Monster of a CPU that quickly dispatches any task you throw at it. I enabled auto overclock in Ryzen Master which took it straight to 4.95GHz with plenty of thermal overhead remaining. 5GHz should be easy with manual overclock ING.

Picked this one up on launch day. Had intended to go for the 5900x for a bit of future proofing, but it wasn't available. This chip is much better than my old 6700, and that's all that matters. After a bit of OC tinkering, I opted in to using the Auto OC in Ryzen master, and increasing my boost range to 200MHz in the BIOS. My two main cores regularly hit 5.05GHz, with all other cores cracking at least 4.9 regularly. Get a decent AIO if you want to manually overclock in a way that is meaningfully better than Auto OC. With my Cryorig H7, I could maintain a 4.6GHz all core OC, which was better in multicore benchmarks, but worse for single ...view more

5800X is a decent performer but if you're looking for value purely for gaming buy the 5600X and if you're a professional creator / want no compromise than pick up a 5900X when they are back in stock. Used for about a week with no problems so far but you will need a beefy AIO / Air cooler to heat this chip as it does run fairly hot compared to the others in the stack.

The main factor that made me choose this over the 5600X was the Far Cry 6 promotion so in regard to that, it's a decent buy for a free game but having installed it with a Noctua NHU-12S, temps still shoot instantly to the default 90 degree limit under stress. Reseating the cooler several times did not improve temps, although I'm not using an AIO. AMD themselves did say the chip is meant to go up to 90 degrees but I've heard complaints about the 5800X in particular being poor for temps even compared to their higher tiered counterparts. In retrospect I'd probably go with the 5600X or the 5900X even if you already own a powerful cooling solu...view more