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.

Upgraded from a 1600x, than to a 5600x. My 5600x CPU one day decided to stop working. This forced me to purchase a new CPU. The RMA process for AMD was super easy. I am keeping the 5600x as a backup. Going from mostly the AM4 Ryzen 5 series to the Ryzen 7 5800x is a huge leap depending on the applications you require. The horsepower this CPU gives you under load and multi-tasking is insane. For what I do, this CPU is overkill but the price is just too good to pass up.

This CPU does run a bit warmer than the 5600x but not by much. I have a 240mm AIO cooler from ID Cooling and it keeps the temps around 41C - 80C.

My 5700X bit the dust a bit before I purchased this, and so far it works great! Although I have a couple things to bring up. This CPU is *HOT*, like really hot. If you plan on using this for gaming, or streaming, you’re gonna need an AIO cooler to keep the temps in check. The Arctic air cooler I had didnt last long before the cpu reached 92 Celcius. If you need a budget option, I’d recommend DeepCool’s LS series. The 520 works well, and it fits in most mid-tower cases. Arctic has their own as well, although I prefer the DeepCool fans. Corsair has one too, though it’s pricey. Trust me, it’s worth it to have the fastest AM4 CPU currently available.

Unless I'm missing something, I can't change the number of eggs I gave, and I was really waffling between 4 and 5. 5 would be more appropriate, but there you have it... I think from a budget standpoint, a 5600 makes more sense, and from a performance standpoint, a 5900 might be more your speed. I decided to split the difference but I legitimately wonder if the AMD fanboyism doesn't over-hype the MOAR COARS MOAR THREDS thing. I went for a 5800 hoping I'd end up with a better binned piece than whatever I'd get buying a 5600. I think 6 vs 8 cores matters a lot less than people think it does. If, like me, you aren't comfortable running a CPU at 90C, then you can either change the thermal limits in your BIOS, or you can just never monitor temps. I installed my waterblock with the outlet and inlets swapped, and fixing that blunder saved a couple degrees, but that didn't explain the 65C spikes while doing basically nothing and the 80C spikes doing moderate stuff. It turns out, this CPU does everything in its power to run as hard and fast as it can, and it is literally designed to handle 80+ temperatures. It doesn't slow down until it hits 90. It runs hotter on a single core of Prime95 than it does on a full 8 or 16 core load, as it will boost the heck out of 1 core for single threaded loads, and run twice as hot for that extra 10% boost. And, it's VERY good at throttling itself for protection. It has no qualms about hitting 90C, but I haven't seen it go over 91C a single time under any circumstance. Get a good cooler for this, since good cooling directly means less thermal throttling and you will see better performance. If you can, set a very shallow fan curve so your fans don't spike between 40% and 100% repeatedly, because the temperatures on this chip are very spiky. In my case, I got reasonably quiet fans for my radiators, set a 60% duty cycle at 40C and an 80% duty cycle at 80C, and I'm pleased with the result. I picked up a 2x16 GB 4000 MHz 16-19-19-39 memory kit and the XMP settings worked right out of the box, booted, survived some Prime95 and some gaming, except for the tens of thousands of WHEA errors. I was able to drop down to 1900 MHz and instantly cleared out all the errors. I got excited about getting a golden sample, but I'll settle for silver. Haven't mucked around with overclocking yet, but I am looking forward to it. It's a very different approach and feels a lot safer than turning up the voltage knob and the speed knob in tandem and hoping the long-term longevity doesn't suffer.