Jack
This thing is an absolute monster at rendering. Stability isn't great. I've had to tweak the heck out of my BIOS settings to make it not constantly crap out on me. Now that I have it stable, I get fantastic performance. Considering that the equivalent Intel CPU is something like twice the price, this is absolutely worth the price. I would recommend using a Gigabyte motherboard and RAM 3000mhz or faster.For clarity, this CPU is not the best for gaming. It requires a lot of tuning and settings tweaking to get it to an optimal framerate. This is not a gaming CPU. Definitely do not get it if you're just going to be gaming on your system.
Michael Westcott
This thing is a monster CPU. There's no lag no matter what I've thrown at it unless I deliberately ran something to run up all 24 threads and then try gaming on top of that. Even apps that aren't able to multi thread run great, as each core is plenty fast enough. If you download the Ryzen Master program you can see each core in real time; clock speed, temp, etc. I am so glad to see AMD processors making Intel sweat again.One thing to note, you are going to want a liquid cooler setup for this thing, it's a 180W CPU and there's no way you wanna air-cool that.
Chasse Court
I have had no issues with it, it functions exactly as expected.
Irgend Mann
Bought this because all indications on the page are that it's new. Came with none of the original packaging and has markings from a CPU cooler.