AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Processor (YD160XBCAEWOF)

Pros: Powerful enough to blow the socks off of my old FX-8350, both in single core and in multitasking. It draws less power, produces less heat, and has a much higher thermal ceiling (95 degrees Celsius) than the old Bulldozer core did. This was not a small incremental upgrade. This was a HUGE upgrade and for the price I can't say enough good things about this processor line. And to think...this is just the first iteration of Zen processors! I wonder what Zen+ / Ryzen 2 is going to be like. My Motherboard automatically overclocked the processor to 3.9 GHz without me having to make any modifications whatsoever. Under heavy loads this processor never goes above 48c. I'll be trying for 4.0 GHz later and believe I will be able to easily achieve it. Cons: Didn't come with a stock cooler. Had to get a new backplate for my old AM3+ AIO Water Cooler. Other notes: If you are making the transition from any other architecture then PLEASE READ this information about RAM compatibility. It will save you a ton of headache and trouble down the road. Ryzen Processors scale very well with RAM speeds, both MHz and timings. However, getting anything to run stable above 2666 MHz has been tricky and near impossible for some people. One type of RAM that works pretty well all the way up to DDR4-3466 speeds and at their rated timings, far more reliably than any other, are RAM chips that have single rank & single-sided Samsung B-die memory chip configurations. There are 31 kits that have this configuration that I know of. Yes, those memory kits generally cost more than those that have other Samsung die or SK Hynix but right now the Hynix memory chips are causing all sorts of compatibility problems once you get into overclocking territory (anything above 2400 MHz). I had a "cheapo" kit of 16 GB Corsair LPX DDR4-3000 that after 3 weeks of tireless testing simply wouldn't go past 2666 MHz and would only go that speed at CAS 16. (We're not talking about an old, outdated BIOS here. We're talking about a June BETA BIOS that contains AGESA 1.0.0.6) However, the G.Skill TridentZ Series 16 GB kit works flawlessly and at rated speeds of 3200 MHz at 14-14-14-34 timings. Both kits were on my MBs QVL. The difference? The G.Skill TridentZ uses single rank, single sided Samsung B-die. The model number is F4-3200C14D-16GTZ. The price is high and it goes out of stock regularly now because Ryzen users are aware of it's superior stability when compared to other ram types. Don't have the money to spend on your ram? I get it. Then my recommendation would be to get a solid 2400 or 2666 kit and stay away from 3000 - 3200 kits for a while until the majority of Motherboards have their Hynix compatibility problems sorted out. I believe the Hynix problems will be sorted eventually and if you can settle for running at lower-than-rated speeds for a while and hope / pray for a fix down the road then have at it. But make no mistake, the benchmark tests are very conclusive that the differences between 2666 @ 16-18-18-38 and 3200 @ 14-14-14-34 are HUGE. Do some google searching on this subject before you buy if you need further convincing. If you go the cheap route on memory you are limiting your processor's ability to amaze you.

I've had this 1600X since June 1st, 2017, and it's constantly in use. It works extremely well and handles VR beautifully in combination with my ROG Strix 6GB GTX 1060 graphics card, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and an SSD. I don't suspect I'll have to upgrade my rig again for at least 2-3 years, and the next upgrade will probably be a simple graphics card swap. The cost of getting a Ryzen CPU for the first time is the cost of getting the CPU itself along with an AM4 motherboard and most likely new DDR4 RAM sticks as well. This is not as simple of an upgrade as a GPU card swap or even switching from Phenom II to FX. This Ryzen CPU requires DDR4 RAM to function correctly. It is a massively expensive upgrade that should not be taken lightly. Consider all your options and learn what you need before you start purchasing anything. Ryzen CPUs are awesome! If, like me, you were gaming on some kind of AMD rig from before the FX series, you may have considered switching to Intel because the FX series CPUs overheated like crazy and didn't have much greater of performance than Phenom II CPUs. Ryzen CPUs are a different story. Ryzen CPUs compete with Intel's best consumer level CPUs. After many months of testing this CPU's limits, I'm very happy with my upgrade. This 1600X CPU is also identical to the 1600 model, especially if you plan to manually overclock it, so you could save some money that way. Not only is the 1600 model cheaper but it comes with a decent-looking CPU cooler you can use until you get something more capable of getting temperatures stable for overclocking. Other than that, I like the 1600X very much and find it incredibly productive.

