AMD YD150XBBAEBOX Ryzen 5 1500X Processor with Wraith Spire Cooler

Contrary to what some would have you believe and would blare out in ALLCAPS or otherwise their loudest voice, Ryzen works just fine with Windows 7 and Microsoft's block on updates can be worked around via a community patch (see bleepingcomputer.com, askwoody.com and the Windows subreddit as links to the workaround can change) and there is a noticeable increase in performance over my overclocked FX-6300. I mention this because my previous system was an FX-6300 clocked at a stable 4.2Ghz with 16GB DDR3-1866 RAM and the same video card (Radeon R9 380X 4GB) and mechanical hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 2TB) - I used to have two, but one was on its last legs and was removed until I can back it up. In games which should be medium in their intensity or otherwise offer a stable 60fps at 1080p high to, or at, ultra the FX-6300 system would drop to to the high 30s to mid-40s (Dragon Age: Inquisition at Skyhold, town areas of Mass Effect: Andromeda) and add mods to the mix for Inquisition and you could expect long enough loading times to wonder if the game has crashed. Other games such as Euro Truck Simulator 2 would be 50fps to a little over 60fps on the open road with limited traffic at High and above, but high traffic and cities would bring the frame rate down to the 30s and light ranges would have to be reduced in scope/mirror draw distance and such taken into account if you wanted a frame rate increase. In the case of ETS2, V-sync was disabled. Light games such as those made in Unity or most games using Unreal Engine 3 (with the exception of the mess that is Arkham Knight) suffered no issues at all. Keeping the settings at high for testing purposes, the Ryzen build (with just 8GB of ADATA DDR4-2400 RAM which I bought new elsewhere, has no errors when tested) reports a minimum of 52fps (high to fade-touched for Inquisition) during cluttered scenes and combat and otherwise maintains 59-63fps without waiting for sounds to play due to a high load (CPU limitation). In fairness to the FX-6300, travelling about the wilderness usually wasn't too much of an issue but pop-ins would be noticeable and the aforementioned sounds not being loaded in time and playing a few seconds late was even then. Not an issue in Andromeda, so perhaps also a game implementation issue. ETS2 reports 75fps+ at the same high detail settings regardless of the area and weather conditions (manually set to rain most of the time). Rise of the Tomb Raider is a game I ran the benchmark in prior to upgrading, the results per benchmark are given as FX-6300 first and Ryzen 5 1500X second. All details set to at least high at 1080p using the aforementioned R9 380X 4GB graphics card and mechanical hard drive. ADDITIONAL: I have now ran the benchmark a second and third time on the Ryzen build and the results have improved considerably. Spine Of The Mountain/Mountain Peak:- FX-6300 at 4.2Ghz with 16GB RAM at 1866Mhz: 28.3 minimum, 86.3 maximum, 51.1 average. 1506 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 1500X at 3.5Ghz with 8GB RAM at 2400Mhz: 22.5 minimum, 90.1 maximum, 55.5 average. 1634 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 2nd run: 36.6 minimum, 119.9 maximum, 67.6 average, 1989 total frames. Ryzen 5 3rd run: 41.4 minimum, 91.8 maximum, 69.6 average, 2044 total frames. Prophet's Tomb:- FX-6300: 13.5 minimum, 76.1 maximum, 38.2 average. 937 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5: 13.7 minimum, 83.5 maximum, 43.5 average. 1068 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 2nd run: 26.2 minimum, 73.6 maximum, 51.9 average, 1272 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 3rd run: 26.1 minimum, 71.3 maximum, 51.6 average, 1266 total rendered frames. Geothermal Valley:- FX-6300: 7.1 minimum, 89.3 maximum, 39.8 average. 1176 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5: 17.1 minimum, 84.2 maximum, 45.7 average. 1348 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 2nd run: 22.4 minimum, 86.2 maximum, 53.9 average. 1590 total rendered frames. Ryzen 5 3rd run: 31.0 minimum, 63.7 maximum, 50.1 average, 1479 total rendered frames. Based upon the further runs conducted this morning (19th October 2017), I would wager the touted Infinity Fabric is at work here which is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because, as I have found, performance increases as one runs the same applications but a curse because if I hadn't returned? Those of you reading this review would have come away with a poor impression when compared to the overclocked FX-6300. Also, running the Geothermal Valley part for the third time (or second time this morning) allowed for all the assets to be readily available in memory leading to an improved minimum frame rate (less hard drive activity to load up everything) and a reduced maximum frame rate because the assets were actually present and being rendered. All other differences between the second and third runs I'd chalk up to standard system fluctuations as the overall results are close enough. In the other games I have mentioned, I have noticed the frame rates being a lot higher than stated. 70-100fps is not uncommon even in games such as Marvel Heroes Omega, of which depends on server connection speed to an extent and is rather cluttered with shader and texture effects when a dozen or more players are present at any one time. Not at all bad going given how bogged down/reworked UE3 is in that game. ** Temperatures ** I'm using the stock heatsink and fan as opposed to the budget water cooling that my FX-6300 and prior Phenom II x4 955 (RIP) enjoyed for years, and it is quiet and truly efficient. Temperatures rarely reach or go beyond 45C, with 40-42C usually being the maximum regardless of the intensive nature of the game in question. This does leave plenty of room for overclocking even with the basic cooler, so it remains to be seen just how far this particular chip of mine can willingly go. ** Overall so far ** I'm perfectly happy with my Ryzen 5 and I'm glad I went for that instead of the Ryzen 3 or being super cheap and going for the Athlon X4 950. Even now I have a system far more capable of video and audio editing, of which I avoided video editing as much as possible on the only just capable FX-6300 and kept to simple clean up and tweaking of my vinyl backups.

