AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler with X570 AORUS PRO WiFi Gaming Motherboard

The cpu is fast and effective as advertised.The only thing i hate about any of it is the light up fan.I do not need wizz bangs and bling to have my pc running.And the light from it is so annoying i had to put something over the case window to block all the light.Keep in mind, i just bought a case, and the rear fan glows also.Otherwise i love the cpu itself and well worth the money.

The first one that I received had the processor missing in the box, just the cooler. Someone working for Amazon got a bonus in their pocket working that day. Amazon sent me a replacement without any problems. It has been running fine for the last 2 years now.

I can have multiple tabs open, play a demanding game & have my DAW open running with OBS recording & more all at the same time. I don't do all that at once but you can. 5/5

Bought this over the 3800X because of reviewers like Steve Burke who showed that real-world performance was 1-2% difference. It has a lower TDP than the 3800X which has almost nothing to do with power consumption so I don't even know why they emphasize that in marketing materials.--The Wraith Prism cooler--Main thing to really review here is the stock cooler which is awesome. I've never kept on a stock cooler. I did with this CPU. With good case cooling you can get to within 100mhz of max these chips can OC (before going into the Twilight Zone) with the stock cooler. It also looks really nice too. I put down some Noctua NT-H1 that I had instead of the included compound.Comparison benches of the cooler on various sites and YT channels show that it performs on-par with 3rd party air cooling. It even comes within 5C of the Noctua NT-D15. This was great to see because I cannot find my Hyper 212 EVO adapters anywhere. It's been sitting on an Intel chip for the past 5 years. That right there saved me about $40. The bad thing is it's LOUD. With a large tower cooler a variable speed fan is not really even necessary. I kept my old 212 EVO quite cool with up to +1.2GHZ OC at a constant quiet 1200 RPM with a 120mm. That's where a tower cooler will really benefit you.--RGB--The RGBs on the cooler look nice but I need to use the USB 2.0 header in order to get full use out of it because the 12V LED plug they also include is not for ARGB, so all I can do with it is control fan lights with static, breathing, and color change. The rings and AMD logo will just sit on default. Because of this I can't sync it through with my motherboard's software (Gigabyte Fusion) if I want all the RGB options. I don't know why they didn't make it compatible with 5V ARGB, which would allow our motherboard software sync and have more control. RGB/LED really needs standardization if companies plan to continue that route. Probably not AMD's fault here. It's a nice addition.--Overclocking--No point in getting an unlocked CPU without getting some free performance out of it!Overclocking is... interesting. I'm familiar with Intel OCing but AMD Ryzen is a different beast. Intel is pretty much: "If you have the cooling, keep jumping up the voltage." This yields in really good OCs on Intel, well past 1GHz over stock for everyday use. AMD has mostly automated the process. The OC is enabled by default through Precision Boost (not the same as Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO)). The difference between PB and PBO is that PBO will raise the motherboard's power limits but it DOES NOT raise the CPU's PB thermal throttle limit. PB is an algorithm that will adjust each core clock until it reaches some magical limit. AMD hasn't published the thermal numbers of what that limit is. But it's far and away better than an all-core OC which is terrible on Ryzen 3000 series. Out of the box it gets 4.225 GHz for me under load which is close to that 4.300 threshold where many people start seeing instability. Temps approach 60C there. Not bad for a STOCK cooler. Use PBO to get a little more (maybe). In addition you could drop some voltages and get really cool with only a minimal clock loss in PBO (I was doing 4.190) at 55C max. You can OC the oldschool way if you want but don't expect a significant performance increase, even with liquid nitrogen. The biggest benefit for manual overclocking is power efficiency and a less sensitive clock changing. The AMD Ryzen Master software is nice and allows for different OC profiles, such as Gaming which will only activate in games.--TL;DR--TL;DR: Incredible and beautiful stock cooler, but is a jet turbine. The default-enabled Precision Boost will not be far from max these chips can really OC to. Basically a set and forget OC if that's what you want.

