Review on 💻 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU with Wraith Spire Cooler (YD1600BBAEBOX) by Leonardo Sandoval

I've been looking for this CPU for weeks and finally pulled the trigger last month. Got this on an Asrock AB350m Pro4 board with 2x4GB HyperX Fury ddr4-2400. Running Wraith cooler with thermal paste pre-applied and everything is fast and cool. Had the first try posted and was able to run several memtest iterations. Before I put everything in my case, I checked the temperature right after the test (44c on the CPU). The mainboard was about 8 degrees colder. I have a microATX case with 5 case fans connected to the power supply, so always full power (the thing is under my desk, not very loud for me anyway, and the barely audible fan noise relaxes me) Cinebench is the only time I use a CPU actually running under full load. Even then, the temps on HWmonitor and Ryzen Master only registered in the high 50s. I currently have it overclocked to 3.6GHz at stock voltage via UEFI on my MB. The idle temperature is 33°C and reaches 50°C again when Cinebench is running. Ryzen Master is a cool utility useful for finding the optimal place to overclock. I could definitely take this thing further and make it happen, but I literally never load it to 100%. Even 60% for that matter. I mainly play Cities:Skylines, CS:Source, Civ, various RTS games and batch edit a lot of photos and videos in Aftershot Pro and Vegas respectively. That thing doesn't sweat. I don't understand the need to have the "fastest" processor, even those trying to get this thing over 4.0GHz. Seriously, this thing is fast and powerful enough for whatever games and other programs you want to run. Definitely an outlook for the next 5 years at least. Just buy it and try to torment. It will only laugh at you.