you plan on watching 1080p60fps Youtube videos, having 20 tabs open, copying files in the background, while playing Team Fortress 2 this CPU will probably get to ~45% usage with zero significant lag.

I came from an i5 and was unable to play 4K Youtube videos without my PC having serious issues. One of the first things I did was open three at once with zero performance issues. So far, the only time I've been able to get my CPU usage above 50% is when I have benchmarked encryption speeds.

My only complaint would be the stock cooler because I kept having temperature issues. I guess this is an aberration, because many people have stated that the stock cooler is more than enough. Now I'm using the Noctua NH-D14 (My case cannot fit the D15), which completely ameliorated any temperature issues I was having. Shoutout to Noctua support for being awesome.

Overall I'm blown away by this CPU. It is incredible to not have a CPU that will bottleneck no matter what I throw at it. Get this over the 1700x or the 1800x, this is going to be the best bang for your buck.

calling amd and talking to technicians at multiple points. They did try to help but never replaced or refunded me either. It ran nuclear hot and eventually after two motherboards and three psu's it fried. I was only 17 and had saved up for over a year for this chip. Any other build to that point for me was cheaper than just that cpu. Never touched another AMD chip until now. Since switching to Intel I have had no issues at all, they run cool and efficient. Here's where the problem lies. Kaby lake is good but mediocre. Either skylake shouldn't have been released or it should have come with the Z270 features on it already. When I came into some scratch, I waited (not my strong suit). I wanted to believe AMD could once again topple a colossus. They have. Intel isn't going anywhere and nor should they, but it has made them sweat a little and I'm grinning the whole time. Both are amazing and loved by me, the left side of my brain loves the low tdp and numerous efficiencies. The right side of my brain loves that AMD has created a piece of sophisticated art while yelling out the window at the top of their lungs and never letting off the breaks. We need Intel's responsible conservative nature, but we also need AMD's belt fed .50BMG levels of insanity. It's not always smart to fix a problem with a sledgehammer but sometimes you actually do need one. This thing is cheap for what you're getting and only 65w tdp with eight cores and sixteen threads...It's insanity incarnate. I have it overclocked to 3.7 on the stock wraith cooler running idles at 38c and 1.185 volts. RAM is set to 2667MHz, but will soon be able to get 3200 as patches arrive. Unless you are an extreme enthusiast, just get this, so many bases are covered from heavy workloads and rendering to gaming and graphic design. There is some minor teething but most are already being fixed as I write this, it's new, there will be some tweaking required but nothing difficult. Check out level 1 tech's review as I feel they did a much better job of explaining the architecture and expectations of the new design. Ryzen is a sign of renewed competition which breeds smarter design. Thank you AMD for never giving up and showing us that underdogs can once again rise like a phoenix.

herboard and 16gigs of G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series ram. I installed the newest bios update and overclocking was easy. The ram is running at 3200 MHZ with the Ryzen 1700 overclocked to 3.8GHZ @ 1.36 volts. My system is stable and the corsair H80i keeps temps at 38c idle and after a hour of prime95 it did not go past 75c. I am loving the speeds and multitasking my Ryzen 1700 is capable of.

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I ended up spending around $820 but there were around $140 in rebates for the entire build. It's a fantastic cpu, it's amazing at multi tasking due to amd's architectural design. I wish I had this thing in my PC to replace my Intel i7 5820k which is a really good cpu as well but even when I push it to 5ghz it can't keep up when it comes to running multiple high end programs at once.

Ryzen is King.

erformance.

Packaging: It is beautiful, i will say this is a premium package, when you open it the first thing you see is the included cooler which is amazin and the processor very well packaged too.

Cooler included: Excellent, i overclocked it to 3.7 GHZ in all cores with this stock cooler and with max load using CPUz it doesn't go over 70 C, also the RGB is so cool. Very silent cooler too.

Performance: Solid, moves Windows 10 like a joke, you can do gaming and a lot of other tasks at the same time without losing performance thanks to the 8 cores and 16 threats.

Price to performance: I will say this is the best bang for the buck, I got it for $284 which was a discount price versus an i7 8700 which is faster in gaming yes, but it also costs $400 right now, on black friday it was for around $260 so it is a great option. A lot of ppl says this is crap for gaming, well... that's not true, it is excellent, yes, intel is better but not that much (around 10%). However overall benefit from this processor is better I think, for design and gaming balance.

Good job AMD (I'm not a fan boy, all my last 5 PCs were all intel, just giving a good review to an excellent product).

Update 01/26/2018 After 2 months of usage O can say this is solo good, best bang for the money. Run my games over 100 fps with the RX580 with no issues maxed graphics, imagine what you can do pairing this with a 1080 TI. Highly recommended.

te, so as far as I could tell that did nothing. Can't knock a star off for that though, because at 3.7 it does everything I need it to do, gaming, streaming, and watching videos all at once. Occasionally rendering videos. Wish I could hit 4.0, but I still got more than I paid for. My old locked i7 2600 was . . . well, locked at 3.4, and was worse at everything anyway even with the Ryzen at its stock 3.0.

Idle temps are at 38c paired with a NZXT Kraken x62, gaming and streaming load is a comfy 50-55, and 100% CPU utilization for an hour sits at 75c dead. If I use the stock cooler, those idles are about 5-10c more. I'm not sure whether that's a pro for the Wraith Spire, or a con for the NZXT Kraken. The Wraith Spire it already comes with already comes with pretty lights, but not as pretty as the Kraken's. Is it worth spending an extra 160 dollars for a marginal increase in prettiness though?

Yes. Yes it is.

[edit] I've seen mounted my radiator to the front as an intake rather than top radiator, and my temps were safe enough to push this to 3800 at 1.25v. In fact, it constantly hit 32-35c, which is in fact the lowest it can go since the liquid inside can't get any colder (Southern California afterall). I might try for that 4.0mhz

time. Gaming performance is the only con I can think of. Sure, the 7700k will consistently deliver 20 more FPS... Until you stream, monitor your stream/chat in browser, open Skype, and play a game at the same time. That's where the 1700 shines: consistency across heavy workloads.

Intel i7 5820k btw) so I ordered a new X99 motherboard from MSI. Still no booting passed BIOS even with the new motherboard. The MSI board threw an error code telling me it was my processor. Come to find out, my older gigabyte motherboard fried the 5820k. Seeing as how the 5820k were still going for close to $400 I decided to do an upgrade to Ryzen.

So I went with the 1700 and can say my system is now MORE powerful thanks to the additional cores and threads I gained. The 5820k was a 6core 12 threaded processor, the 1700 is 8 cores 16 threads and it chews through literally everything. Even gaming is better on it. Running benchmarks and testing out my stream on Twitch, I drop less frames and the stream runs alot smoother than on my Intel CPU. I'll likely stick with Ryzen for the foreseeable future. Welcome back AMD!

(I overclocked the 1700 to 3.6ghz for starters, have a watercooler on its way to go further)