AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread unlocked desktop processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler

This CPU fan was a dud and when I attempted to remove it, it went ahead and yanked the new 3900 right out of the socket, destroying several of the pins. $400 POS. Whenever I decide to upgrade again Im going intel.

Performance and value for this processor are unparalleled. AMD has finally arrived from there early past. You will not be disappointed with this purchase in the power of your PC when finished.

This thing came out of the box dirty on the top. Looked like smudges of old thermal paste. Hopefully, this thing hasnt been OCd into Oblivion with crazy temps at some point. It had a seal on it so there was no point in trying to RMO it. They would just say I was lying anyway.

Coming from a Core™ i7-6700K system I built in late 2017, which has been super fast and reliable, I realized I needed more performance for editing and exporting 4K footage of my churchs sermons, which at the least are 25 minutes long, and at the most, an hour. Having read about AMDs impressive comeback with the Ryzen processors, I decided to go with the Ryzen™ 9 3900X. This is my first AMD build, so I was very excited for it.

Like most others had to keep looking on availability to purchase. After many days I saw it available and bought it. I installed it in my existing system which features an ASRock x470 Taichi Ultimate motherboard. Updated bios and installed the 3900x with no difficulties. Use with a 280mm AIO so i cannot comment on the included cooler. So far so good, but only time will tell.

Very powerful cpu works great get very hot so get a high end cooler to compliment it

New computer 130 watts and, old computer 210 watts. Wow! And its running cooler on the stock fan.

My first Ryzen and its a darn good one.

Easily 30% increase in single core speed, and more than double in multi thread. Yes, a 24 threaded CPU is 2X a 16 thread CPU. In games that favored Intel that I played, Killing floor 2 and Insurgency saw a massive uplift. I no longer get dips below 100fps I used to get with Zen 1. I can finally stream with SLOW preset and get 0% FPS drop. I can only do FAST on the 1700.

I was not able to hit 1900 Mhz fabric clock, but im satisfied anyway.