This was a replacement for a Ryzen 5 1500X that took a dump, it is paired with a Asrock B450M Pro4, 32GB of G.Skill FalreX DDR4 RAM, NVIDIA 1060 6GB and Intel M.2 drive and a 2GB HDD. Nothing is overclocked except for the graphics card. Can't sweat it, even with running three full games such as Rust, Fortnite and Ark at the same time while running two different Minecraft servers, Twitch, youtube and ten million other open tabs all at stock speeds. Great value, worked out of the box, really fast, max FPS on a G-Sync monitor on all games. I also have rigs with Ryzen 7 1700 and a 1700X; there is a considerable difference in speed and stability between the 1500X and 1600X, but no discernible difference between the 1600X and 1700 or 1700X. I think I'll get another one for a micro-ATX mini-gaming build as the price is considerably less than a 1700 in price and better performance than the 1500X. It's the perfect "just right" processor right now.

I bought mine a little over 4 years ago, and it served me well for 1080p gaming. I was reliably able to play games at high to ultra settings at 60 FPS. I was able to upgrade to a 1440p monitor with a much higher refresh rate, and it started to show itself as the bottleneck in my system. At the time it was a good buy, but you can reliably find the 5600 online for 140$ USD which would be a much better value. At the time of writing this, the 5600 is actually cheaper.

I would give this a higher rating but the CPU arrived with bent 3 pins making it impossible to install until the pins were straightened.. Straightening the pins is a very delicate process and (for me) required use of a magnifying glass because I'm getting older and the pins are just so small. I believe I successfully straightened them but until I complete the build process and power it up I cannot tell if it worked or not. I've been building computers since the early 80's so I know the bent pins were bent before I ever opened the package because they were on the inner row, where you would NEVER place your fingers while handling during opening the package or installing it Will revisit this review to make appropriate rating change. UPDATED 01/29/2018 I have raised my initial 3-star review to 5-stars. The CPU runs cool at stock speed while providing perfectly acceptable performance. It overclocks like a beast, too. Currently running at 4GHz and I know it will boot up and run stable at 4.3GHz until it gets too hot in Prime 95 due to my use of an AIO cooler with a thin radiator instead of a nice, fat 360mm or 480mm Rad and custom loop. I'm confident that, with proper cooling, 4.3GHz would be 24/7 stable. It already passes Passmark and CPU-Z's benchmarks and Valley, but gets too hot in Prime95. (it runs at 4.3GHz with only 1.45v)

Devastating multi-threaded performance. Doesn't need much of a cooler to keep it happy at 3.9 to 4.1 GHz, since the architecture sips power at those clock speeds. I have my chip at 4.0 on 1.39375 volts of power, and the Scythe Mugen 5 that cools it is about as loud as a mime even under load conditions. Intel has better single-threaded performance, to be sure, but Zen is a server-first process and the power efficiency really shows on the desktop. Sure, you can buy a Core i5-8600K and get it to near 5 GHz, but you'd better consider bolting a nuclear reactor to your machine first. At the above voltage and with all 12 threads fully loaded, the CPU package pulls around 108 watts. That's all. 13 watts above its rated TDP, which means any heatsink more advanced than, say, a solid block of unrefined tin will have no issues keeping it chilly. If you want the maximum speed you can possibly get, of course you'll want an AIO. But you don't NEED one to overclock this thing. Oh, and by the way, you won't need to buy a new motherboard in a few months because the manufacturer suddenly decides to switch a few socket pins around and charge you an extra $150 or more for the privilege. BIOS updates will get you to the Ryzen refresh in a month or so. That, coincidentally, is the only reason you wouldn't want this CPU right now; you're waiting for the Ryzen 5 2600X. Either way, these six-core beauties are the sweetest spot in desktop processors right now and it's only going to get better from here.

