Pros: - Performance - Silent operation - Temperatures

Cons: - Expensive (- big if your chose a smaller case) (- import duties to Thailand have gone through the roof)

Overall Review: Previous computer built 4 years ago was a 6900xt / 5800x. Made a new machine 9800x3d / rtx 5080 and the difference in thermals is amazing for both. 6900xt in Thailand with no aircon would easily reach thermal throttling and 95 degrees gpu / 105 hotspot. This Gygabyte 5080 gaming oc stays at a cool 60 in normal gaming usage ... When the 6900 sounded like a vacuum cleaner, this card in silent bios mode barely adds sound to the pretty silent case with 6 140mm fans and 3 aio 120mm fans. The card comes with a Gpu support bracket you screw to the card. You will find a plethora of people commenting about the lack of metal frame for the card, but the support for setting up the bracket is a solid chunk of metal ... time will tell, and it feels solid to me. The card works flawlessly in pcie 5.0 on a msi x870e carbon, with no crash in cyberpunk whatsoever. It was installed on a new win 11 install with the latest hot fix drivers. Not 1 black screen issue happened. Finally, I am really happy with the 4x frame gen. Not that I bought the card for that, but, in Cyberpunk 2077 using all max settings included RT settings (path tracing, ray reconstruction) ... Frame gen 4x makes the game buttery smooth and I could not when doing basic testing see any artefacts or difference from native frame settings. At 3440x1440 native, full cp2077 options including path tracing is simply not playable. Using Dlss4 quality / framegen 4x, the game ran at 120fps as by magic with no obvious artefact during gameplay (am sure there are if you look hard enough). The 12hpwr has a small led just on top which I guess lights up if the connection is faulty. I dont think the card has a software power pins health detection as the high end asus one which would be great to have as a standard in the future really ... It took 10 days from the order to arrive on an island in Thailand, with extended clearance customs. The parcel did a whooping : - Utah to Chicago - Chicago to London - London to Berlin - Berlin to Calcutta - Calcutta to Bangkok Card was sitting comfortably in the Newegg parcel surrounded by air pockets. Parcel was opened by customs. Parcel was found idly sitting on top of a scooter in the open while I was waiting for it for more than half the day :) Fingers crossed these early days impressions stay that way !

Overall Review: Very happy with my purchase until ... Until i tried updating the bios of my MSI gaming edge WiFi motherboard to the latest 1.2.0.0 AGESA bios. On previous bios, 4X8GB, the 4x8gb was posting without any issues at 3800mhz 1900 IF C16 without any stability issue, it was great. Latest AGESA 1.2.0.0 BIOS update would not post at all if trying to change the ram timings from bios defaults. Of course, MSI support in the matter was useless. Can't seem to change the review from 5 eggs in the app so ...

Overall Review: Not much to say. There is hope AMD would release a 8 core 65w 5700x in the future but for now the 5800x is a great long term investment. Concerning infinity fabric memory controller. On a b550m with latest bios i could run ddr4 RAM crucial elite c18 4000 at 4000 mhz 1:1 but windows would log a lot of WHEA warnings, though no BSOF. 3800mhz 1:1 runs without any warnings whatsoever. TEMPERATURE wise, i use a Noctua nh-d15 2 fans and stress testing the cpu with PBO on would max at 85 degrees Celsius. The only issue i had with the cpu is the packaging with the minimal protection and cpu shoved on one side of the box. Shipping by newegg internationally arrived with no damage though the box got banged up a bit. Cpu was oriented to be more protected, might have been random but might have been good care too. Package arrived with proper a cardboard box and bubble plastic inside ... Not a simple enveloppe ...