
Idk what to say honestly first time Ryzen cpu but it came quickly and well packaged and i got it in a combo with a motherboard

- Very efficient, low power usage - Low heat, any decent 120mm air cooler can handle it with no problem - Although considered a "gaming" CPU, it's very competent at production workloads, too

this new generation has two video drive cores its a stup from past generations

Fast Cool Efficient High Speeds

Love the cores to $ value of this CPU.

-Efficient and powerful for the price -Best entrypoint into the AM5 platform -I was scared of installation since it's my first build but it was drop in and go. Easier than I would've thought

Great CPU works great plays all the games maxed out.

Very good gaming CPU. Very efficient and performs well.

This review is from a senior citizen builder who had not built a computer since 8 years ago! I was reading some of the reviews after I built this unit and was interested in finding a way to load this chip up since normal computer use was using minimum core usage. I found Cinebench R23.200, a video rendering CPU tester with ratings listed compared to other chips after your test is complete. Cinebench was not immediately easy as a download since it needed to be extracted and a ddl file was necessary to open in order to open it properly. A bit after that it was smooth sailing. The result is listed above in the photo. The test loads the temperature parameters to the max so you better have excellent water cooling with a 3 fans radiator. The CPU percentage ran at 100% for the first 5 minutes of the ten minute test, then it would throttle a bit. The first time I ran it, I stopped it after the time limit stopped but it was still running and exited the program, so I never got a number although it listed in 1st place. The second time I let it run after the timer stopped for about a couple minutes and it finished on it's own and gave be the above number confirming what I thought happened the first test. I stopped gaming after Beyond Earth stopped working in windows 10 along with all my Microsoft Flight programs. Planned obsolescence !

No problem keeping the thermals in range with a quiet Noctua cooler.

There is no other chip out at the time of writing that can handle the rtx 4090 the way this chip can. It handles the load perfectly with the right cooling. The better the cooling/ the faster the chip becomes. If you want the very best, this is the cpu your looking for.

Latest technology at a fair price. Running 30-35C in home office tower.


- Runs cool during gaming and normal tasks. - Great L3 cache. - Run games completely fine.

At 4K, 100% GPU limited Low heat output compared to the 14900k, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE operates at low RPMs, CPU nowhere near thermal limits.

This doubles my multi thread rating. BF6 loads me in to maps much faster. If I encode more DVD Movies it will not take nearly as long. Planning to wait a couple of years before replacing the mobo, CPU, and RAM in my computer. RAM prices are out of control. Waiting for them to come back down.

65w tdp, but tunable and overclockable. Running it with an AIO watercooler, runs 40-65 celsios typically. Came up immediately with a discrete graphic card. ( I was having trouble with other (similar, used, no graphics cpu , Perhaps it is a simpler initialization when the cpu has graphics? ) It is nice to have the "latest and greatest Zen 5 core., as of 2025 I dabble in performance coding / performance optimization, I wanted the full 512 bit avx512 support featured in Zen 5. This CPU is a price/performance sweet spot.

Fantastic CPU for its age Great for gaming still in 2025 Intel just works

I got this item on sale, and it is an amazing upgrade for anyone with older Am4 setup. This runs significantly cooler than my 9700k, and even comes with a cooler. I did not use the included cooler, but it was a nice touch that makes the value even better.

- Cost - Speed - Performance