AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core 3.8 GHz Socket AM4 105W 100-100000063WOF Desktop Processor

Pros: The best gaming CPU available, bar none, and I can even argue that against the 5900x or 5950x. With a solid cooler I am seeing stable boost clocks to 4.9GHz. Higher all core boost clocks than the 5900x can sustain. Single CCX that leverages the OS scheduler more efficiently. Wicked fast IPC. B550 or X570 compatibility and platform benefits therein. Fastest individual cores for any current computing task (gaming or productivity). The hype was real, the reviews are real, this CPU is a beast and in the purpose of a gaming system, this is absolutely the best CPU overall that money can buy.

Cons: Cooling, bring a solid cooler to rumble with this CPU because it puts out serious heat. Granted this isn't an issue for some, and you do get performance for the heat it puts out, BE READY FOR IT. Don't cheap out, don't hope that a mid-range air cooler can do the job. Bring your cooling A-game because this thing will put it to the test. Aside from that, it's a bit pricey, and in my opinion it's slightly overpriced. AMD has traditionally been a "value brand", so the perception that this is a performance part is certainly dictated by price, I just don't like it as I viewed Intel CPU's as already overpriced. If you take the subjective relative opinion about price out of the equation, this is not so much of a con, as a gripe.

Overall Review: Price gripe aside, I absolutely recommend this CPU. It stands alone as king of the gaming hill. If you get a 5900x, you stand to lose some practical gaming performance as developers are not efficiently optimizing 12 threads, let alone 16. Stepping up in core counts is a good move for productivity and applications that are multithreaded above 16, but for gaming, the high IPC, higher sustained boosts, and unique thermal profile and performance makes this the best gaming CPU known to mankind for the moment. We'll see what Rocketlake truly brings to the table, and what that value equation looks like. If you just want to be team red, this CPU doesn't let you down. For absolute performance aside from your brand preference, this CPU still doesn't let you down. If you bleed blue, this is still the CPU for you as I can make the argument you shouldn't stymie your experience over brand loyalty, given the performance gap. This CPU outperforms the 10900k despite the core advantage the 10900k has, when you factor in thermal profile, performance IPC per core, and the consequent multithreading performance STILL being higher despite fewer threads, you can wait for Rocketlake if you are just an Intel fan. If you're just looking to do your upgrade today and are fine with future hardware being comparable or changing the value equation, you'll be satisfied with this purchase.

Overall Review: For those lucky enough to snag an AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU right now at MSRP please check your bios version on your motherboard before first boot. First time I booted this up the motherboard wouldnt recognize the cpu. Luckily I had a 3600 to test the motherboard. It worked fine so I figured the bios hadnt been updated. I have the MSI X570 Unify for those that are curious and the bios version was from August of this year. Once I updated the bios everything ran fine. Hope this helps.

Pros: 5800x very powerful and i love it

Cons: none

Overall Review: i recommend this product to everyone

Pros: - Great upgrade (from an i7 6700k 4c/8t 4.4ghz) - Farcry 6 nice promotion

Cons: - End of AM4 socket

Overall Review: Overall nice product if you can get your hands on one. I got lucky. I had to manually flash the MB bios (without the cpu or ram installed). First time doing that with no issues on the b550 tomahawk.

Pros: Awesome CPU, great all core + single core clocks even at stock.

Cons: The value compared to the 5600x and 590x0 is a bit low.

Overall Review: If 8 cores are enough for what you need, this CPU really is the sweet spot.

Pros: Boosts to 4.85ghz Improved frame times over 6700k in gaming

Cons: Runs a little warm, but was expected, idle between 35-40c with ambient 22c, using a large air cooler Hits 77-80c under load

Overall Review: Upgrading from a 6700k, this was a great upgrade, would recommend.

Pros: Fast Fast Fast. What else is there to say

Cons: Tough to buy

Overall Review: But this if you can

Pros: Let me start off by saying I’m coming from a R7 2700. ZAM THE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IS MIND BLOWING. I’m glad I waited and didn’t buy from scalpers, albeit it was a package deal a buddy of mine was in need of an x570 and the MSI has been great to him.

Cons: Difficulty of obtaining, no cons to the item itself.

Overall Review: 10/10 recommend