I purchased this AMD RYZEN 3700X CPU for my first AMD build, since I feel that this (or even the AMD Ryzen 3600) are the sweet-spot for people not interested in throwing a ton of money at a new desktop build, or overclocking hardware in general - but still having a system with robust performance capabilities.11/18/2019 - I assembled my new desktop system this last weekend, and all the hardware meshed together & booted up just fine on the first try. No issues to report, other than installing a fresh Windows 10 OS & all the SW extras from scratch is a pain. After getting the new Windows 10 Home 64-bit OS installed & set up on the SSD boot drive, I was able to take a look at a few things. On default BIOS settings (no overclocking), the new 3700X CPU scored 4781 on the Cinebench R20 CPU benchmark. My previous 2015 Intel i5-6500 system build scored 1296 on the same test last week before I decommissioned it. My 3700X idle CPU temps in the Corsair ICUE 220T high-airflow case (4 fans) is 33-34C average (25C (77F) ambient room temps). A one-minute full-on stress test benchmark on the CPU took it up to 68-69C maximum. Everything seems to be running normally thus far, though you will need to tweak/adjust the CPU fan curve settings yourself in BIOS because the default ones had the CPU fan spinning up & down unnecessarily in the routine-task 30-50C range. I just set my CPU fan to run at a constant/quiet reasonable 50% speed for all temps up to 50C & then start slowly ramping up from there as needed in those rare extra-load circumstances. I also have my 3 front 120mm case fans running at a constant 50% & the single rear-exhaust 120mm fan at 60%. Works great.KNOCKING OFF ONE STAR - My only real complaint with this AMD product is that not everyone likes tacky, obnoxious RGB lighting all over the place in their PC builds. The Wraith fan should come with it TURNED OFF by default & only allow people to turn it on if they wish via the extra cable that comes with it for RGB software controller purposes. KNOCKING OFF 1 STAR for AMD not having a simple OFF switch for the RGB on the CPU FAN housing SO IT NEVER COMES ON. The RGB is annoying as hell & there is NO WAY to have it OFF 100% from power-start to power-shutdown. Fan works great other than that though, lol.UPDATE 11/25/2019 - I have come across some non-fatal MSI BIOS and/or AMD Driver issues related to the B450 chip-set (or Ryzen 3000 Series operation in general) that I am trying to work through with regards to initial start-up/booting in Windows. Shame that such a great new piece of hardware (this CPU) is being hobbled by immature/buggy BIOS and/or drivers on the part of AMD or MSI.UPDATE 11/27/2019 - I went ahead & flashed the motherboard BIOS with the latest MSI build, which is 7C02v35 (just out of beta today & now official). I also installed the latest release 11/25/2019 AMD B450 chipset drivers (1.11.22.0454) directly from the AMD site over the top of the older MSI version chipset drivers from the MSI site. In addition, I updated my NVIDIA GPU drivers to the latest version, instead of the older ones that Windows 10 automatically installs when you boot up your new Windows 10 installation for the first time. Everything has been working picture perfect since I did all that.Hardware specs for my latest 1080p gaming & home/office productivity PC build:- CASE: CORSAIR ICUE 220T RGB Airflow ATX Mid-Tower (Black, x3 RGB Fans Removed) - FAN(S): CORSIAR ML120 PRO 120mm Premium Magnetic Levitation PWM 4-Pin Fans (4 Total - 3 Front Intake & 1 Rear Exhaust)- PSU: SEASONIC PRIME Ultra 650W 80+ Platinum 140mm Compact ATX (SSR-650PD2)- MOTHERBOARD: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (ATX Form-Factor), Ryzen 3000 Revision Board w/Expanded BIOS- CPU: AMD RYZEN 3700X 8-Core 16-Thread w/Wraith Prism Cooler (Using Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad 40x40mm)- MEMORY: KINGSTON HyperX Fury 32GB (4x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 CL15 DIMMs (HX432C16FB3K2/16 x 2)- WIFI ADAPTER: ASUS AX3000 Next-Gen WiFi-6 Dual Band PCIe Wireless Adapter (PCE-AX58BT)- GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 TI SC ULTRA GAMING (06G-P4-1667-KR)- INTERNAL BOOT/SYSTEM DRIVE: INTEL SSD D3-S4610 Enterprise-Class Series (SSDSC2KG480G801) 480GB SATA 2.5- INTERNAL SECONDARY DRIVE: WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE HDD 500GB SATA 2.5

It has been working fantastically for almost 2 years!

