AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler - YD270XBGAFBOX

When re-purposing an old mini-itx I had laying around as linux media PC in the living to be a rose gold glitter bomb gaming rig for my wifes birthday I hit a snag. The connector for the front panel ports had broken a pin, plus it was a bit underpowered to handle much gaming (and NO RGB OMG! lol) so I needed to upgrade it, except the perfectly passable i5 I bought 1 1/2 to 2 years ago apparently is dead to everyone with no decently priced (and literally none at my favorite two vendors) in that form factor. Luckily before I pulled the trigger I realized I could get this and a motherboard for less. Best of all this was such an upgrade that I ended up keeping the 1060 I was going to upgrade since with this chip her primary game looked and played great. Plus the fan is quieter and has RGB which surprisingly looks good in her case and shes actually keeping it on and even playing with the programs where as previously she thought that was for teenage boys playing counter strike lol.

Actually although it is not the latest Ryzen 7x series model. It has an excellent investment for price performance ratio.

great processor. would have been nice if they offered it at a lower price without the cooler but thats okay, ill sell the cooler on eBay. AMD has done it again making a great step up from the first ryzen chips. very happy with the new upgrade.

I upgraded from a 1700x to this Monster of a Chip and I am so happy that I did. My system boots up in seconds. You will not be disappointed in this buy. Also I got the The Division 2 for free, cant go wrong with a great game too.

DO NOT OVERCLOCK TO 4.3 GHz!!! I tried to overclock this processor to 4.3 GHz, and I ended up having to spend hours figuring out how to clear the BIOS/CMOS. This processor CAN NOT handle 4.3 GHz. However, this processor was able to overclock to 4.2 GHz very well, but even at that speed, it still couldnt even run Cinebench without crashing. Overall, though, the CPU is a good bang for your buck and cooler it comes with it does an adequate job at keeping temperatures below 50 C when the processor is not overclocked. Again, make sure you do not overclock this processor to 4.3 GHz, or youll have a hard time.

I have had this cpu for about 7 months now, and I can say that this chip will do about anything. There is no need to OC since it is pretty overkill for gaming. Rendering is amazing, it can render 1080p videos in about half the length of the video that is rendered. All in all AMD has put out an amazing chip! Highly recommended to those who stream, game and edit videos.

Super value for nice speed with good core and thread count.

Working great.

Worked well for five months and then died while at stock speeds in a well-ventilated case with the stock cooler. Recommend using water cooling and motherboard with true 8 phase VRM.

Coming from an AMD FX 8350 this CPU is amazing. Overclocks nicely. Buy one.