Ryzen™ 9 9900X 12-Core, 24-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

If you are not familiar with Amazon Vine, it is basically Amazon trading free* products for honest reviews. You see a lot of Vine reviews that are cookie cutter and based on templates. I aim to make my reviews honest and non-cookie cutter (other than this intro and disclaimer). * These items are not actually free as Vine members pay income tax on the items they receive. Therefore, I will never order something from Vine unless I actually intend to use it. I think this is important for readers to understand because it means I will never order an item just to provide a fake five star review to a company. If I review something as good, it means I actually enjoyed using it or it fills its intended purpose correctly. Items that don't meet my expectations will be reviewed accordingly. Why I ordered this item: My AMD 5700x was having a hard time keeping up with my audio production needs. This CPU went on sale so I jumped on it. Likes: * This processor offers pretty extreme performance. Twelve full-featured cores is absolutely bonkers on a CPU that was on sale for $370. * This thing absolutely churns through Ableton. I can have 30 tracks with multiple plugins and effects on each one, and this CPU does not break 10% usage. I don't know how that is possible considering how hard the same song was on my old 5700x. It's the most powerful CPU I have ever used. * I have had no operational issues with this CPU at all. Everything on my new PC runs smoothly. Games are glassy and productivity apps are rock solid. No likes: * This CPU can get hot. I knew that going in and bought an adequate cooler. Still, it's something to consider. Would I pay full price for this product: I would pay the $370 I paid again because this processor is awesome. Final thoughts: I'm very happy with my choice on this processor. I had a lot of options and almost went with an X3D model, but I don't game much any more and I knew this would be better for audio production. One word of advice - if you are considering this CPU vs an Intel option, know that AMD processors have full-fledged cores while Intel uses Performance and Efficiency cores. Efficiency cores are not as powerful as the full featured cores AMD offers, so in multithreaded applications in general, AMD offers a more powerful experience when comparing similar core counts to Intel.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is plenty fast for my needs — handles everything I throw at it with ease. But coming from an old i7-7700K (which was quiet and cool), I'm not used to these sharp temp spikes to 95°C under load, even with water cooling and stock settings (no overclocking!). Fans get loud because of it. Had to limit voltage and tweak a bit to cap it at 75°C — much better now and stable. That's my only real gripe; otherwise, it's a beast. Paid a solid price for this unlocked desktop processor — worth it!

amazing CPU AMD cooked with this one 12 cores 24 threads with such little power draw that you can keep it cool easily. and all the cores are performance cores not cheap "efficiency" cores like the intel cpus use

This thing is a beast - admittedly it was more than I needed when I got it, but I'm pleased so far. I do some gaming but moderate at best - this is paired with an RTX-5070 and the CPU isn't holding it back. The AM5 has pins in the socket, so installation is easy. The main reason for getting this is that do a fair bit of video compression and transcoding, and it's great to be able to run those intensive tasks and still have some CPU overhead where I can use other Windows utilities at the same time. I'm using a cheap air cooler, too, and temps are not an issue. I haven't overclocked this, but that'll be a potential future trial.

This processor was used with a Gigabyte AORUS B860 Elite Wifi7 motherboard in a new Windows 11 Pro build. Performance is great, the new system feels very fast and benchmarks are as expexted for this processor, with excellent bang for the buck. There have been no hardware or software performance or stablility issues of any kind, and a decent air cooler is more than sufficient to keep this 120W TDP processor from running hot.

