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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core/12 Threads AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler, 100-100000031BOX

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A powerful 6-core processor with 12 threads
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Item Weight	45.4 g
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The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz AM4 Processor is a powerful 6-core processor with 12 threads. It is especially designed for socket AM4 motherboards. Designed with Zen 2 architecture, the third-generation 7nm Ryzen processor offers increased performance than its predecessor. It has a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz and can reach a max boost clock speed of 4.2 GHz. Besides, the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 features 32MB of L3 cache, 24 PCIe Gen 4 lanes and support for dual-channel 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM. You can pair it with an AMD X500-series motherboard to fully take advantage of PCIe 4.0. It has a 65W TDP (thermal design power) and includes a Wraith Stealth cooler.

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Jacques

Not as advertised

Reviewed in Australia on 3 November 2019

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Said it was in a bundle with CPU, only came with motherboard

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Harrison Oates

Doesn’t come as advertised

Reviewed in Australia on 7 April 2020

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No CPU when the style clearly states otherwise. Very disappointed.

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Aidan Michael

'Intel sucks AMD is better'

Reviewed in Australia on 30 May 2020

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Previously owned a intel core i7-9700k and compared with the ryzen 5 3600 its the best bang for your buck. Did a comparison on the two chips and surprisingly I was more comfortable with the ryzen 5 3600 in my system. For $300+ less for a ryzen 5 3600, I definitely will be switching to AMD and purchasing their future cpus.

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ADAM

Brought my system back to Life!

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2020

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Not the cheapest CPU out there, but it's worth it when you have a weak setup to begin with. My i7-3770 and GTX 1060 6GB was just not really talking and once I upgraded to DDR4 with the Ryzen 5 3600, all my games suddenly worked on Ultra settings at a clean 60fps across the board! Please note, I bought 16GB ram to go with this, your experience may differ.

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Sehhoon O.

Best value CPU currently

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2020

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Stacks up great against intel CPUs with cheaper price and similar performance

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Nathan

Do a bios compatibility check before you swap the new cpu in

Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2019

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Arrived on time, was an easy install after a quick bios flash before hardware swap over. Boosts past advertised boost clocks

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Danny

Wish it came in a proper box instead of the massive amazon envelope

Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2020

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Everything was great only problem was the shipping, no protection at all for the cpu box but other then that, it’s great.

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Nicholas L.

CPU Came as advertised and FAST

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2020

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Questioned the reliability at first.
Was greatly reassured. Came fast and as advertised.

Nice CPU too!

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Lukas A.

THIS CPU IS SO BAD

Reviewed in Germany on 2 August 2019

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I don't even know if it's on? It's too quiet. And it's making my room freeze. I need to wear a Parka when I turn my PC on. Also my PC is now so fast I can't even read loading screens. What a piece of garbage.

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PacMar by Marco Ataru

Il nuovo re della fascia media

Reviewed in Italy on 1 September 2019

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AMD l’ha fatto. Ha sganciato la bomba. I nuovi Ryzen di 3a generazione sono un concentrato d’innovazione sotto tutti i punti di vista: dal design chiplet con alla base il processo produttivo a 7 nm, passando per il supporto al PCI-express 4.0 fino ad arrivare al massiccio incremento di memoria cache L3.
Tutto questo si traduce in un aumento notevole delle prestazioni, mantenendo invariati i consumi e tenendo accessibili i prezzi.
Riuscirà l’azienda di Sunnyvale a strappare lo scettro alla nemica di sempre?

ARCHITETTURA
I Ryzen 3000, nome in codice Matisse, si basano sulla microarchitettura Zen 2 di AMD e utilizzano il neonato processo produttivo a 7 nm della taiwanese TSMC. Progettati per il socket AM4, sono retrocompatibili con le schede madri delle precedenti serie 300/400, previo aggiornamento del BIOS.
Questi processori usano un primo vero design multi-chip (chiplet) in cui i core x86, prodotti a 7nm, sono affiancati da un controller I/O a 12nm: ciò ha consentito all’azienda di non far lievitare troppo i prezzi, poiché i 7nm sono evidentemente più costosi; anzi, AMD è riuscita addirittura a proporre le nuove CPU allo stesso prezzo di listino dei Ryzen di vecchia generazione.

PRESTAZIONI
L’architettura Zen 2, unita a frequenze di clock più elevate merito del nuovo nodo produttivo, ha portato ad un aumento dell’IPC del 15% rispetto alla precedente serie di processori e addirittura del 45% rispetto ai Ryzen di 1a generazione: in soli 2 anni AMD è riuscita ad incrementare le performance di quasi il 50% per CPU della stessa fascia di prezzo.
Notevole. Davvero notevole.

