AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Processor, 8 Cores and 16 Processing Threads Unlocked Processor without any Thermal Solution

The Ryzen 7 1800X has been an incredible upgrade for my new photo-editing (and future video-editing) workstation, way above and beyond the i5 I've been working with in my iMac for 8 years. I was worried at first about the higher voltage, but everything has been running without a hitch for over a month, so I expect it to continue past the one-year mark this way. I combined this processor with the ASUS Prime X370-Pro motherboard (X370 chipset for solid expansion, seeing as I expected to need a wifi card, sound card, and capture card in time) and the combo worked perfectly on first boot.I experimented with streaming Fallout 4 at 1080p highest graphics settings and high encoding, with ~25% CPU utilization in OBS, with FO4 only occasionally falling to 45-50 fps. Raw photo editing performance has been fantastic too, with the only bottleneck seeming to be PCIe and SATA write times for huge files. The real test will be with video-editing as I hope to expand into that type of work soon, one of the reasons besides stream transcoding I decided on multicore performance over single-core performance of Intel.Even though the processor was shipped separately from the rest of my parts for my workstation and wasn't set to be expedited, it ended up coming within a couple days, earlier than everything else. That was a pleasant surprise. I definitely recommend ordering from OutletPC, everything worked out so well.Parts used in combination with the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X:ASUS Prime X370-Pro motherboardbe quiet! BK021 Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler Fan32GB (2x16GB) Kingston Technology HyperX FURY Black 2666MHz DDR4Intel SSD 760P Series (256GB, M.2 80mm PCIe 3.0 x4, 3D2, TLC)Crucial MX300 120GB SSDEVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC GAMING ACX 2.0 6GB GDDR5Seasonic FOCUS Plus 850 Platinum SSR-850PX 850W 80+ Platinum ATX12V & EPS12V Full Modular power supplyEDUP Wifi Card AC1200Mbps 2.4GHz/5GHz Dual Band PCI Express (PCIe) Wireless Adapter Network Card

this cpu is an absolute beast for gaming and productivity, even though intel is faster with single threaded performance, i still see the ryzen 1700,1700x and 1800x as the best bang for your buck. performance is great. i did have to exchange my 1800x because it required too much voltage to reach 4ghz across all cores, which i am waiting on now. amd says 1.55v is safe for pstate overclocking, but i wouldn't recommend going over 1.4v for 24/7 usage,for me to get 4ghz it takes 1.45v and that was too much so i see it as defective and exchanged it while i still have time.for people looking for the best bang for your buck and need 8 cores, buy the 1800x. if you don't mind spending alot of time tinkering with bios settings grab the 1700x as it will do 4ghz pretty easy.if you are happy with a 3.8ghz clock grab the 1700 for 269.00, that is an absolute steal for 8 cores and 16 threads.the 1700 is the absolute best bang for your buck, but i didn't want to tinker with bios settings because i simply don't have the time. grab the 1800x, for 429.00 you can't go wrong and ryzen motherboards will support ryzen 7 v2 in the future so all you need is a cpu swap in the future.i dumped intel after 12 years of getting a measly 10 percent performance gain each new cpu cycle, i can bet ryzen 7 v2 will give a much better increase in performance.ryzen also soders the lids on the cpu's. intel gives you generic thermal paste and you have to delid them to get the best performance. i hope to see amd take the crown in the future and let intel sit on the bottom for awhile. good luck on your purchase decision, you can't go wrong.

Coming from a Phenom II X4 that could get to 3.8 GHz on a great day, this is a crazy jump in speed. The last 2 systems that I have built for friends were both i7 7700k, but I insisted upon waiting for AMD. I have this at 3.95 GHz on 1.38V, with 63C under a Prime95 smallFFT load or 57C under a Prime95 blended load under a Corsair 115i GTX with 70F ambient. I was able to get 4.1 GHz Prime95 smallFFT stable for an hour, but this was mostly because I didn't grasp how the voltage controls worked in UEFI and the chip was pushing itself to insane voltages (I saw 1.5-1.6 on HWMon, and all of the other values that it has shown me for voltages have been accurate, temps were 72-74C with +20C offset taken into account). 3.95GHz/1.38 represents my comfort point for a daily driver. Have not been able to get it to POST with memory clocked higher than 2667, though I have a 64 GB kit and have not tried loosening timings or going over stock volts on the RAM. I am running the 4/6/17 BIOS on an ASUS Prime x370 board, and will wait to see what the May update brings before I push the RAM too hard.GF has a 7700k under water (Corsair h110i), and we will put my RX480 in that when Vega comes out. That will allow us to properly OC her rig with the IGP turned off, which should be really interesting for benchmarking the two top of the line desktop chips head to head with max OCs in place.I am getting set up to run a large slate of audio conversion (I use MediaMonkey gold to convert my FLAC collection to store on my mobile devices), and if I can think of a way to post that as a sort of competitive benchmark I will. For that kind of load, this chip really shines. For gaming, a 1600X or 1500X is far more bang for your buck.