AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-thread unlocked desktop processor

The Ryzen 7 5800X at the $170 price point for which I purchased it is an amazing value. It's on the old side at this point, two generations behind the most recent 9000 series and on the previous socket AM4.I already had an AM4 board in my computer with a Ryzen 5 5600 so I only had to the buy the processor. If you're building a completely new computer you should probably go with one of the newer AM5 chips, but if you're like me and you only need the CPU, then it's a great buy for less than two hundred dollars.It's a great gaming CPU, and good for heavily-threaded loads like video editing and 3D modeling, both of which I've dabbled in and found this processor to handle them nicely compared to what I've had previously. It does run a little hot, but I bought a decent dual-tower air cooler (Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO) and it keeps it in the low 80s under a Prime95 stress test which is totally acceptable.Is it a huge step up from my the 5600 in all cases? Not really, but the additional cores (2 more to be exact, which means 4 more threads overall) has definitely benefitted my ability to record and stream gameplay without absolutely tanking the performance which is the main reason I wanted to upgrade in the first place. It also does seem to make the games perform a little better, I didn't think to make an exact frame-for-frame comparison before putting in the 5800X and reinstalling windows. I know for a fact though that the performance while streaming has improved very noticeably, I used to lose about 30-40% framerate when I would hit "start streaming" in OBS, now it barely goes down 10%, even less in some games.Like I said, if you're buying all the parts for a new computer (CPU, motherboard, RAM, etc.) then you should get a newer one if you can afford it. But, if you're already on AM4, 16 threads of Zen 3 for less than two hundred bucks is a steal, especially when it cost almost $500 when it was first launched.

I had to get this one because I damaged some pins on my 5700X, this cpu is very reliable and has great speeds, it runs hotter if you compare it to my previous cpu but once undervolted you can drop those temperatures a bit, I'm currently using this one with the Nautilus AIO and the max temperatures I get when playing games like MHWilds or The last of us are 75. I really like this cpu, very stable, no crashes so far after the undervolt.

Bought it and put a noctua nh-d15 dual tower cooler on it, and it got all the way down to 50 degrees Celsius.Highly recommend10/10

I have had this CPU for around exactly one year now. Normally I do all my tech reviews fairly early but I wanted to really use this chip, overclock it, game, and do lighting editing as well. To start off my full system is a Ryzen 5800X, Asus X570-Pro board, 32GB of 3600mhz G.Skill CL16 memory (4x8GB), EVGA G3 Supernova 850 watt 80+ Gold PSU, EVGA RTX 2070 Super GPU, Cooler Master NR600 Case, Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black Edition CPU cooler. I have two Gen 4 NVMe drives and 4 normal sata SSD drives. My case is filled with all Cooler Master Masterpro ARGB high CFM airflow fans. I’m also using an internal wireless card as well as my particular x570 board doesn’t come with onboard WiFi. My reason for stating all this is the airflow and cooling in my case is exceptional. I have one of the highest airflow cases, with some of the best fans, one of the best CPU coolers, and I’m using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaunt paste which is hands down the best CPU test for overclocking and temps in general imo. Stating all this because YOUR temps may be different than mine as well as your results. To start of with the chip I’ve not had ONE single issue with it so far after a year of use. ALL I have done to it after installing it in place of the Ryzen 3600 that it replaced was I enabled DOCP on my memory which is AMDs version of XMP and I enabled PBO on my chip with the max limit set at 200mhz. That it all I touched. This chip boosts to 5.1ghz when using 2-3 cores or less easily and even if under full load will still stay around 4.75ghz on all 8 cores at 100% load. In a more realistic load like gaming it runs around 4.75-4.95ghz. Under full load like Prime95 my temps top out around 74C. Idle is around low 30s and while gaming it bounces around 55-65C. It runs super fast and super cool. This is all on air cooling too. When going from the 3600 to the 5800X while every single other aspect of my system remained the same I gained anywhere from 10 fps to over 20 fps on some games. I play at 1440P as well. If you play at 1080P your results will be even better. This is the best chip I’ve ever used and owned. My RTX 2070 Super is overclocked 1100mhz on the memory and 140mhz on the core. On benchmarks my scores beat all stock and even factory OC 2080 Supers. They also beat almost all RTX 3060 ti results as well. I’ve never played a single game where this chip bottlenecks my card ever. Whereas with the 3600 it did from time to time. Especially in games using DLSS which renders the game at a much lower resolution then upscales it. That makes the game way more CPU demanding and in titles with DLSS my fps increase was huge. Absolutely amazing cpu for gaming and you don’t have to do anything other than enable PBO. Gone are the days of manual overclocking to get all the performance you paid for. The chips auto boost themselfs as high as they can go basically all by themselves now. If you have any Zen + or Zen 2 chip and wanna upgrade to Zen 3 aka Ryzen 5000 I say it’s well worth it for gaming. The IPC increase on Ryzen 5000 over 3000 series is huge. Over 30% faster. I’ve included pictures of my setup, CPUz info, benchmark results, MSI Afterburner temperature info after playing Witcher 3 at 1440P on Ultra settings for hours, and many other others. The chip boosts high, runs cool, requires basically no knowledge to get max performance from it outside of TWO toggles in the bios, and at its current price is an amazing value imo. Fast enough to pair any GPU on the market with it if you can find one. I’ve been wanting a 3080 forever now but just no luck. I paid the MSRP of 450 for this chip and don’t regret it at all. No crashes, no issues ever, never breaks 70C while daily use/gaming no matter how long, boosts over 5ghz, and has enough cores/threads if you wanna stream and multitask while gaming you’re good to go. I think AMD did an amazing job with Zen 3 and if you’re interested in the 5800X for gaming/streaming you won’t go wrong. Hope this review helped and if it does please leave a like. Enjoy the pics and thanks for reading.

Got this to replace the very good and great Ryzen 5 3600 one of the best of it's type to come down the pike. Installation went very easy after updating the Asus BIOS firmware (5602) issued this year(2025). I have a b450 board and it was a snap to intstall and set up. Yes I would recommend this CPU with no issues.

Great CPU for my needs, upgrading front an ancient 9900k (yes i went with the red team this build) i paired with a 7900 gre all amd build and it's a powerhouse. 1440p gaming in rust with 8ping i average 114fps which for me is perfect. Used 32gb vengeance rgb ram (i love rgb puke) and it's great no cons so far.