Picked this up for £119.99 last week when there was an Amazon Prime members deal which was an absolute bargain and a steal for a 4C/8T CPU, I had to buy it. I was deciding on the 1500X or the 1600, but I only game on my pc I didn't need to do any photo/video editing or run any other intensive programs so 4 cores was enough for me. I've paired this up with my GTX 1070 FE and its an absolute monster in gaming and handles everything Ive thrown at it. The Ryzen 5 lineup really makes the intel i5 series seem not worth it in my opinion in terms of having less threads, and value for money by costing more for a small performance gain in gaming and other applications. The 1500X is a brilliant choice for pure gaming use and its got the horsepower to handle other intensive tasks that gets thrown its way.

Bought this processor for my son's gaming PC. Originally running an AMD A10-7700K, 8GB of DDR3 1866 and a GeForce GTX 950; he wanted to give his system a little more oomph. We upgraded to a Ryzen 5 1500X, a new Mainboard and 8GB of DDR4 2666. What a difference! Rainbow 6 Siege performance increased from ~35FPS to ~80FPS. An amazing performance gain. You will read reviews suggesting that your money is better spent on a Core i5 at a similar price. This Ryzen 5 gives you 4 cores running 2 threads each - that's 8 threads total, double the amount available on the Intel chip. Intel fans will tell you that that's OK, because most games don't take full advantage of multithreading. While this is true, your computer is running other apps as you game away - things like Discord, screen casting, AV, Chrome etc. The more threads you have available, the more that work can be offloaded to spare cores, the more you can offload, the less those apps have to fight for CPU time with your games. Kapeesh? Did I mention this CPU ships with a pretty decent cooler too?

1500x.It's good. Better than the 1400 which i ordered first but I was disappointed with the performance. I was upgrading from the fx 6300 and I found the 1400 wasn't much better. But the 1500x is great for 60fps gaming. I'd recommend the 1500x over the 1400. It has double the cache of the 1400, 16mb compared to 8mb. The extra cache makes a big difference when gaming.

OK, Intel chips are a little faster, but this 4 core (8 thread) AMD Ryzen cpu was under £115 !!! and so the performance / price ratio is outstanding....particularly when viewed in comparison to the current over-inflated prices of the latest Intel offerings (second mortgage time). Plus I've got an easy upgrade path.