BENCHMARK
Su Geekbench, il Ryzen 5 3600 ha registrato un risultato sorprendente per una CPU di fascia media: con punteggi “single core” di quasi 6mila punti e “multi-thread” superiori ai 30mila, supera tutti i processori AMD di precedente generazione, persino il più corazzato Ryzen 7 2700X.

CONSUMI
Consumi invariati rispetto ai Ryzen di scorsa generazione: AMD ha preferito spingere l'acceleratore sulle frequenze guadagnando in prestazioni.

PREZZO
Il Ryzen 5 3600 offre un valore eccezionale per quello che costa: al prezzo di 190€ venduto e spedito da Amazon, poi, è davvero tanta roba.
È la migliore opzione per chi sta assemblando un nuovo PC da zero: batte il Core i5 9600K in praticamente tutte le applicazioni provate e nella peggior situazione pareggia i conti.
È anche una validissima opzione per chi due anni fa ha acquistato un'economica B350 con Ryzen 5 1600, ad esempio: basterà aggiornare il BIOS e sostituire la sola CPU per avere un incremento di prestazioni fino al 35% nei giochi e di almeno il 45% nelle applicazioni. Mica male.

CONCLUSIONI
Un incremento di performance notevole rispetto alla generazione passata, mantenendo il supporto alle vecchie schede madri e prezzo di vendita estremamente competitivo.
Io ho già scelto quale processore monterà la mia prossima configurazione. Voi?

In sintesi

PRO
- ottime prestazioni
- prezzo competitivo
- supporta le schede madri serie 300/400 previo aggiornamento BIOS

CONTRO
- nessuno rilevato

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Rays Thakur

Damaged

Reviewed in India on 12 October 2019

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Great For Gaming But I Got Damaged One... Better To Buy Checked Once By Yourself Or Buy Offline

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Varusman

Un procesador multihilo fenomenal para jugar/stremear

Reviewed in Spain on 8 November 2019

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Compre el procesador para una build de los siguientes componentes:
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
DRAM: Corsair LP 16 GB DDR4 3600
Tarjeta Grafica: Saphire Nitro+ RX 5700 XT
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 M.2 500Gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2Tb Desktop 3.5in 6gb/s
Disipador: Cooler Master Hyper 212 (para zocalo AM4)
Fuente de Alimentacion: Corsair CX750 (Mejorable no money )

Mi experiencia ha sido increiblemente buena, en mi set up me tira todos los juegos en ultra y a la vez stremeando con el OBS con rendimiento muy bueno sin perdida de rendimiento.
Teniendo un maximo delos cercanos 4.2 GHz para juegos de gran demanda mientras stremeo.
No dude nada en comprar el disipador externo ya que sabia que el de serie podria quedarse corto ya que tienden a tener temperaturas altas, pero eso no quita que el de serie cumpla con su funcion. Yo pense para la salud del procesador en un futuro y decidi realizar ese gasto extra incluso al disipador meterle un segundo ventilador.
En general una maravilla que sin duda recomiendo a quien vayan a realizar una buil nueva de PC. Quizas como otras personas sugerian si vienen de una 2a gen, quizas no sale tan rentable por unos fps mas, quizas deben tirar un poco mas alto quizas 3700 para contar con mas años de rendimiento optimo.
Si os ha ayudado esta opinion me ayudaria mucho que me dejarais un voto útil. Gracias!

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M21

Oberklasse Leistung

Reviewed in Germany on 21 August 2019

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Die neue Generation von AMD, Zen 2 ist Architektur und fertigungstechnisch ein gigantischer Schritt nach vorne. In den Benchmarks hat zieht man in den Instruktionen pro Takt und bei der Energieeffizienz deutlich an dem Marktführer Intel vorbei und das mit einer sehr attraktiven preislichen Positionierung.

Für mich war das der Moment, einen kleinen Zweitpc einzurichten, 16GB RAM, der kleine Ryzen 5 3600, ein 60€ Mainboard und eine NVMe SSD zusammen mit einer alten Grafikkarte. Windows war innerhalb von 3 Minuten installiert und kurz darauf auf dem Desktop.

Ich entwickle Python Software (Bereich Deep und Machine Learning) und habe daher mal einen Benchmark für typische CPU Aufgaben gebastelt, erstellen von Dictionaries aus synthetischen Daten, sortieren von Daten, Tokenisierung, Erzeugen von Dokument-Term Matrizen und Dimensionsreduktion.

