I know that in a few short years my "fast" system will eventually become a paper weight, but for right now, this is the best you can get short of the very newest intel chips. Before this I had a Ryzen 5700x, which was a solid processor, but it it's dog slow compared to this. 16 cores and 32 threads mean I can be copying files over the network, be installing dual scans on my hard drive for viruses, and playing games on my computer, all at the same time. Boot is twice as fast, and all my applications load fast and windows 11 is actually snappy and a breeze to work with. Not only that, but the advertised 4.6 ghz rating on the chip is misleading because if you are doing any kind of multithreaded application, the chip stays at around 5.2ghz. The main issue with this chip is the supposed heat range being high compared to other chips, but I've been gaming for a while and haven't hit the "optimal" temperature for the chip yet at 95 degrees centigrade. Having said that, I threw a darkrock 4 cooler on it, and it seems to be working just fine. I go with air coolers if I can, and having a GOOD cpu cooler is pretty much mandatory. Here. Let's put it this way: This computer will heat your room during winter. All in all I am very happy with the performance, and the price is reasonable.
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Let's address the elephant in the room, it can and will run hot! Your best options to cool the Ryzen 7950X is getting a 360mm or 420mm Arctic Liquid Freezer II AIO. I paired this CPU with the 420mm variant, and I was very satisfied with the temperatures at idle being between 48-56c. Underload in more realistic workloads and everyday use, the temperature delta is much less dramatic than some professional journalist may conclude. I've experienced temperatures ranging between 70-85c with CPU clocks on average being 5.2ghz all cores. Boost speeds do indeed hit the target 5.8ghz but it's for a short while and always coupled with that 95c temperature threshold.Aside from the temperatures, this Processor absolutely performs as advertised! I've had zero issues daily driving the 7950X with my combination of work & gamer related tasks. I am very optimistic for this processor and the potential performance gains as motherboard vendors, AMD, and Microsoft optimize the 7000 series. In my opinion, if you choose to go this route then you have to go all in on the support cast as well. Do not cheap out on RAM, get yourself some low latency DDR5 to accommodate this processor accordingly. I opted for the 32gb Corsair Dominator 6000mhz XMP set that is c36 spec.As a final reminder, this is as 16 core processor and intended for heavier workloads compared to the other processors along the 7000 series stack. If you're gaming 90% of the time, I would consider waiting to see what the future holds with 3D vCache variants next year. I'm not saying the Ryzen 9 7950X isn't good at gaming, it is an absolute monster in those sorts of tasks, but it does come at a premium. It's a premium that I feel is only justified if you plan on using it for something in addition to.
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Let's address the elephant in the room, it can and will run hot! Your best options to cool the Ryzen 7950X is getting a 360mm or 420mm Arctic Liquid Freezer II AIO. I paired this CPU with the 420mm variant, and I was very satisfied with the temperatures at idle being between 48-56c. Underload in more realistic workloads and everyday use, the temperature delta is much less dramatic than some professional journalist may conclude. I've experienced temperatures ranging between 70-85c with CPU clocks on average being 5.2ghz all cores. Boost speeds do indeed hit the target 5.8ghz but it's for a short while and always coupled with that 95c temperature threshold.
Aside from the temperatures, this Processor absolutely performs as advertised! I've had zero issues daily driving the 7950X with my combination of work & gamer related tasks. I am very optimistic for this processor and the potential performance gains as motherboard vendors, AMD, and Microsoft optimize the 7000 series. In my opinion, if you choose to go this route then you have to go all in on the support cast as well. Do not cheap out on RAM, get yourself some low latency DDR5 to accommodate this processor accordingly. I opted for the 32gb Corsair Dominator 6000mhz XMP set that is c36 spec.
As a final reminder, this is as 16 core processor and intended for heavier workloads compared to the other processors along the 7000 series stack. If you're gaming 90% of the time, I would consider waiting to see what the future holds with 3D vCache variants next year. I'm not saying the Ryzen 9 7950X isn't good at gaming, it is an absolute monster in those sorts of tasks, but it does come at a premium. It's a premium that I feel is only justified if you plan on using it for something in addition to.
Aside from the temperatures, this Processor absolutely performs as advertised! I've had zero issues daily driving the 7950X with my combination of work & gamer related tasks. I am very optimistic for this processor and the potential performance gains as motherboard vendors, AMD, and Microsoft optimize the 7000 series. In my opinion, if you choose to go this route then you have to go all in on the support cast as well. Do not cheap out on RAM, get yourself some low latency DDR5 to accommodate this processor accordingly. I opted for the 32gb Corsair Dominator 6000mhz XMP set that is c36 spec.
As a final reminder, this is as 16 core processor and intended for heavier workloads compared to the other processors along the 7000 series stack. If you're gaming 90% of the time, I would consider waiting to see what the future holds with 3D vCache variants next year. I'm not saying the Ryzen 9 7950X isn't good at gaming, it is an absolute monster in those sorts of tasks, but it does come at a premium. It's a premium that I feel is only justified if you plan on using it for something in addition to.
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