AMD - Ryzen 7 3700X 3rd Generation 8-Core - 16-Thread 3.6 GHz (4.4 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 Unlocked Desktop Processor

This is for the AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X 65 watt 8 core 3.6 Ghz CPU. First of all I am not sure why they rate it at 3.6 Ghz as it will boost to 4.4 Ghz for a short duration and then settle in at a constant 4.1 to 4.27 depending on your board and how agressively you set the boost level in the BIOS. I got it to run at almost 4.4 under constant boost, but it crashed after a restart and when I tried to go higher than 4.4 it won't boot. I am not the greatest overclocker, but my experience has been the normal for many review sites who are expert overclockers. The concensus is that AMD built this to come out of the box with all guns blazing and the fact that it is a 65 watt CPU doesn't give it as much overhead as a 105 watt Ryzen. Note: it is rated at 65 watt TDP, but that is at 3.6 Ghz. When running a brutal stress test such as Furmarks CPU Burner it will pull 11 plus watts per core and a total of as much as 111 watts for the whole package. Thus the reason that it has such a high sustained boost, is that AMD has given it the fuel it needs to do that, and therefore trying to overclock this fast out the gate horse is really not going to be worth the effort. Having said that it is an economically efficient CPU. Under normal production usage it constantly pegs needed cores at 4.4 Ghz while pulling about 50-55 watts and will run at about 30 watts under light usage. With that said it is a strong performer. I bought it because I need all the speed I can get out of Photoshop and it delivers. I paired it with an X570 board with a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 M.2, 512 GB PCIe 3.0 M.2, two 1 TB SATA SSDs,three 4TB HDDS and 3 external drive HDDs. I have 32 GBs of DDR4 3200 RAM, an RTX 2060 Super and a 750 Watt Bronze 80 Power Supply. For those who only have one 8 Pin CPU power cable on your PS, don't worry about X570 boards having an 8 pin and 4 pin CPU plug. It runs just fine with just the 8 pin plug. I didn't try the Wraith heatsink. I installed a 240mm AIO liquid cooler. I have it in a well ventilated case that is in a compartment in my work desk and it runs at 40 degrees C at idle, about 55 in Photoshop. It holds 63 degrees C in Prime 95 and 70 degrees C in Furmarks CPU Burner. How does it perform? I have a unit with an i7 9700 with 32 GBs of RAM and an RTX 2080 Super. Running Puget Systems Photoshop benchmark test it posts an average score of 860 points. I pulled the 2080 out of it and put it in the new build with the Ryzen 3700 X as GPU performance influences the test. I need to note that the PCie 4.0 capability of the 3700 X with my PCIe 4.0 M.2 and the X570 board registers a 5500 MB/s SSD read speed vs the 3300 MB/s read of the PCIe 3.0 of the i7 system and that probably had some benefit. Running the same Puget Systems benchmark the Ryzen 3700 X system scored 967 points. This is the most responsive system that I have had to date. My previous systems have been an i7 6700K and an i7 9700. So I think that this is a great bang for buck CPU, especially if you are willing to use the included Wraith Cooler, but I think in order to really get the full advantage of the 3700 X you need to leverage all of it's potential by putting it on an X570 board with a PCIe 4.0 M.2.

I was an AMD guy 10 years ago and eventually migrated to Intel for gaming. Well... after rave reviews, I tried AMD again and have not been disappointed. While Intel's 9700k and 9900k out performed this CPU in over all FPS, it was typically only by single digits in most games. In Cinebench r20, my 3700x out scored my friends 9900k in multi-core processing power. That result isn't typical, but it shows how close these chips really are, and the 3700x is available at a much lower price point. But... what does that mean to you? Overall this means that Intel chips are slightly better for just gaming today but if you do just about anything else in addition to gaming or other than gaming... You should really consider AMD and it's new line of processors unless you're willing to pay the premium for Intel's 9900k for extremely small gains.

simply the best for gaming these days I am completely satisfied!

You can not beat this processor for the price let alone performance wise. Ryzen has really topped the cake with this generation of processors. Precision Boost Overdrive on Auto. Overclocks all cores to 4.325Ghz. Super fast! Super reliable!

I did not go for the 12 core 24 thread. I wanted to upgrade from my 7700k that could handle Visual Basic, Python, Unity, and Java coding. On top of that I do game a lot on my PC plus do some video editing. This was the best bang for my money, and being able to reduce the price by another $40 using my rewards points made this CPU under $299 and that helped me pull the trigger. I paired it with the Aorus Master X570 motherboard and 3600 DDR4 CL16 ram. Temps and speed have been great using out of the box configurations for the CPU. It has been performing flawlessly in all my activities, gaming, production, and general use.

Put this in a Dan A4 case, runs no more than 80c after 20min of Prime95 even in that extremely cooling restricted environment. The performance vs price reminds me of the old 2600+ days when AMD was laughing at Intel. Huzzah!

I've now had this for almost 2 years, and it still works very well. Never had any issues with it whatsoever. It holds up to the test of time!

This CPU is running everything great! It is running really well and even over locked to 3900 MHz and ran well with no issues (I only did it for about 1hr and went back to 3700 as I don’t need it overclocked Like that right now). Installation was simple as well and the brackets made easy install for the cooler.