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