Und nun der Schock: Die Software auf dem 3600 20 bis 60% schneller durch als auf dem Hauptcomputer mit 64GB RAM, noch schneller SSD und Ryzen 7 1700X. Und das sind völlig typische Alltagsberechnungen, genau die Dinge die ich im Alltag verwende.

Auch die Multithreading Leistung ist extrem gut und behauptet sich in Benchmarks.
Meine Einschätzung:

Der Ryzen 5 3600 ist eigentlich gar keine Einstiegs-CPU sondern überflügelt vorherige Oberklasse CPUs locker. Klar, manche aktuellen Intel High End CPUs, die ultra hochgetaktet und viel höherer Verlustleistung rechen, sind in bestimmten Anwendungen wohl noch ein bisschen schneller.
Aber der Sprung den AMD hier gemacht hat, ist einfach phänomenal. Der 3600 ist eine sehr sehr schnelle CPU, läuft klasse in aktuellen Spielen, hat eine ordentliche Multithread Leistung, eine CPU bei der niemand vor einem Jahr geglaubt hätte, dass es so etwas heutzutage für 200€ zu kaufen gibt.

Ein kleiner Nachteil: Der mitgelieferte Kühler ist kein Traum, es geht schon, aber man möchte vielleicht auf etwas besseres wechseln. Aber im Vergleich zu dem Gesamtprodukt ist das geringfügig, diese CPU ist eine Meisterleistung.

Mit dem Hauptrechner werde ich nun dann doch auf einen Ryzen 9 3900X umsteigen, einen Vergleich werde ich hier dann noch Ergänzen.

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P. Sozza

Performances au top

Reviewed in France on 26 August 2019

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Les performances sont au top !, je retire deux étoiles car au déballage du processeur, 3 pinoches étaient tordues !!! ce qui empêchait toute insertion dans le slot Am4 de la carte mère, très délicatement je les aient redressées. Pourtant le processeur était strictement neuf et la boite était bien scellée !! c'est inacceptable de la part d'AMD.

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吊るしでのCPU性能は一般用途には十分。追加投資はそれ以外に。

Reviewed in Japan on 13 July 2019

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B450M pro4で2400Gから3600 + RX570への換装。メモリは2666。
R20のスコアは2400Gからほぼ倍に。Coreシリーズとの比較では、8700K以上9700K未満、中間値よりやや9700K寄り、と言う位置づけ。
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立ち位置としては、廉価なB450チップセットでも組め、同クラスのCore i7より2万円ほど安くなった分の予算をストレージやGPUに投資することで、フルHDゲーミングやオフィス、開発機、クリエイティブ系のPCを組む用途向けと言った感じ。
反面、X570と組み合わせたりリテール以外のCPUクーラー換装などを考えている場合は、3600の「伸びしろがない」部分がネックになって逆にコスパは悪化すると思われる。
CPU単体のスコアに金をかけるなら3600X以上で。

コンポーネント間で予算のかけ方を間違えなければ、Zen2機でコスパトップのCPUと言える。

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rosario ..........

NOTEVOLE PASSO IN AVANTI!!

Reviewed in Italy on 15 October 2019

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Eccellente prodotto, ero gia un possessore del modello precedente ovvero il 2600, per questo per la mia nuova configurazione ero orientato a prendere il modello successivo, approfittando di un offerta a tempo ho voluto acquistarlo e sono rimasto subito soddisfatto notando un notevole incremento delle prestazioni,

📦 CONFEZIONE 📦
questo prodotto è spedito da amazon quindi la confezione è sempre una garanzia senza rischi di danneggiamento, arrivato nella sua scatola sigillato con al suo esterno il logo mentre al suo interno troviamo
-1 processore
-1 dissipatore
-1 manuale di istruzioni

