Pros: - High efficiency - Reasonable price - Eats up anything I throw at it (games, rendering, drafting, conversion) - Stock cooler keeps it a bit below 60C under load, less than 40C idle.

Cons: - Stock cooler is audible under load - I would be okay with slightly higher temps and the fan staying silent under load

Overall Review: It's a great chip, and given the slow state of advancement in the CPU market, this should be a very sound investment.

Pros: - Excellent cooling power - Silent for my Ryzen 3600 in most conditions - Just barely fits in my Cooler Master N200 case

Cons: - Installing the fan onto the heatsink took some time and effort. I accidentally bent a few fins during install.

Overall Review: - Great value, but install will take longer than you expect due to the finnicky fan clips

Pros: - 2 TB for the price is phenomenal - Speeds are pretty good, obviously limited by SATA III

Cons: - None

Overall Review: This was installed in an older B350 motherboard that only supported one M.2 slot in NVMe mode. The other M.2 slot only supported SATA/AHCI interface, so I decided just to get this SATA III 2.5" drive instead. I probably lost some speed, but this is perfectly fine as a data drive.

Pros: - Slim form-factor - Status LEDs are easy to read - Good price

Cons: - It would have been nice to have the power port on the front to reduce the overall installation size

Overall Review: This is set in an OnQ box in my garage and seems to be a very reliable, well built piece for home networking

Pros: - Easy install, quickly connected to wifi 6 after drivers were loaded

Cons: - Hardware is a bit too new for Windows 11 to have a built-in driver, so I had to load the drivers onto a USB from another computer to get it working

Overall Review: Replaced an aging ASUS wireless AC adapter, I am very happy with it for the price

Pros: - Great value for the speed - Approximately 25% faster than the Ryzen 5 1600 it is replacing. - AMD rocks in terms of compatibility, since I can use this with the B350M board/DDR4 2800 that I bought several years ago with the Ryzen 5 1600. - Core boost logic is vastly improved relative to the Ryzen 1 series, since more than one core can boost now. - PCIe 4.0, which will mesh well with my new GPU if I ever decide that it makes sense to upgrade my motherboard. - Better AVX2 performance, but this isn't really noticeable in day-to-day use unless you have optimized programs.

Cons: - I don't think the stock cooler is adequate, given the pretty minimal thermal headroom (see below). However, given the low price of the product, I can't imagine that AMD is charging us much more for the free cooler. - This thing runs HOT. My Ryzen 5 1600 rarely exceeded 55c using an Arctic Cooling Freezer 12 (rated at 150W). The same cooler, same brand of thermal paste on the 3600 idles around 50c. The slightest actions (opening a browser tab) will spike this by 10-15c, while running demanding programs (Rosetta@Home) puts the CPU in the 80-85c realm. I thought that maybe I applied the thermal paste poorly, so I cleaned it off and reapplied. After giving it another thermal break-in period, it is about the same as before, still peaking around 80c. From what I can read online, this is due to the new core boost logic (PBO) which will boost cores up as long as the CPU has enough cooling/voltage headroom. I have also read that the 3600 is more 'conservative' with its temperature reporting, reporting something closer to the maximum of all sensors on the chip rather than the mean. I haven't noticed stability problems of any kind, but those temperature spikes took a while to get used to.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this product, especially for people upgrading from 1-series or low 2-series processors. It is a noticeable improvement for a very reasonable price, and can be used with basically all of the original Ryzen-compatible motherboards.