AMDRyzen 9 7950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

This is an excellent multicore processor with caveats. There are numerous reviews of this processor on the web so I'll just give my thoughts on it. The biggest caveat is the heat. This chip gets hot and without a good cooling solution the chip will hit 95 Celsius very quickly. For cooling I went with a 420 aio and it keeps the cpu in the 60 to 80 Celsius range. I game mostly but with enough productivity to make a 3d v cache not the best solution for my needs. I game on a widescreen so my resolution is more GPU bound anyway. For gaming this processor works just fine, I've had no issues or complaints about performance. My GPU is a 4080 so it pairs well with this level of cores and threads. My only other observation is it's not a quiet pc solution. To keep it cool the fans really have to ramp up so if that's a bother then you might not like this processor. For a good beast of a processor I highly recommend it.

Once I got past the problem of Amazon sending me an AMD CPU box that had the actual CPU stolen out of it, I finally got ahold of this monster and replaced an elderly Skylake build. Let me tell you, Zen 4 CPUs are... incredible. It's just jaw-dropping how much these pure 16-core/32-thread beasts can do, especially with a proper PBO configuration. Unlike the current-gen Intel consumer parts, which seem to be focusing on packing in weird "efficiency" cores and uneven performance curves, a 7950X delivers consistent, constant, gargantuan throughput across all 32 threads.I've done everything from gaming under Proton/WINE, language model merging/inference/quantization, and software development on this system in the 3 months I've had it. The 7950X has never stopped impressing me with how *incredibly* potent it is. There are workloads I used to rent AWS compute instances (at almost $2/hr!) to run, and I can take care of them in minutes on my home machine now. And gaming? Pfft! ZERO problems. Turn everything up to Ultra. I'm not going to have to think about CPU power for another 5 or 6 years, easy.I was an AMD fanboy going back to the AMD 386-20, and I've owned more AMD CPUs than Intel over the decades. But the last time I owned an AMD CPU was in the mid-2000s, an Athlon FX-57 (the last, fastest, single-core Athlon 64). Ever since then, I've been waiting for AMD to ship a "good" architecture. That finally came with Zen 3, but by the time I was ready to buy... Zen 4 was here. And BOY AM I GLAD IT IS.Long story short: if you're even *thinking* about buying the best of the consumer Zen 4 CPUs, you found it.BTW, this is the better of them, between this one and the "3D" one, for applications that are going to stress all the cores simultaneously. The way the 3D thing works looks a little bit faster on benchmarks, but when you are really putting the thing to the test, you'll be glad you went with the real thing.

Great CPU at a great price. I do a lot of video and photo editing so I needed the best of the best at the time that I purchased this. Still kicking to this day and dominating my workflows (and matches when I have free time to game).

So get a decent cooler to keep your high end Ryzen 9 7950x running cool.

THIS INCREDIBLE piece of computing tech has NEVER let me down. It has gotten me through my first year of Digital Art School, and been there as I took what I learned, became a Fortnite Creator and Full-Time livestreamer and created vast digital world's, while streaming it all in 1440p 60 on YT, don't believe me? Come and watch I am easy to find. Pair this with a Tuf Gaming 4070ti Super Oc 16gb, in my opinion better than any 4080, and alll first time gamers and streamers need without having to blow an extra grand on a 4090. THANK YOU AMD! p.s ChatGPT let me know I have used my PC 5,475 hours in the last 12 months without issue

She's a monster! What else can I say? 16C/32T with an LGA design simplifying installation, and includes an IGPU. It's never struggled on anything I've fed this CPU and scores quite high in the synthetics. I'm able to keep the temperatures under control with some tuning, BIOS updates, and an air cooler that is made from the skin of a magic unicorn, and under full load, it still doesn't hit its thermal limit of 95C. It's not an X3D chip, but that's not what I wanted. This CPU should handle anything the average consumer can do during work or play without a problem, and was priced right. It hangs quite nicely with the 9950X and makes that upgrade from this CPU not even compelling unless you are coming from something much older. Power efficiency seems to be there, and it shuts up quite nicely at idle and throttles down a lot when not in use making for leaps and bounds in energy efficiency compared to older CPU's. You'll get a LOT of performance for your dollar if you get this 7950X

Works well. Multi-tasking games with browsers open on multi screen, no slow downs. The motherboard I bought it with, Asus Tuf Gaming b650 plus, has an option to auto OC the card. It OC'd pretty easily to 5.5 ghz but it runs kind of hot. The cooler I bought with it is ok but maybe I needed a better one.With OC, it can max out at 95 C under full load. At 5.5 GHZ, it needs a highly efficient cooler. It is decent though, I don't max out the card at all and the full load was only with the stress test. Gaming doesn't even use above 30% of the CPU utilization even with multi-tasking other applications and browsing with 20 tabs of Chrome open.