💡PRODOTTO E CONSIDERAZIONI💡
le caratteristiche tecniche sono simili ai modelli che lo hanno preceduto ovvero architettura a 6 core e 12 thread che possono processati in parallelo , le frequenze di clock aumentano leggermente rispetto al mio 2600 passando da 3,4 Ghz a 3,6 mentre con il turbo clock da 3,9 Ghz a 4,2
le vere novita sono sotto la scocca in quando questo processore si basa su architettura zen 2, che consente un netto passo in avanti nelle prestazioni soprattutto con i giochi grazie anche ai 7 nm che fanno ottenere consumi piu' bassi a pieno carico, che si aggirano intorno ai 65 watt
le prestazioni generali rispetto al modello precedente aumentano di circa il 15% difatto vanno ad azzerare il gap delle prestazioni che c'era con il modello precedente basato su architettura zen plus nei confronti anche di processori intel i5, nei miei test li ho trovati superiori in tutti gli ambiti e soprattutto quando possono essere sfruttati tutti i core,
è possibile grazie al moltiplicatore sbloccato andare a overclockare scelta secondo me inutile anche perche' non si vanno ad ottenere grandi miglioramenti nelle prestazioni anche andando a utilizzare sistemi di raffreddamento sofisticati, in quanto gia' di default vanno a lavorare con specifiche di clock molto elevate grazie anche alla tecnologia di funzionamento precision boost, quindi per chi vuole un piccolo incremento ci sta andare in overclock ma in alternativa il mio consiglio e di acquistare un buon sistema di raffreddamento a liquido in quanto gia di default la tecnologia di costruzione interviene spingendo al massimo la frequenza di clock con la conseguenza di aumentare le prestazioni
CONCLUSIONI
a questo prezzo sicuramente vale la pena acquistarlo la mia esperienza è stata davvero positiva avendo riscontrato un incremento delle prestazioni soprattutto per cio che riguarda il gaming per questo mi sento di consigliare questo processore a tutte quelle persone che come me sono alla ricerca di un processore che giri veramente alla grande gia di default senza aver mai il minimo problema

✅ PRO:
-Facilita di istallazione
-Prezzo
-Prestazioni generali

❌ CONTRO:
-Nessuno particolarmente rilevante

💰RAPPORTO QUALITÀ/PREZZO💰
-Eccellente

🚚 SPEDIZIONE 🚚
prodotto che beneficia della spedizione amazon prime servizio eccellente alla quale vanno fatti i complimenti perche' è sempre il top, il prodotto mi è arrivato nei tempi stabiliti di consegna prevista

(Se hai trovato utile la mia recensione non dimenticare di valutarla)

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Marco

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Reviewed in Italy on 24 July 2019

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Questo processore non ha bisogno di particolari presentazioni...una fascia media che scoppia!
Processore super versatile forte e competitivo sia nel single core che multi core...
Su Cinebench 20 sfiora i 3500 di score.
Ho provato anche a fare un po di OC pero con una b450 non si possono fare miracoli....a 3800 ci arrivo oltre inizia a crashare. (ma non sono un esperto!)

Lo consiglio a chiunque sia in procinto di fare un upgrade sostanzioso e voglia mantenere la spesa bassa.
Io l'ho montato su AM4 B450 MSI Tomahawk sfruttando la funzione M FLASHBACK + che perfette di flashare il BIOS senza uso di CPU montata con una pendrive USB.
Ricordo che se volete montare una cpu come questa (serie 3000) su b450 sono poche al momento le schede madri che permettono di eseguire quest'operazione.
Altrimenti vi serve essere già in possesso di una vecchia configurazione AMD ryzen per installare il nuovo bios e solo dopo, montare la nuova CPU.

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Vishal Rana

Beast Processor, best one available

Reviewed in India on 29 October 2019

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Bought precisely for gaming and streaming. Looked around for an year or so before building a gaming pc. I was skeptical in Intel and Ryzen but finally laid my hands on this beast due to cost per core scenario. It beats Intel in all tests apart from single core tasks which i beleive not an issue for me.

If you are looking for something cost effective and have a beastly performance, without a doubt just go for it. I using it with rtx 2060, ssd 500gb and 8gb RAM and beleive me yiu will get that butter smooth experience you always wanted to have.

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Price to performance goddess

Reviewed in Canada on 21 August 2019

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The 3600 is by far one of the most next gen and competitive AMD CPUs out there to date. Coming from the i7 6700k then to the r7 2700x and now the r5 3600 (wanted better gaming performance) . This cpu is basically a 8700k in terms of raw power and gaming for a really good price while including a cooler and thermal paste its really hard to beat. Almost same performance in work loads as the 2700x of course doesn't have 8 cores but wayyy better gaming performance in certain titles (r6 was around 50 - 70 fps better and csgo was over 150+ difference ) paired with my 2070 this thing is lighting fast. If you are doing heavy workloads with gaming on the side? 2700x or 3700x cause 8 cores is perfect, but for pure gaming the 3600 is impeccable especially at the price. Better than my 6700k at 4.5GHZ, major recommendation

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Mattt

AMD's Sweet Spot for Gaming👌🏻

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2019

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So, starting this review off I've been using my Ryzen 5 3600 for a few weeks on my Asus ROG STRIX x470-f motherboard with Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200mhz DDR4(2X8GB) I've had no issues at all with installation or even getting up and running - besides for the hour of fresh OS install as recommended when changing hardware.