Excellent processor with a great price. Better than some high end intel processors. The only issues are with the motherboards since the platform is so new, it will just be a matter of patience and learning. If you already have a good cpu cooler go for the R5 1600x if you don't than get the R5 1600. A lot of reviewers have said that people should get the 1600 instead of the 1600x because it comes with a cooler and because you can overclock it to similar speeds. Parts of that statement are true, such as being a better value because of the cooler. Where I don't agree is in the fact that you can overclock it. As I said, the motherboards are all still pretty new and not everyone is able to achieve the same clock speeds as well as the same ram speed due to the fairly new BIOSs. If you want a faster processor without having to deal with the overclocking and already have a good cooler, buy the R5 1600x. If you are willing to experiment with the bios and deal with overclocking issues or wait for better motherboards than get the R5 1600. Some people might ask, is better than the I5 7600k? The answer depends on what you want. If all you want is to play games at its highest performance and not have anything else open (such as browser tabs and other programs) then by all means get the I5. That was a joke. Although the i5 gets a few more fps on average, the lack of cores restricts you from doing anything else while gaming. Meanwhile with the R5 1600x you will be getting 3-5 fps less than with intel but you will be able to do more at once without having to stress the processor so much. Another thing to keep in mind is that to use a intel K chip you need to buy a more expensive motherboard to overclock it, meanwhile with amd you can overclock the chip (although the process is a little more tidious) with almost every motherboard that's being sold today. In terms of price this is a better value than i5 and i7. And in terms of performance it is on par with both the i5 and i7.

Imagine an Intel CPU, but better in every conceivable way besides the hilarity of their included round, hot, and bad coolers This thing seriously ripped Intel a new one for me. I know there was a lot of fanboys and dishonest press rigging their benchmarks to find a way to get Ryzen to run worse, and the sheer extent that they went to (DirectX 9, 1600x900, two core limitation) really turned me onto this chip in the first place. When you use all 12 threads, this isn't just 20% faster than an equivalent Intel chip. It's literally almost two times as fast... for less money. Not a day goes by where I kill an opponent online only to realize that my 1600X was actually responsible, because their flimsy $200 i3 was stuttering and burning out. AMD saw that Bulldozer wasn't as good as the public wanted, so what did they do? They closed their doors, shipped the 8350 to hold people over, and they hired Jim Keller to help build the second coming of the Athlon 64 (which was on top until Intel committed unforgivable crimes against the free market, such as sabotaging their compiler as discovered by Agner Fog, as well as bribing Dell and HP and others to not buy AMD anymore, and AMD almost went bankrupt). Justice has never been so sweet. Intel recently tried to save face by releasing a Xeon rebranded as an i9, but it's completely missing half the features people want and it's EXTREMELY expensive. Not like 2x the price, though. We're talking low multiples. In five years, we will look back at Ryzen and see that it's responsible for saving the CPU market from permanent doom under the rule of a greedy blue monopoly that doesn't even know what its customers want anymore (I mean, come on! Investing all their CPU money into cell phones only to win one Atom tablet in 2013 was a pretty stupid idea).

