaming se defiende aún sin problema alguno. Quizás si hubiera una queja seria la poca pasta térmica que trae de stock, pero nada que al cabo de 1 año o 2 puedas cambiar por una de mejor calidad. Como dato adicional ese cooler que trae va perfecto para poner todas las rams sin problemas siempre que no sean exageradamente altas, aunque bueno, si le vas a acompañar con rams con dicipadores altos (por ende rams costosas) invertir en un enfriamiento líquido no suena a mala idea.

After considering and checking different CPU's I choose Ryzen 9 3900X and it performs excellent.