First off the installation to the board itself couldn't be easier, drivers and software is all in one handy zipped file on the AMD Support page, one click and a restart and that's it. I like experimenting a little with Ryzen Master and squeezing a little more performance out of it - conveniently on the new version of RM, there's actually a 'Precision Boost' & 'Auto Overclocking' presets which gives worry free improvements as they're all customised by AMD themselves.

So with the overclocking max set to 4.26Ghz, RAM boosted to 3,266Mhz and my 980Ti on stock, the gaming experience is definitely worth the £188 I paid compared to my old 1700x (£170).
Already off the bat, the single thread speeds were very noticeable providing even better performance in my games but without sacrificing much of the Multithreading speed of the 1700x. I play all of my games on 1080p 60fps, Very High with some 2xMSAA(sometimes 4x if the game is well optimised) and it handles it all really well, give or take a few frames dropped here and there but nothing to frown about considering you're paying less than £200!

Temperatures of my 3600 at 4.25Ghz paired with my Hyper Evo 212(With AM4 adapter) idles around 34-40 degrees and is around 65-70 under full load but mostly towards the 60 degrees side and less than 70 Watts of power consumption.

I'm planning to upgrade to an RTX soon though because my 980Ti is almost 5 years old so it is starting to feel a little slow and could possibly be holding the Ryzen back a little. Anyway, I digress, for £180-190 this is the closest you're going to get in terms of performance to an Intel i5 chip at a competitive price point!

AMD have hit the jackpot with these chips and I can't see why anyone would turn their nose up at the price:performance ratio you can get with a Ryzen!

EDIT: I was checking a few recent reviews on here and people complaining about the AMD Rewards as a scam? NOT TRUE AT ALL!
I was able to redeem my 3 months of Game Pass back in July with no issues after installing the product verification tool from the site. Apparently a lot of people don't understand how to use computers on here and blame the hardware 😅 ignore all of the one star reviews.

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Kevn D Johns

Great CPU - be aware of potential issues on older chipsets.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2019

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(3600) great upgrade from my FX8120, gaming is super on my 1070 playing VR with an Oculus Rift and Mordau and RoE at the desk....looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077.
Hasn't been a smooth ride however, mostly my own fault for going with a previous gen mobo (it was way cheaper than even the most basic 570)... BIOS flashing my MSI B450 Carbon Pro was a piece of cake using the Flashback+ feature (I'll admit that experiencing performing a flash without having to get my hands on an older chip was something I was interested in doing and contributed to my purchase of the board.)
However the current BIOS is far from perfect, when the rig is up and running it's a peach...but restarting the machine is a nightmare and usually involves between 4-20 attempts before it actually boots.
Still, none of that should reflect on the chip, which is a beast for the money...it was my choice to pair it with a previous gen mobo, it didn't expect it to be quite as problematic as it has been though.

Balls in Intel's court now...let's see some price cuts lads. Red or Blue doesn't really matter to me, I've had great AMD chips and great Intel CPUs too. Competition is a win for all consumers.

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CragScrambler

The legend is true!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2019

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Fantastic chip, runs as advertised nice and stable on an B450 MSI Tomahawk Max motherboard and 16gb of HyperX Predator 3200Mhz Ram.

It all worked together out of the box, though I did update to the latest bios for the board once it was all set up.

I'm using an Artic eSports duo cooler and see idle temps of around 40c @30% fan speed and it boosts to 4.2Ghz all core and runs temps of around 60c at 70% fan speeds under a constant load while gaming.

Also have this chip coupled with an Powercolour RX 5700XT Red Devil GPU and the system powers through any game I throw at it @1080p on ultra settings @100+ fps.
Nearer 80fps on ultra @1440p

(Gears 5 ultra settings with advanced textures)

Great performance for a good price

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The new "sweet spot" CPU.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2019

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Worthy upgrade from the Ryzen 5 1600. Gaming performance is a leap forward and overall desktop speed increase is also very noticeable. I dropped this into my MSI B350 Tomahawk Arctic motherboard, after installing the latest beta bios and it runs like a dream and lets me overclock my 3200 MHz Crucial Ballistix ram to 3600 MHz, without issue. Overall, very impressed.

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