Forse è uno dei migliori processori che è entrato a far parte del mercato dal 2017 a oggi. È un 6 core - 12 thread, molto bilanciato, supporta RAM ddr4 fino a 3200mhz, qualcuno potrebbe dire che AMD non sia all'altezza di Intel per quanto riguarda il gaming, mi dispiace, ma da quando sono usciti questi processori non è più così. AMD ha fatto un ottimo lavoro sfornando la serie Ryzen, questa nuova serie di processori è più potente della precedente serie FX di oltre il 50%, consuma meno ed ha caratteristiche davvero innovative. Basti pensare che un FX 9590 8c / 8t viene surclassato da un Ryzen 3 1200 4c / 4t di fascia bassa . Questi processori hanno un ottimo prezzo e ottime prestazioni, Intel è dovuta correre ai ripari dopo anni di piccoli refresh per non perdere fette di mercato. Nel 2018 sono usciti i nuovi Ryzen 2 (Zen+), che sono un affinamento dei "vecchi" Ryzen, con frequenze più alte, processo produttivo 14> 12 e un ipc migliorato del 10-15% e prezzi sempre concorrenziali. I modelli con la "X" della serie 1*** non hanno il dissipatore incluso, la nuova serie 2*** sì, quindi state attenti. La piattaforma AM4 su cui girano questi processori verrà supportata a detta di AMD fino almeno al 2020, ed anche i prossimi Ryzen 3 (Zen 2) gireranno su questa piattaforma. Che dire, finalmente un ottima e valida alternativa ad Intel.

So I ordered this with a compatible AM4 socket motherboard, 2666mhz DDR4 ram (after reading online that the Ryzen 1000/2000 series have some issues with higher clock speed ram). Installing with the AM4 sockets is a piece of cake, there's a small triangle on the processor and on the socket in the motherboard, orientate them the same way, line up the pins with the holes and pull the clip down. Pea sized amount of thermal paste and fit your CPU cooler. Upon installing the first CPU i was getting weird freezes just after, during or before the windows 10 welcome screen. No blue screen message just the PC would freeze, I replaced every other component and still had crashes it was the processor. Amazon sent a replacement the next day and that has been working a dream, i had to upgrade my computer to run apex legends and this processor handles games with ease. CPUs with all the pins straight being faulty is incredibly rare, 0.001% territory but just a heads up if you get as unlucky as me, the freezing during different stages of boot and no blue screen may be the processor at fault like I had. NOTES IF YOU ARE GETTING THIS PROCESSOR; AMD Ryzen 1600x and other x processors do not come with stock coolers, you will need an AM4 socket compatible stock cooler to fit on installation. If you aren't getting an AM4 socket motherboard with XMP ability do not get DDR4 RAM with a clock speed higher than 2666mhz. This processor is a beast for the money and tackles any modern game with ease, the Ryzen master drivers allow you to overclock and tweak the processors performance with ease. Despite getting a faulty processor originally, I still can't recommend the processor enough. The sellers professionalism with replacing the faulty part instantly, crap happens sometimes and I feel like I just got unlucky.

Compré este procesador Ryzen 5 1600X para actualizar un equipo con un Intel i7-920 que ya tenia sus años. El desempeño se incrementó 3.5 veces, la verdad no esperaba tanto, y la relación costo/desempeño contra otros procesadores de Intel es inmejorable.

Ich habe den AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Prozessor und bin wirklich begeistert von seiner Leistung. Mit 6 Kernen und 12 Threads bietet er eine hervorragende Multitasking-Fähigkeit, die sowohl beim Gaming als auch bei produktiven Anwendungen spürbar ist. Die Temperaturen bleiben auch unter Last angenehm niedrig, was ihn zu einer guten Wahl für meinen Kühler gemacht hat. Außerdem lässt er sich leicht übertakten, wenn man die Leistung noch weiter steigern möchte. Insgesamt bietet der Ryzen 5 1600X ein tolles Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis und ist eine hervorragende Wahl für Gamer und kreative Profis. Ich kann ihn nur wärmstens empfehlen!

AMDの新シリーズRYZEN 当時はIntelにシェア90％以上を取られていたAMDが出した逆転の一手 シングルコアではIntelにかなわないものの、多コアや低価格化で一線を画すコストパフォーマンスを見せた。 ゲーム用途では微妙にかなわないが、他クリエイティブ用途などではコスパの良さが光った。(ソフトによっては複数のコアに対応していないなどの問題もあり結構差があった) ここらへんから一般ユーザー向けCPUの多コア化が始まったように思う。 またここ数年CPU競争がほぼなかったので一般ユーザーからすると低価格化や性能向上の面で競争があるのはありがたい。 新たな時代の幕開け。