I was running Ryzen 5 on Asus gaming system.

Received the product before the scheduled delivery date. But one of the product was completely damaged, seal was broken and it was already been used cause the thermal paste was applied and washed away from processor. And the heatsink damaged, fan was separated from the heatsink as you see from the image.

Ryzen 7 3700xNon starò a scrivere di prestazioni o benchmark, di queste cose se ne trovano a valanga in rete.Voglio invece scrivere di ciò che mi ha inizialmente confuso e rassicurare coloro che ne acquisteranno uno, o che confusi quanto lo ero io, cercano eventuali risposte anche nelle recensioni.Già dal primo avvio da bios, la prima cosa che salta agli occhi è il suo Vcore da 1,44V apparentemente spropositato, tanto da sembrare sbagliato. Una volta caricato il sistema operativo, utilizzando qualsiasi programma di monitoraggio, noterete dei picchi assurdi da 1,5V anche in idle. Ho letto una marea di forum e discussioni a riguardo, e quasi tutti, arrivano infine alla stessa conclusione. Il vostro 3700x non ha nessun problema, come dice la stessa AMD (ho letto ciò nei forum ma non ho mai letto il comunicato ufficiale), questi Ryzen sono programmati per comportarsi così.A quanto pare, per dirla molto in breve, se lasciato tutto in automatico da bios, il Vcore è relativamente ad alto voltaggio ma basso amperaggio, con l'aumentare del carico di lavoro del processore, aumenta l'amperaggio e di conseguenza si riduce il voltaggio, mantenendo un rapporto corrente tensione, atto a garantire le massime prestazioni, ma sempre entro i limiti di sicurezza del processore. Ho letto di molti che preoccupati castrano il processore, dandogli -0,15V di offset, cosa che inizialmente avevo fatto pure io.Le frequenze appaiono altrettanto anomale, in idle, non le vedrete scendere sotto i 3,5GHz, e basta muovere il mouse, per svegliare il boost, e farle salire a 4,4Ghz.Un informatico su un forum, descriveva i comportamenti del Vcore e delle frequenze in idle, con un'analogia molto semplice e chiara. “Questi Ryzen, si comportano come un pilota su un auto sportiva al semaforo del via. Continua a dare colpi sul gas per tenere i giri del motore alti, mantenendolo pronto e reattivo al momento del verde”.Il problema per molti, è che questo comportamento può diventare alla lunga fastidioso, sopratutto perchè si ripercuote sulle temperature e sulle ventole.Anche in idle, la temperatura può oscillare di 15 C° in 2 secondi, e vista su un grafico, appare come un dente di sega, con bruschi aumenti, e più lente discese nel tempo. Con il mio dissipatore Noctua NH-D14, la temperatura, oscilla tra i 30C° e i 40°con picchi fino a 60C°, ma leggevo di persone che avevano più o meno lo stesso andamento anche con raffreddamento a liquido.Il Noctua per fortuna è silenziosissimo e non percepisco le variazioni di velocità delle ventole, mentre le ventole del case, le ho tutte pilotate da un fan controller esterno, quindi non reagiscono in automatico alle temperature.Ovviare a questo problema è comunque molto semplice. Basta aprire le “opzioni risparmio energia (di Windows)/AMD Ryzen Balanced/risparmio energia del processore” e ridurre del 1% il “valore massimo prestazioni del processore”, portandole al 99%. Io ho ridotto anche il valore minimo al 98%, essendo come valore predefinito il 99%.Questo elimina l'effetto dei “colpi sul gas”, bloccando il boost e stabilizzando Vcore, frequenze, temperature e di conseguenza anche le ventole. Personalmente non l'ho provato su programmi o lavori gravosi per la cpu, ma sebbene questo espediente blocchi il boost in idle, o su programmi banali come firefox e vlc, nei giochi si attiva comunque e senza aver riscontrato cali di fps.Nella prima parte della foto (a sinistra), è possibile vedere “i colpi di gas” sulle frequenze e l'andamento a dente di sega delle temperature, anche se le uniche applicazioni aperte sono quelle per il monitoraggio. Da metà foto verso destra, tutto stabilizzato riducendo il processore dell'1% come sopra descritto. La temperatura della stanza era tra i 18C° e 19C°.Una volta capito, mi ci sto trovando a meraviglia e lo consiglio senza indugio.Non dò 5 stelle perchè potevano inserire un altro profilo meno reattivo oltre al “Balanced”, evitando così, di far passare le giornate sui forum a molte persone come me. Chi sà, forse lo inseriranno in futuro.23/11/2020Per chi invece è interessato alle sole prestazioni, aggiungo una foto dei test in Cinebench R20 con PBO attivo e soli +25MHz sul MaxPBO.Con gli ultimi bios 2802 della Strix X570-F, il PBO restituiesce buoni risultati per tutti quelli che come me non hanno le competenze o la voglia e il tempo di fare OC manuale.Sulle schede madri Asus, è in oltre presente una nuova voce nel menu dedicato al PBO, "PBO Fmax Enhance", la quale una volta abilitata, porta il boost in single clock, al valore pubblicizzato e oltre, valore pubblicizzato che come risaputo non veniva raggiunto su molti Ryzen 3000, il mio compreso, il quale si fermava a 4,375 GHz.L'attivazione del PBO, paradossalmente riduce anche i picchi di tensione in single core, i quali non arrivano più a 1,5V , ma si fermano a1,48V - 1,49V e questi vengono raggiunti molto raramente e senza ulteriori espedienti come quello della recensione.09/12/2020Il momento tanto atteso è arrivato!Con i bios 3001 rilasciati da asus questa notte, sulla mia scheda madre X570-F, le temperature sono finalmente stabili in idle e su carichi leggeri senza alcun espediente.Preciso solo che ho fatto prove con il PBO abilitato , perché da quel che ho notato, il mio ryzen ne beneficia a 360° e senza aumenti di temperature nell'uso quotidiano.Dopo un anno di soli miglioramenti, posso ritenermi così soddisfatto da portare il mio voto da 4 a 5 stelle.

