AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

Amazing. Simply amazing.

16 cores is awesome for work and games. But it runs hot and has a lot of temp spikes. Get a great water cooler for this one.

From playing a game at max settings, to running a memory debugger and an SQL Database inside of a virtual machine and NOT EVEN going above 25% usage while doing all of that, this thing is a beast. THE beast.

System: MSI Tomahawk B550 MB, 128 GB RAM, 2TB NVME SSD workstation - not a gaming rig. Unexpectedly required BIOS update to be happy with the RAM (May 2021) but afterwards runs smoothly. Overclocked CPU and RAM using MSI standard options. System has been chugging away on a CPU-heavy data analysis exercise for more than two days straight, running at <80C with an air-cooled system. Runs circles around an equivalently specd five-year-old XEON server-class machine (20 cores, 40 threads, 128 GB RAM) at my office.

Finally arrived on the 18th day. Absolute beast. Latest bios update released the day I received it solved a memory issue which otherwise would have made this useless on Gigabyte X570 Ultra motherboard. Make sure you have atleast F31J bios on this motherboard installed with all the lastest software (Ryzen Master and Gigabyte utilites you use) before installing. If using Clock tuner Ryzen (CTR) disable and uninstall, not supported yet. Not sure how I got lucky to snag one but I did. Amazon shipped it from Brazil to fulfill the order. Slow, late but delivered so props to them. RX 6800 XT? Not much luck on that front.

I was upgrading from an old Ryzen 5 I bout three or four years ago, and this was right on the money. I honestly couldnt ask for better.

Be careful, I had to return a version of this because I eagerly clicked to buy the little icon for Adorama - even though its posting on the 5950x, its selling the 3950x.

Had this processor just over a month so Amazon wouldnt let me return it, had it in a brand new ROG Crosshair VIII Dark hero and in less than a total of 6 hour uptime while playing a round of Apex the PC crashed never to Post again. Have to RMA with AMD what a horrible nightmare its been. Did everything right and trouble shot it to hell,no go.buyer beware AMD is not all its cracked up to be for its price point.

Works well. Doesnt run as hot as I was expecting, but Im also running a 360mm AIO.

Evern since AMD started putting out these 16 core chips Ive been hooked. Great performance, fast chip.