AMDRyzen™ 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

Very fast processor! The fastest I have ever had. I would recommend a better cooling system then a fan, as the processor does seem to run up sometimes during game play. I do have a very good cooling system but I should upgrade it in the short term soon. I have currently 64GB of RAM and do some really heavy gaming. The processor is very stable I haven't had any problems at all with stability, problems, and I program many applications as well. Visual Studio C#, HTML, SQL Server, and I use all Adobe products. My motherboard is a Rog strix B650E-F Gaming Wifi. The memory capacity is 128GB on this motherboard.

Very great cpu, fast load times and speed. Easy enough install.

This chip is an absolute beast! I bought this for my new gaming build, and it can easily handle anything you throw at it. With the right voltage optimization and cooling, it can run pretty cool as well.I considered getting the 9900X before getting this, but I’m glad I got the extra 4 cores. The 32 threads means I can play pretty much any game I want without having to worry about the CPU being the bottleneck, and I can run VMs and still have CPU resources to spare.AMD has really outdone themselves with this chip, and I couldn’t be more satisfied with it! The price might seem high, but it’s worth every cent.

Thrilled with the performance. I do light gaming and some productivity but I've always gotten Ryzen 5 level chips. Decided I wanted to lean more into the workstation side of things a bit.This thing is a beast. Im an Astrophotographer and having a ton of threads is very nice for processing hours of data in short time.Also realized a lot of the games I play are a lot better in performance with 32 threads instead of 12. I play a lot of simulation / city builder games not so much super fast paced high FPS titles. City skylines 2 for example I can run full simulation speed now in a large city. With my 5600X I couldn't run more than 1x speed with a town of 300,000 or more.It does run hot. If you test in cinebench, expect the temps to top out at 95C with multi core tests. This is with a 240aio and fans at 100%. I'm lead to believe this happens even with 360mm rads.It was pulling 220w of power during the test, what do you expect. In gaming it hung out around 65-75 pretty nicely though.

Just like what everyone else says, it is a fast cpu that gets the job done. I have had no issues with it. A bit slower than a 14900k on single thread apps but faster on all thread apps. Runs reasonably cool in my case with the 360 AIO from BeQuiet!

Great processor for gaming and workstation. I use this for some gaming - and Revit / Autocad. Furthermore when using high computational structural analysis software very fast. Highly recommended

This is a brilliant processor at a reasonable price. So why not 5 stars? Well the reason is the 9950X3D. Yes, it carries a considerable price premium, but it has the same base clock speed (4.3GHz) and the cache is able to mitigate the limitations of intra-chiplet communications. The result is that, in business applications, the 9950X3D is approx 2% faster than the 9950X. But the real gain comes in gaming where the 9950X3D is, at time of review, simply the fastest gaming CPU on the market. Hence the premium price.I installed my 9950X on an ASUS ROG STRIX X670E A-gaming motherboard with 32GB of high performance DDR5 memory. There were no issues configuring the board or loading Windows 11 Pro. I thoroughly recommend using a water-to-air heatsink for this CPU and motherboard combination. The problem is that most modern gaming cards seem to use through-card cooling, which means hot air is blown direct onto a chip-mounted heatsink! Not good news! A water-to-air cooler, mounting the fins at the front or top of the machine, solves this issue. The 9950X (or X3D version) needs good heat dissipation!Overall, this is a cost effective CPU that offers fantastic performance and is easy to setup on the 670E chipset motherboards. Memory ran at the recommended sweet spot without problems, and provided you employ just two sticks of RAM, you should have no problems.AMD CPU's have the momentum from Intel. I was even able to buy a 9060XT (16GB) at close to the RRP!Can I recommend this CPU? Absolutely. Even doing data science and perform mathematical transforms on Very Large Datasets, I see no slow down in performance after several hours of maxing-out the cores. Would I buy the 9950X3D over the 9950X? Yes, but unless you are a hardcore game, the 9950X is the better choice when you're on a budget.

I was trying to hold out for the 9950X3D but with the short supply and very high demand going for $800+ from scalpers I decided to go with an open box 9950X for half the price and I'm so glad I did!I've been live streaming on Streamlabs simultaneously playing the Doom: The Dark Ages and this CPU handles it with ease and never gets warmer than 60C!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟FIVE STARS HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!