*UPDATE*I have found overclocking to 4250 with 1.3v being optimum on both temps and performance. Obviously it'll depend on motherboard and memory, but it's only 5-10oc hotter than the 2700X now. I do however get the odd crash in WOW but it's OCCT stable after an hour /shrugAlso note: the boost clock frequency AMD state is sadly for ONE CORE ONLY, you might get 2 or even 3,but not all - which is why PBO gives better results, basically though some cores can be 100mhz+ less than advertised boost and thus trying to manually clock to those is impossible... We're buying binned 3800Xs here.There's quite the riot at the moment as intel claims it's boost speeds are all cores and so we're AMDs on the 1000 and 2000 series, so not sure why they've gone down this route now, but it leaves a sour taste in your mouth regardless!*ORIGINAL REVIEW*Everyone was expecting 4.5ghz and intel beating performance after the success of the 2700X, dropping down to 7nm was going to be a game changer, and it has, it's pushed people towards Intel again. Let me explain.My 2700X @4.2ghz has been rock solid till recently, anyway, 30-40oc desktop, 50-55 gaming.The new CPU comes and I plop it in after nicely cleaning the hell out the water block with Tim cleaner - a proper job, with some kryonaut bobbed on, 55oc bios temps, odd, hit windows - see 60s get confused.Shuts down, rips off the cooler, cleans and reapplies expensive kryonaut on. Boots, 55oc..poggers.Long story short, cpu runs hot, so hot there's no argument for intel vs amd for temps now.Performance wise, still slower than a 9700k, but it's closed the gap.A pain to cool, be lucky if you hit 4.3 all cores.. Bearing in mind my 2700X was stable at that but the temps were too high.So I leave PBO on and have it at stock.. Run a ICCT Bench and my cpu hits the low 80s, suddenly drops to 75oc,and then goes back up to 80s and then boom black screen.Reboot and bios reports overheating cpu.. Pogchamp.So TLDR, Its quicker than last gen but 10-20oc hotter, it uses more volts, PBO overclocking better. Runs higher vcore on idle than load.Would i recommend this? Not unless you wanted PCIE4 for drive speed, or unless the 9700k is out of stock.I have a h110i GT at the front of a phanteks enthoo luxe (stripped) with 4x fans push pull on the rad (3x akasa sp fans), photos above, it's cool in there good airflow so it's not a potato cooler at fault here.There's rage rant all over reddit and amd forums, feels like we're still beta testers!

