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

Great packaging

Installed this CPU on Thursday, Computer ran fine until Sunday evening. After playing Tomb Raider for 20 mins the monitors shut off and the computer never booted again. After troubleshooting and swapping the CPU for a Ryzen 7 the system booted again. Now because Amazon do not have any of these CPUs left Im having to fight with AMD warranty and these guys are about as useful as a chocolate teapot. 3 days of back and forth emails with AMD and they are still yet to actually approve the RMA. Amazons response to this was to buy another processor from the Amazon market place for $600+ and wait till next month to get it , what a joke !

Im going to be honest. I usually blindly follow the Intel brand, granted for good reason (it works), but Ive been hearing how AMD has been catching up and even surpassing Intel in some regards. Im upgrading from Intels i7 3770k. And the performance boost is clear as day especially when paired with the fact that Im upgrading my RAM from DDR3 to DDR4 at the same time. (It has been a while.)

Installé ce jour , excellent processeur, contrairement à ce que jai pu lire , il ne chauffe pas

As a typical PC gaming enthusiast, I am slowly upgrading my system as new components become available (and affordable for me). If you are reading this, you are probably thinking of components that will work without any problems, or maybe you are thinking of upgrading your system and not sure if things will work flawlessly. So below is my before and after setup.

This works nicely, having up to 24 logical cpus available makes a nice difference. Especially when running virtual machines

Acheté pour une grosse maj de mon système vieillissant, je nai pas fait derreur.

I was using an intel core i5 before and all my games ran fine. I decided to increase my cpu power; switched to AMD Ryzen 9 3900x. Every game I play crashes now. Everything is up-to-date, bios, drivers, windows. Overclocking is turned off. Everything should be working fine, but instead every game I play crashes within a few minutes.

It looks like AMD kept their promise, and right now, its hard to justify buying a more expensive intel chip for a few more FPS in gaming, which is about the only thing that intel partially beats AMD at now concerning compute power. Now it comes down to which games you play whether intel is faster or AMD. Looking at the other benchmarks from the other major techs on youtube, Ryzen 2 beats intel (sometimes horribly) in all other aspects (streaming, editing, encoding, etc.) Way to go AMD!

Recently upgraded from a Ryzen 7 1700x to this monstrous cpu, mainly for my Twitch streams. This thing is an absolute monster for streaming. Hands down the best cpu Ive ever owned. For regular gaming, I would advise something with less kick, as this monster is meant more for multi processs such as editing and/or streaming. The ONLY downside to this thing..... it runs HOT. I mean idle temps are in the mid 50 c and I even have top of the line thermal past as well as a sufficient AIO cooler. Unless you have a good ac unit in your house... you might wanna invest in a fan for your gaming room. LOL!