Can be found on Sale. Lots of overclocking headroom. Excellent gaming performance even at higher resolutions and refresh rates.

Can struggle to work with some RAM / MB combos.

I would not buy it for over $200 (go with the non-X instead, or up to the 5700X or 5800X), but when heavily discounted it is the best value you can find out there.

Plenty powerful for gaming, multitasking and everyday tasks. It handles anything I've thrown at it thus far, and does it on a timely basis. I have the 5600x undervolted and overclocked, which has resulted in a performance boost and lower temperatures under heavy load.

None to speak of.

Having the 5600x for 10 months now, It's a nice upgrade from the 3600 processor, and I do notice the difference in performance.

Easily one of the best and most efficient CPUs you can get. I did PBO overclock @4.7 GHz (Max CPU Boost Clock Override --> 50 MHz) + undervolt with "All Cores" at Negative 30.... WOW! Nice performance boost and temps dropped by 10+ degrees which is INSANE. For more on this OC and undervolting, search up on YouTube "Overclock Ryzen 5600x Undervolting and Boost increase" for the tutorial video.

The prices are still not so good. Though I got it for $316+tax on BF 2021 with the 30% beat price-match in MemEx Hamilton (great price), it is still going for $350 on sale in most other places and have never seen it go below that in the last several months. Otherwise, it's a flawless CPU and highly recommended!

A huge upgrade from i7-6700K that I owned for 5 years. Finally getting max performance on 1440p 144Hz with Radeon RX 6800 XT! It's easily one of the best CPUs in existence for gaming.

Super efficient, 65W TDP never seen it exceed 75w. Stays cool easily. With a nh-d15 (yes overkill idk) in an itx build 25-30 C idle, 60-65 C load. Because it is so cool it is easy to make a rather silent pc. Fast, real fast.

Wraith stealth, not a bad cooler but if you don't have good air flow or are building a compact build (like I did) this will not be enough, not to mention loud because it is constantly ramped up during games.

Great cpu, comes with a pretty bad cooler.

65W TDP 7nm Very efficient processor

Stock cooler

I purchased this as part of a custom build. Processor is very strong and at an excellent price point. I paired it with an aftermarket cooler - esports duo. Runs at ~29 deg C idle, and ~57 deg C under torture tests. Even with Alder Lake released, I still feel super confident in my decision to jump over to AMD for this build (first time ever).

300-400 fps in Overwatch at 1440p. Half the heat & power of an equivalent Intel cpu. soldered integrated heat spreader. Includes CPU fan.

Had to wait a long while for it to come in stock. Included CPU fan isn't quiet at full load. Included fan maintains high temp at full load.

Due to the chip shortage I thought this was going to be a compromise until the 12 core chips come down in price but this has been so impressive that I'm not going to upgrade for a long time. Equivalent 8 thread performance to a 2700X, but 50% more frames in games. I get 400fps in overwatch during free-for-all and 300+ during team fights! Now I get to cry because my poor gameplay is all my fault but at least it pairs perfectly with my Geforce RTX 3080. Bolted my custom loop water cooler to it with a 480x60mm radiator and corsair water block and the fans don't have to turn on under light load. While gaming the radiator fans run at about 30% to maintain 40 celcius. When running pi 95 it takes an hour for the heat to build up enough to run the fans at 80% but it never gets hotter than that. Downgraded from a Threadripper 2950X and honestly, 8+ cores for this new generation is overkill in most situations. I can still run VMs, run containers in linux, etc, and it's only 6 cores because the per-core performance is insane in this thing.

Noticeably faster than a 3600x: about 20% faster running batch image processing jobs. RAM at 3866 stable through several runs of Memtest86.

Well, you know, the price.

This is a good upgrade from a 1600x or 2600x. As an upgrade from a 3600x, IDK, maybe ego is involved.

FAST for gamers! Easy Overclock to 4.85 with PBO overcocking Max 65C temperature underload with Prime95 @ 4.85Ghz with Corsair H100i AIO. with vSoc @ 1.125v and 1.4vDimm I can get 1:! Fclk @ 1900mhz with 3800mhz ram on a 3600 G.skill Trident Z Neo (2x8gb).

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This is the 2 gaming PC I build for myself after about 8 to 9 years use of the Intel core i7 2600K @ 5.2Ghz Love this CPU. Best Value/performance!!!

A few days ago, I finally got my Ryzen 5600x, I'm using a Gigabyte Aorus Ultra gaming V1.0. This is a x470 board, I had already installed the beta bios (F60c) that supports the new 3rd gen Ryzen CPUs. I replaced a 2700x with this 5600x. Holy cow, what a difference a CPU makes, I'm running a 1080ti and this CPU really helped my 1080ti have new life. VR is very demanding on both the CPU and GPU but I didn't realize how much so on the CPU alone, nothing else in my system has changed but the 5600x. I get much better VR performance with both my Valve Index and Oculus Quest-2 over Link cable. Here are a few examples using the 3 versions of VRMark. Orange Room ..... 2700x = 8565 ....... 5600x = 14116 Cyan Room ........ 2700x = 4020 ........ 5600x = 8001 Blue Room ......... 2700x = 2588 ........ 5600x = 2924

None I can see, I used the Wraith Prism cooler from my 2700x instead of the pathetic Wraith Stealth included with the 5600x (C'mon AMD, why such a crappy cooler with such a wonderful CPU?) The temps stay low, I've seen mine boost and stay at 4649mhz under load and if I remember, the temps stay in the 60s.

Continued from Strengths: These are impressive gains for just a CPU swap using the same EVGA 1080ti. So far, the Gigabyte beta bios has been rock solid, only thing it doesn't want to run is AMD Ryzen Master software due to having a 3rd gen Ryzen on a x470 board (Originally Ryzen 5000 series wasn't supposed to be able to run on a 400 series motherboard), so it's a matter of time before AMD fix this issue with Ryzen Master. Summary: If you are using a older Ryzen CPU, this is a amazing upgrade, I am blown away by this CPU. I am seriously blown away as to how much this CPU has increased my performance in VR while the rest of the system remained the same including my 1080ti. For anyone on a previous Ryzen gen, this is a great upgrade, if you are using a 400 series board, make sure your board manufacturer has a new bios that will support the 5000 series cpu and flash your bios before doing the cpu swap. :)

Outperforms or close to intel, 65w Tdp, best 6 core processor you can get.

Low quantity

Worth the backorder