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

I get computers rather infrequently, so when I managed to finally get a graphics card that was way more than I needed, I decided to future-proof with this to match. WAY overkill for me, and I probably shouldnt have spent the extra over a 5800x. I cannot load this down, even with multiple games running across 3 screens, plus cad modelling and whatever million browser tabs I left open. While I probably wouldnt recommend this CPU, it makes me very happy anyways. Heres hoping it lasts me as long as my old core 2 extreme did.

The item arrived in a good shape

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.

The final boss of desktop processors, today.

Used to build Intel based HEDTs, but switched to AMD with the 1st gen Ryzen Threadrippers. AMD changed the game and gave us more cores when Intel kept to 4 and over charged and just has been giving us the perf gains per gen that we used to expect. This is my 4th AMD build using Ryzen, I can’t justify Intel in builds given the AMD lineup. This thing is a beast, and can’t believe AMD has done a 16 core CPU that isn’t Threadripper for consumers. This thing is overkill and the price shows AMD has recognized its market position so value isn’t as great as with the 1st gen Ryzens, but more than happy to let AMD enjoy the price premium for ushering in the true high multi core count era. And finally injecting competition into the x86 market again.

before you install make sure u flash your bois for the 5k series cpus other wise it wont boot. your welcome

I upgraded from a 7700K. The last of intel’s “we have no competition, therefore we are going to remain complacent” processors. I bought this after the launch of the 5800X3D and chose it, because I have a GPU bottleneck and could probably use the extra cores going into the future. The 12900K absolutely has better single core performance, but the two things that made me choose 5950X, the fact that I fell victim to intel’s complacency. Second, the longevity and performance gains of the AM4 socket from Ryzen 1XXX to Ryzen 5XXX. I’m running this alongside a 3080Ti in a meshlicious package and I couldn’t be happier.

Didnt read description had to wait for thermal paste CPU works for its purpose.

I did not go wrong buying this proc, itll last me for quite some time.

AM4 no issues drop in replacement from 8 cores to 16 cores... nice.