AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler - YD270XBGAFBOX

best purchase Ive ever made

I marked the ease of installation as a 3/5 because of the cooler. The way the clips function isnt particularly well explained in the manual and the lever is a bit of a pain in the ass to work. For a first time builder it was marginally terrifying futzing with the seating of the cooler as there arent many videos available for an explanation.

great stability with a ASUS X470-PRO and fast

Oh AMD... it has been far too long. At one point I loved AMD, but eventually over time their stagnation drove me away. Before I was going to build my rig, I was set on getting an 8700k. I am so glad I didnt.

DO NOT OVERCLOCK TO 4.3 GHz!!! I tried to overclock this processor to 4.3 GHz, and I ended up having to spend hours figuring out how to clear the BIOS/CMOS. This processor CAN NOT handle 4.3 GHz. However, this processor was able to overclock to 4.2 GHz very well, but even at that speed, it still couldnt even run Cinebench without crashing. Overall, though, the CPU is a good bang for your buck and cooler it comes with it does an adequate job at keeping temperatures below 50 C when the processor is not overclocked. Again, make sure you do not overclock this processor to 4.3 GHz, or youll have a hard time.

Perfect

Thanks AMD

It did all i wanted it to, easily Stable clock at 4.25. I have to note that i already had a CPU cooler Noctua NDTH-15

I bought mine from another store but I must say that if you are debating between this or the 3000 ryzen chips get this now and upgrade at the end of 2020 with the 4000 ryzen chips. I got my chip overclock to 4.25ghz on all cores at 1.375v. super stable and runs everything I throw at it. For the $159 price tag you cant beat the performance per dollar. I paid $329 for mine when it released and Im still happy with the performance! Just buy it!!

Good CPU, my system as pretty much no bottlenecks.