Four Core Gaming Computer

this 8 core CPU is just great, whether for gaming or productivity.

Four USB ports that can be easily switched from one computer to the other at a click of a button.

I bought it for my use, but my son uses it for his gaming computer. Love it!

I’m not a gamer, just a photographer and fine art printer.  So, even with all the bad news and confusion re the Ryzen 9000 series, I decided to go ahead and replace my 7900 with a 9900X anyway.  I have an MSI MPG B650i EDGE WiFi motherboard in an open case with an ID-Cooling SE-207-XT air cooler to which I have attached a second fan.  The 7900 runs with DDR5-6000 memory, Game-Boost and the TDP elevated to 105W.  It pulls 142W running Cinebench R23 with a high temperature of 79C for a multi-core score of 27550.  When I replaced the 7900 with the 9900X, with the BIOS cleared except for EXPO, Cenibench R23 scored it at 32214 with a high temp of 81C.  That’s a 17% improvement, much better than I expected.  Think I’ll be keeping the 9900X and seeing how much I can wring out of it with a better cooler.  I have no intention of playing the core parking game.  Some good news re the 9000 series is overdue.  I appreciate that gaming drives the technology, but other users make up a large part of the marketplace, so it seems wrong for gaming to influence the whole picture.  Even though AMD fumbled the rollout, the 9900X is still a great CPU for non-gamers.

Don't do much gaming, but I wanted the core & thread capacity for desktop virtual machines so that I can have 2-3 VM's with 4 processors assigned running quickly, while using the other cores for development and this has operated very nicely and smoothly for my needs!

The HyperX Alloy Core RGB - Gaming Keyboard is all I ever needed and more. It's the best keyboard I've ever had and great looking too.

It's expensive for a 6 Core CPU, but it can hold its own vs more expensive CPUs in gaming. So, while it doesn't have the multithread performance of other CPUs due to the lack of more cores, it still games amazingly.

It can turbo up to 4.8ghz on single core but usually hovers around 4.4 during gaming. Perfect for a SFF system as it runs much cooler than the K series, plus you don't need to worry about those e cores if you prefer to stay on windows 10.

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Great budget chip. Using it for gaming and the single core performance is very high. Can't be beat at this price point. Stock cooler works fine.