AMD 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.

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 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 CPU has handled everything I've thrown at it. 4k 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'm using a no-name AIO cooler with 3x120mm fans); really, it's more CPU than I need even with the aforementioned tasks all at once. 12 fast cores, baby! This certainly isn't the least expensive CPU around, but neither does it command a premium price. It's well worth what I paid for, and I doubt I'll need to upgrade anything for several years. AMD is definitely winning the desktop CPU game here, and for someone wanting a strong, all-around PC I can't think of anything better for the money.

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.

Nice unit, crunches through everything being thrown at it for a simple long term email and video box. When it's not doing anything important, it's power consumption is about 25 watts. Hard to complain about that!

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.

One beast of a cpu for gaming and productivity its amazing cane in amazing condition as well

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Sehr schneller und guter Prozessor, man muss selber wissen, ob man ihn haben will. Könnte ich mich nochmal entscheiden hätte ich eher ein X3D Modell gewählt, da mein Haupt Aufgabe gaming ist.

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.

Demasiado TOP, es el mejor cpu que he tenido, va super relajado con todo lo que te puedas imaginar si lo usas para un uso casual, si editas y exportas igual va bien, aunque obviamente no tanto como uno de 16 nucleos, su temperatura es bastante buena de unos 50-55°C para su tdp, gran procesador

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