Review on AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler (YD1600BBAFBOX) - 65W Energy Efficiency by Wiktor Witold Skow ᠌

Name: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler (YD1600BBAFBOX) - 65W Energy Efficiency
Item: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler (YD1600BBAFBOX) - 65W Energy Efficiency
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

I am delighted, the product is really worthy.

I have experience with Ryzen 5 (1400, 1500X, 1600X) and Ryzen 7 (1800X) line processors. If in order:
1) All Ryzen 5 processors worked with Geil Evo X RAM at the nameplate frequency of 3200 MHz even with AGESA 1.0.0.4. There were no problems here, and given the normal cost of these dice (~ 4.5tr for 8 GB), it cannot be called inaccessible.
2) All processors worked absolutely stably at 4 GHz. The Ryzen 5 1400 ran at 4.1 GHz and the system booted at 4300 MHz.
3) Wraith Spire (BOX-cooler from 1500X-1600) was enough for testing processors, temperatures did not even reach 70 degrees on the most serious loads
4) GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 Ti video cards were used for testing, with them all processors showed decent results in FHD and higher resolutions.

Work on the line of processors continues, and with each BIOS it feels like you are using a different system. For those who are in the throes of choice - the Ryzen 5 1600 must-have!
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Pros

- 8 and 12 streams at an affordable price - Unlocked multiplier on all processors - Overclocking on inexpensive (<$100) motherboards and boxed cooling systems - Good performance per core - Support for modern protocols and interfaces - Excellent results in new games

Cons

- RAM compatible at launch (AGESA 1.0.0.6 fixes this completely) - Not everything related to games before 2022 is being quickly optimized, but a huge amount of work has already been done - Low overclocking potential (but 4 GHz is enough, taking into account the number of cores and threads)