Review on AMD Ryzen 3900X 24 Thread Processor by Micha Gabriel Czajko ᠌

Name: AMD Ryzen 3900X 24 Thread Processor
Item: AMD Ryzen 3900X 24 Thread Processor
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

The purchase brought only positive emotions.

1) Top cooling and good thermal paste are shown to him. Despite 7nm. Unless of course the processor will be used for its intended purpose, and not for games.
2) It makes no sense to buy memory with a frequency higher than 3600. There will be no increase, a feature of the architecture. Save money.
3) Many advise buying a good motherboard, but no one has argued why. At least I will sit on an old b350 plus, which I bought for 6 thousand 2 years ago. The performance is completely consistent with the graphs of testers from the Internet. What else do I need? USB 3.0 is, M.2 is, although nafig is not needed. Why do I need a new one?

Pros

I will describe from the point of view of the owner of the eight-core ryzen 5 1600x 1) Cheap for owners of older boards with am4. I have a two-year-old mother asus prime b350 plus - the percentage earned on it and there are no problems. Even boosts work. Total upgrade came out the cost of the processor minus the cost of the old processor. Intelovtsy probably should envy, they have no continuity of sockets and generations. 2) Finally, more or less tolerable performance per core. Boost really raises the frequency multiplier of one working core to 4600. This is my second ryzen, but the first one that successfully overcame core i5 2500k@4.5 in single-core calculations 3) In multi-threaded computing, this is a super advantageous offer. Somewhere even faster than a 1950s 16-core threadripper, and such a joy for $440 with the ability to install on an old mother.

Cons

1) Auto-boost, depending on the quality of cooling and the load, when the cooler radiators get clogged with dust, or the thermal paste dries up, it may stop working. A user who has automatic settings may not know that his performance has dropped. The frequency multipliers will just start to drop. Low and unnoticeable. You feel throttling right away, and if the frequency drops from 4000 to, say, 3800, then you may not notice it. 2) Why is he so hot in idle? Even its idle frequency is 2300, unlike the Hong Kong of the first generation, where it was 1400. For many users, I noticed that the processor warms up to 50 degrees in idle time. 3) Manual overclocking may cause performance degradation in some applications. And it always leads to the loss of single-threaded performance. Even seasoned overclockers from well-known sites have confirmed this with their tests. And the heat starts to grow like hell, not in the horse's fodder. So it's better to indulge and forget. This is not one of those stones that were accelerated one and a half times, those times have passed. 4) The boxed cooler can't cope with serious loads. Who thought to buy a percent first, and save money on normal cooling for the first time - figurines. Firstly, it will howl, and secondly, it will heat up to dangerous temperatures. And you will have to decide: reduce the frequency or turn off some of the cores.