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

Motherboard: ASRock x370 TaichiCorsair Vengence 3200 RAM 32GB500gb WD Black M.2 NVME boot drive2 TB WD Black 7200 HHD storage drive850w 80+Gold Cooler Master PSAMD r9 3900x Stock Speed (No OC)Cooler Master ML240L AIO Liquid CoolerCooler Master H500P Mesh caseFound that the 3900x was not in stock on launch date, 7/7/19. Set Amazon to notify me when available. Got the message hit the 1-click-puchase button faster than I ever have. The item was purchased 7/8/19 and shipped Tuesday 7/10. I received the CPU safe and well packaged on Friday 7/12, a day earlier than Amazon quoted at time of shipment.After updating the BIOS, and running a few final benchmarks on my Asrock x370 Taichi motherboard, I shut down the system and removed my 1800x (this CPU will go into my daily driver system and relieve my r5 1600 CPU slated to be installed in Mom's PC). Warning! Make sure to move the AIO fan wire out of the way of the CPU die and the cooler surface. I had a boot loop and overheating/shutdown session. Was able to get into the BIOS and see the CPU temp at 101c Wow! LOL no wonder it was shutting off. Anyway after seeing my stupid mistake, and re-seating the AIO cooler, the next boot-up took forever and 10 minutes to boot into Windows. Once Windows recognized the CPU and it was running, I started running some benchmarks.Now, I'm not a gamer, so again I am comparing my work load of video editing and production as well as rendering. With one commercial project alone, I my render time has dropped from around 20 minutes to 12 minutes... that's 40% improvement. I can render some commercial projects up to 4 times per work session. I've been very happy with the performance so far, but I'm absolutely blown away by this processor's ability. Rendering a 1 hour 1080p video usually takes an 1h 10m or so. I re-rendered last week's video and that time dropped down to around 42 minutes. My productivity is going to go through the roof.Spending $500 on one single item that is smaller than the palm of your hand can be mind-blowing for some people. It may also cause some heartache and possibly buyers remorse for others. Here's the deal, when you consider purchasing this CPU, you must do some research. Know exactly what you will be doing with your system to insure the performance gain is there. If you are a gamer, this CPU will play every game very very well. While it never claims to be the best in gaming, it is definitely meant for heavy work loads. What an outstanding and simple upgrade for a system that will provide another 4 years of great productivity.As a side note, I have been eyeing up an AMD Threadripper build for the past 9 months. My work requires high core and thread counts which enable the jobs to render much faster. I had already saved my money to invest into the 2950x and was still saving for the motherboard. Considering the fact that I earn a living with my PC, a professional workstation is in order. While it's exciting to order a new "toy", I hope you plan for something like this. It makes your purchase even sweeter when you "just know" you got a great product for a reasonable price, and it will do what you need it to do. Also, looks like I need to update the name of my system now LOL. It's not an 1800x any longer.Cheers!

I absolutely love this CPU (3900X), having come from an old I7-2600K that served me well OC'd way over it's spec. I've got plenty to say about it. It's great at gaming and productivity. Intel can push individual cores higher, but their low core counts and larger process makes them very hot and bottle-necked at multithreaded applications. Be sure to read the warning below about the socket and swapping heatsinks.ThermalsWhen I first got this, I noticed it ran very warm! I read all kinds of complaints on forums of people that couldn't run this cool, or that couldn't OC it. I've been fortunate on both fronts. I went into the UEFI and brought the CPU VCore down to 1.298V while also overclocking to 4.3GHz (all cores). I've never had stability issues with these settings, although I may have simply won the "silicon lottery." The stock cooler is very aesthetic and works pretty well for a stock cooler, but I swapped out the CPU cooler for a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition, which brought the top temps down by ~10C under load, which I think is pretty respectable.WARNING!!! If you apply a heatsink to this CPU, and then remove it, there's a very high chance that the CPU will pop right out of the socket, glued to the heatsink and in the process bend pins. Bent pins on this processor are *VERY HARD* to fix (at least tedious to bend back without breaking off). The socket retention system on the AM4 socket compared to Intel's is complete garbage!!! I had bent about 3 pins pulling my heatsink off after just a little wiggling of the heatsink on the surface of the CPU by pulling off the heatsink while the CPU was still stuck to it. Yes, the retention arm was still down, and yes, I ensured it was installed correctly before putting on the heatsink. This is just a quirk of this socket. If removing the heatsink, very carefully wiggle it around side to side to try and get air in-between the CPU and heatsink so it doesn't rip out the CPU from the socket. If you're impatient, you probably could just pull the heatsink straight up with the full intention of taking the processor with it, and then lay the heatsink with the processor straight up for removal, but I really wouldn't recommend it (unless that was a last resort).Over ClockingI wouldn't say I'm an expert over-clocker, but I've overclocked my systems for sometime, so I can at least give some starting advice. First, two things kill your CPU faster than anything else: heat, and over-voltage. There are a dizzying array of settings that can be played with in today's UEFIs. The ones to pay attention to are: VCore, CPU ratio, DRAM FCLK, and DRAM voltage. This is a CPU review, so let's stick to VCore and CPU ratio. My advice is to try lowering the voltage on this chip first! This is to reduce the heat put out by this blazing hot blowtorch. I dropped my to VCore 1.298V. Once you've verified that you can boot at whatever voltage you've dropped it down to, now try and overclock by changing the CPU ratio from the stock 3.8GHz to something a bit higher, like 4.3GHz. That's what I've been running with great stability. If you're going for pure performance, then you're going to want to stick with the normal VCore voltages and then push your CPU ratio, but you'd better have a great cooling solution that can handle the extra heat this will produce. Good luck!