5800x3D CPU.
by Terry
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Big thanks to OC as I ordered this very late on friday within 30mins of shop shutting and it came next morning, So as for power its a beast and as for temps I have it on a 360 Arctic II front intake and idles at 38 and during intense bf2042 full max settings only hit 68 all night. So very pleased with the upgrade as I had a 3600x before so massive jump and my bios was ready for it. Paired it with 32g ram I just upgraded from 16g and my 3070 runs nice with it till I upgrade the gpu.
Great Last HURRAH For AM4
by Fran
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I built an HTPC to do VR in the living room using a 5600X, B550 and 6900XT. As soon as this puppy went under £400, I grabbed one and such a great performance uplift without a platform change. In VR it is hard to notice "increases in FPS", but you can definitely notice the better frame pacing, which is crucial for a good experience. Also, this is in a thermally constrained enclosure and it doesn't go beyond 80°C when playing games, streaming and using voice chat. Sure, it runs hotter than the 5600X, but it also puts way more frames for me to enjoy while keeping the same whisper quiet operation when just watching Netflix.
Great buy and great last hurrah, for sure.
Excellent overall product, lack of overclocking only minor downside
by Chris
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With wanting a long term upgrade from a 1700X for my gaming PC, this has been excellent so far. The added cache really does benefit a lot of games, including older titles I still have like Fallout 4 and GTA V. Although I can understand AMD not enabling overclocking on this CPU, I really hope that they don't drop support for this with it being a stepping stone for AM5, and revisit stability of the CPU with even a light overclock. As honestly that is the only downside of this right now, where the cache has little to no benefit and the CPU essentially performs like a highly binned 5800X. Which honestly is fine for the price but not having the overclocking seems to make this an odd one out in the range. That being said, I'll take that trade-off for now for the hilariously cool temps and low power draw.
Admittedly, I have also splashed out on 2x 2TB PCIe 4th gen NVMe drives as well as a newer X570 motherboard (my older board was compatible) to go along with my already 16GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM, so I'm more or less set. The only thing I'm waiting on now is a new GPU... whenever that'll be available! I'm aiming for this PC to be a long term system for the future now, so after the GPU purchase I fully plan to not touch it again for a solid 5-10 years. Here's hoping!
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