This beast is truly remarkable. I was in the process of building my next gen computer and I decided to go with AMD over Intel this time. I had just purchased an X870e Nova motherboard 96gb of RAM and just installed this 9900x chip, but my graphics card didn't come in, but I still wanted to test a game. So, I plugged in my 3070, put Control on Ultra 2k settings and actually managed to get 40+ frames. Anyway, after installing a 7900XTX, this thing is a beast!!!! The best part is, I can play any game on Ultra, right? But, this thing is literally only set on the default clock speed of 4.4ghz and can be tweaked to go up to 5.6ghz. It's overkill right now. I has handled everything I've thrown at it. 2k gaming, VR, AI workloads, high-bitrate video encoding, streaming, and (almost) all at the same time. I've had no stability issues or signs of excess heating ( I am using the Noctua NH-U12A chromax.Black); really, it's more CPU than I need even with the aforementioned tasks all at once. 12 fast cores, baby! This chip will give you peace of mind if you're a gamer wanting to keep up with the crowd and all of these high spec requirements in games now a days! Thanks AMD.

When I purchased this chip it was on sale, so I got a great deal on it. After installing and using the pc for a while. I'm confident I'm an AMD fan. I have an I9 12 gen, and I know this is a bit newer than that gen, but this chip is just really fast! I have noticed a difference between these two PCs, and AMD is way faster. I still like my Intel, but I switched to AMD as my main PC.

This is perfect for mid-tier GPUs. This, with a 5070 Ti can run 32B parameter models. It is perfect for both AI workloads, and gaming. The heat is a bit intense so don’t cheap out on an AIO. I would not recommend overclocking it since it’s not an X3D. It is the perfect heater. It is not waterproof so do not put it on your head in the bathtub acting like it is a brain chip. That will break it.

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I had an Intel core i7 14700kf but 14th gen intel is very unstable and crashes with everything so I switched to AMD it runs all games and programs well and it’s good for streaming but I do wish it had more cores for a Ryzen 9 when the Intel Core i5-14600K which is basically the lowest end cpu intel has from that gen (no one would buy an i3) has more cores but it’s easy to cool if you have an AIO and it’s powerful.

I purchased a 9900X ASUS X870E ProArt Mobo and a Noctua NH-D15 G2 cooler and I do a lot of video encoding with Handbrake,also anyone reading this review that has never used AMD make sure to get Ram that use's Hynix memory such as G.Skill or Team Group and 6000 with a CL30 to Cl32 at the highest,AMD CPU's I have found work best with Hynix Ram and tight timing such as CL30 or CL32,the Flare X5 is really good and cheaper Ram. My stock temps were 70C when running Handbrake to encode video,Handbrake will put more stress on your CPU then what a game will for sure. To get my 9900X running cooler I just went into the Bios under PBO Precision Boost Overdrive and lower my PPT/TDC/EDC to get my temps down a lot and hardly hurt my performance at all,when doing what I'm describing by adjust PPT all your doing is lowering the total amount of Watts the CPU can get at under 100% load. These are the stock settings for the 9900X's stock power settings. PPT 162 EDC180 TDC120 My Bios settings are. PPT135 EDC165 TDC105 What you want to do is start with m numbers and adjust from there is wanted,you want to run HWinfo64 in sensors mode only and watch the EDC and TDC numbers when running Handbrake and it's a free program,you want the EDC and TDC to be at 75 to 80% maxed out when running Handbrake so they have a bit of headroom,there's no such thing as headroom for PPT because whether it's set at 88Watts or the 162Watts and you run a program like Handbrake the PPT will always be at 100% according to whatever Watts it's set at. I was able to get my temps down to 55C is where it runs at most times and the odd time it gets to 58C depending on the video file type I'm encoding,when running at 55C that's a 16C difference from with an air cooler. I was getting 1108FPS encoding speeds with stock Bios settings and EXPO1 enabled and with my Bios settings I get 1083FPS with EXPO1 enabled as well,it takes about 3 to 7 seconds longer to encode a 40 to 48 minute video with my settings over stock. I changed my Bios settings because I wanted to run an air cooler and not have to worry about running a liquid cooler,I know the AIO's are made pretty well but I don't want to be the poor sap that has his AIO leak and fry my expensive PC.

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Veio lacrado bem embalado, funcionando certinho. Eu queria ter comprado o 9950x3d