When €440 feels good…

I can only get up to about 620. How you push so far?

Using curve optimizer, and a decent cooler. Basically giving it less voltage so it has more power budget to spend on clocks, and ensuring it stays cool throughout that process. One other setting, I'm forgetting the name of at the moment to raise the max clock ceiling. RAM is at 3600MHz and Infinity fabric clocks at 1800MHz

Bought mine and was on the fence about going with the 5950 but I'm more then happy with the 5600 it's a great chip

How is it possible to be confused as to wether you should buy the cheapest one or the most expensive one in the lineup? Lol

Must... resist... I just bought a 5600X. I will wait lol.

5600X is a solid CPU especially if it’s your 1st build. If you’re not doing any CPU heavy work, no reason to get a 58/59/5950x.

I have a 5800x and its an animal

I have a 5800x and its an animal

There are no bad products; only bad prices.

There IS truth to this though things like exploding batteries exist.

Some products would need to be priced at a negative (i.e. you're paid to dispose of it).

Wish called and would thank you for your incorrect statement.

I really dislike this saying. Some products are actually bad and should not exist. And if something has to be cheap to be worthwhile, you can't really say it's a good product (i.e "chinesium")

I feel this way about pizza.

Tell that to those early Sandy bridge single core Celerons lol. I might consider using it only if Intel pays me 200 dollars a month to use it

I was a little disappointed that I couldn't get my hands on a "sweet spot" 5600X, but I've gotta admit that the 5800X that I did end up with has been an absolute dream, butter smooth and stable as a rock.

I tried using those two extra cores as dump cores, putting all my background tasks on them, like Corsair ICUE and Acronis backup, stuff that's always running, and it's working reasonably well.

It's a damn good chip, I can't recommend it highly enough, it's price might not be in the sweet spot, but the CPU itself is still pretty damn sweet.

background tasks sit in ram. they dont use many cpu cycles

Is it actually worth using software to manually allocate specific threads for certain programs?

It's a great chip, just not great value compared to 5900X and its predecessor, 3700X.

It's also a small volcano.

Great value for me. Got it on eBay for €403 incl. shipping to replace my 2700x. Best decision I could’ve made. When undervolted correctly it’s a monstrous chip.

Mine idles at 24c in a 21c room and is in 55-65c majority of time in Cod warzone.

Corsair h115i aio

I got my 5900x for 550. At that price point it was worth getting the 5900x.

Go to Google and search for ryzen 5900x temperature problems...

this comment of mine soon received a negative vote, I only said one truth not in relation to the price but to the temperatures. whoever buys a 5000 family cpu has to have a good cooler. these cpus are designed to run normally up to 90 c but as they are so expensive we are concerned and want to keep our investment for as long as possible. at the moment in Portugal are 30c my 5800x idle at 33c and in AVX tests 79c games 65c custom loop.

It's always been a good chip but people always compare in a vacuum and mindlessly parrot stuff.

"why would you get the 5800x for 450 when you can get a 5600 for 300 or a 5900 for 550" well gee idk cus I have 400 and want something like the 5800x but can't stretch even more money to get the 5900x?

As long as you're informed there's literally nothing wrong with it other than vacuum or sheer value analysis with no other use case metrics.

"Why didn't you get the RX 6900 XT?"
"I play 1080p@60fps, all I needed was an RX 6700."
"Yeah, but still, you're a peasant."

Gatekeeping really does bug me, going in all possible directions. I asked r-HeadphoneAdvice to suggest some audio software for me, the first reply was that I should get a DAC, a Digital to Analog Converter, it's a piece of *hardware. * His rationale was why would he suggest a half assed software solution when the dedicated hardware solution is so much better? Unfortunately his advice was entirely unhelpful, because rather than answering my question he chose to make a value statement.

Having the cheapest or the most powerful piece of equipment isn't a flex, having the right piece of equipment is the flex.

I love my 5800X, and I'm super happy for the folks who love their 5600X, it really is just that simple.

The one downsid eof it as a 5800x which I noticed. It gets really hot once when only a couple of cores are boosting. Which is really strange. Because I have lower peak temps in Cinebench than just running a videogame. But then a couple of cores start to touch the 5ghz and with the cores on one CCX it just gets real hot.