Bought 3700x as a replacement for my Ryzen 5 1600 and put it in my ASUS Prime B350-Plus running the latest BIOS (Version 5007). Out of the box the 3700x hits the max boost of 4.4GHz when not all cores are needed and when all cores are under load mine settles at 4.1GHz. Idle temps do seem to bounce around somewhat with it constantly settling between 36c and 43c and under load running Prime 95 the processor settles around 62c. Of course it is hard to show any sort of performance increase over the R5 1600 without many benchmarks etc but take my word for it the Ryzen 7 3700x is worth the investment.

Ryzen 3700xMontado en ASUS Crosshair VII y con 16gb de gskill 3600, voy a valorar lo que me ha parecido este procesador.En si ha dado un buen paso en comparación al 2700x que es el que tenía anteriormente, de media sobre 10/20 fps a los juegos que normalmente juego, no entrare a valorar con otros juegos que nunca he usado, en multitarea la verdad que también he notado algo de mejoría respecto al 2700x.En cuanto a compatibilidad con la memoria, de momento no he tenido ningún problema en ponerlas a 3600, también decir que justo me ha llegado cuando han sacado el micro código AGESA 1.0.0.3AB para Asus, pero también me he encontrado con algún, pero, que ahora los comentare.Hacer OC ahora mismo con las bios que hay es bastante absurdo, saca bastante mas rendimiento en modo auto y con el PBO, pero también tiene algunas cosas que no me han gustado, por ejemplo el Voltaje se dispara, AMD ya ha salido diciendo que es normal, pero para mi gusto demasiado alto, tiene picos que casi llegan a 1.5v, luego las temperaturas dentro de Windows si no se activa el modo Balanceo de RYZEN son bastante altas, estamos hablando de una media de 50º y eso que voy con liquida custom, con la actualización del chipset y el modo balanceo la cosa ya cambia, esta en idle sobre 38º, en full carga alcanza sobre los 70º también por el alto voltaje que hay, espero que en poco tiempo mejoren este aspecto como en las anteriores generaciones.En cuanto si vale la pena coger la plataforma X570, en mi opinión por el precio que tiene si no es que necesitas el PCIE 4.0 mas vale coger una B450 o X470 y el dinero que sobra invertirlo en otro apartado.El apartado que menos me ha gustado, también hay que decir que depende del fabricante ahora mismo, es en el apartado de BIOS, apenas puedes tocar muchas cosas, dado que a la mínima ya no arranca, lo mejor a día de hoy estando como están la BIOS que se tienen que pulir es dejarlo en modo AUTO el apartado del procesado.Resumiendo, me parece una gran procesador y AMD ha vuelto hacer un producto muy competitivo, pero con precios ajustados, aun no hace ni un mes que han salido y bueno creo que las bios las tienen que pulir aun bastante, espero que para setiembre ya estén bien pulidas y poder aun exprimir mas el potencial de este procesador, a medida que vayan mejorando iré subiendo que tal va la mejora.EDITO:Justo ayer sacaron nueva BIOS y nuevo código de chipset, ahora ya he podido tocar parte del overclock, decir que en el tema voltajes aun me hace extraños o no mide muy bien la temperatura pero con el tema de OC en BIOS ahora va perfecto, he conseguido poner en nada las rams a 3600 con cl 16-16-15-15-32-42 y uns subtimings bastante bajos, el procesador lo he subido hasta 4.3Mhz con un voltaje de 1.280v no obstante las temperaturas me siguen exactamente igual, solo bajan las temperaturas a rangos normales cuando el procesador lo dejo en stock y si PBO ni nada, el stock del mismo son 3600Mhz todo lo que pase de allí las temperaturas se disparan, supongo que tienen que pulir aun mas los microcódigos y las bios, pero de momento van bien encaminados, cuando pongan otro cambio volveré a editar.