Ryzen 5 5600X Stock Cooler

I happened to check B&H when they had more of these in stock again! I'd planned to get a Ryzen 7 5800X. But seriously, after reading a lot of tech reviews on the two, I found most people and reviewers happy with the Rizen 5 5600X. It's at a good price, and the performance is not vastly different from the 5800X. I ended up saving around $140 going with the R5 5600X. Installed it after updating the old BIOS on my MSI Tomahawk 570X and it ran perfectly, and I enjoy seeing the lower temperatures inside the case!

This CPU was a replacement for a Ryzen 3 build I put together back in 2019 for my wife's home office. The Ryzen 3 1200 did not have display capabilities and lately the GTX 1050 Ti I installed for it wasn't sending a video signal to the monitors. I was torn between choosing this product vs the Ryzen 5 5600G which has substantial accelerated graphics performance over the 4600G but hey, it's an office computer, so better save the money. Also, this chip is twice as fast as the Ryzen 3 1200 but my wife didn't notice the difference, so again, why spend more? I'm using the integrated video on this CPU to drive the monitors and it's totally fine for her browsing, video watching and shopping. Happy wife makes for happy husband. Tech notes: installed on an ASUS Prime A320I-K ITX but I had to update the BIOS to get the Ryzen to POST. Also, the integrated graphics takes 700mb from your RAM. I upgraded to 32gb 2666 DD4 (for hundred(s) of browser tabs) so the loss is negligible. It comes with stock cooler which was same as the stock cooler for Ryzen 3 except for less fan blades. I reused old stock cooler with my own thermal compound and it idles at 33 C in an old CoolerMaster ITX case.

Stock cooler is all you need. This is the one.

It works well as same with stock cooler.

Depending on your use case, the Ryzen 5800x may not be necessary. Games will run perfectly well on a 5600x. I bought my 5800x just for peace of mind as this is the last generation of the AM4 chip. Depending the price difference between a 5600x and 5800x, a 5800x may be justifiable if it's $50 between the two. Make sure you have a cooler as this doesn't have one. Would recommend for sure!

After patiently waiting 6 months for the email from B&H that another batch of Ryzen 5 5600X processors had arrived, I immediately purchased the following components for a mini ITX build: Ryzen 5 5600X cpu Gigabyte B550I motherboard Patriot Viper 2x16GB DDR4 3200 MHz ram WD SN850 1TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 SSD Noctua NH-L9x65 low-profile cpu cooler Resulted in a SPECTACULAR performance upgrade to the FX-6300 hard disk drive computer that has been my workhorse for the last 8 years. Click the mouse, and Boop, almost immediate file load. Power on completes within 5-10 seconds. Because of the video card supply shortage, had to use an old Asus GT630 card, although the rest of the system compensates to still make for quick graphic design. The only issue was installing Debian Linux. Debian 10 Buster does not have a native driver for the Realtek 2.5 GbE LAN chip. After a few hours of trying to manually load the RealTek RTL8125 driver with no success, I tried the testing Debian 11 Bullseye release, which successfully completed the installation with the r8169 driver. A hearty 5 Star recommendation for the Gigabyte B550I, especially since it does not have a chipset cooling fan that can add noise. The SilverStone SG05BB-LITE case I use has plenty of vent area and temperature has not been a problem.

I am coming from the Ryzen 5 3600, which was great for a year or two. But after upgrading to this 5600x, I am getting better FPS in games like Deep Rock Galactic and even Dead by Daylight. Also getting faster render times via Handbrake. Great CPU. Running this processor with a Hyper 212 Black cooler, no problem.

For my first PC build i think i got one of the most versatile motherboards out there. Combined wth a ryzen 5 5600x, and other performance peripherals i have a powerhouse. Im not a millionaire but i had to research all the pieces in my build. Im eventually going to upgrade when hardware prices drop but its definitely going to be made by ASUS.

I bought this in a bundle with the Ryzen 5 5600X, and so far so good. No issues at the time of writing this review

Went from a phenom ii x4 945 to this board with a ryzen 5 5600x, and I gotta say, best decision I made since upgrading my video card and windows 10 pro to windows 11 pro.