Very good cpu. It is unlocked so can be overclocked if motherboard is able to overclock as well. Very easy to install used this for my first ever pc build and had no trouble with it. The stock cooler is very good keeping the cpu around mid 40C in heat and yet is almost silent if there is a background noise you can't usually hear it and my pc is located only a meter or so away from me. Wouldn't recommend overclocking with stock cooler though as don't know how it will hold up and of course like with any cpu the amount of extra overclock you can get is down the silicon lottery

Great budget gaming CPU Used in the following setup CiT Dark Soul Black Midi Case EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W Crucial Ballistix Sport LT BLS2K8G4D30AESBK 3000 MHz Integral V Series 2 480GB SATA III AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Desktop CPU-AM4 Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G

I ordered this because I’m building a pc and when it arrived, I didn’t read the specs but I’m so happy because they are amazing and will work so well! My boyfriend has this now and I have his ryzen 3 just because he games a lot more! I will definitely buy another when I have the money!

Sin duda es el mejor Ryzen si cuentas con un presupuesto muy apretado, en vez de ir por el 1400, recomiendo altamente hacer un poco más de esfuerzo e ir a por este. A pesar de ser la versión X como sus hermanos mayores, este si cuenta con un disipador, así que es un gasto "menos" en comparación. 3.5GHz que comparados con su hermano FX8350 que corre a 4.0GHz... el Ryzen da un mejor desempeño, probablemente 3 veces mejor. Los Ryzen funcionan mejor en ambientes donde se le saca jugo al multiproceso, poco a poco los videojuegos van utilizando esta tecnología, sin embargo no son mayoría por ahora por lo que puede no irte mejor que un i3 o i5 en todos los juegos, pero en juegos que haga uso de todos los núcleos, notarás la diferencia. Si eres una persona que compila, renderiza o procesa videos sin duda Ryzen es tu procesador. A comparación de su Familia FX, los Ryzen se calientan mucho menos, de hecho, incluso menos que un Intel. En su salida tenia problemas de compatibilidad pero actualmente ya no hay de que preocuparse, prácticamente ya todas las RAM y Tarjetas madre son compatibles, eso si, probablemente tengas que actualizar la BIOS al instalarla. Los Ryzen valen totalmente la inversión y ahora con los Threadripper estos han bajado de precio.

Ryzen 1500x. Opción muy interesante y a tener en cuenta en presupuestos ajustados. Este procesador esta a la par de rendimiento de los i5. El 1500x viene con 4/8 que en total darían 8 núcleos lógicos en el sistema. Viene con una frecuencia de 3.5 GHz y en modo turbo 3.7 GHz, decir que yo lo eh subido perfectamente a 3.9 GHz con un voltaje de 1.326v combinado con una placa base b350 junto unas memorias a 3000Mhz, en si el conjunto trabaja perfectamente y tiene un buen potencial este procesador. Decir que esta montado en refrigeracion liquida y no con el disipador de serie, tiene unas temperaturas en idle de unos 35º y sobre 58º en full. Este procesador junto una Rx 580 da un rendimiento muy bueno, sacando 4560 puntos en tyme spy. En pruebas con titulos a 1080p decir que se comporta muy bien. En tareas de videos, renderizados y descompresion tambien tiene un desempeño muy bueno. En resumen, este vendria a ser el hermano mediano de los Ryzen, tiene un buen rendimiento en todos los aspectos, es bastante fresco y sera ideal para todos aquellos presupuesos ajustados los cuales no quieran renunciar a tener una potencia mas que decente en todos los escenarios. Espero que te sirva de ayuda mi opinión.

Performance is good however CPU heats alot while running a game.

config: Geforce 970 KFA OC 4Go et 8Go RAM Overwatch, PUBG, et autres en qualité Ultra si je le souhaite avec + de 60 FPS. Le moniteur de ressources ne l'affiche jamais à plus de 50% en jeu même avec de multiples programmes lancés sur la machine au même moment. Il fait parfaitement le travail que les fabricants de CPU vantent seulement pour leurs haut de gamme... Honnêtement, pour un prix bien inférieur je ne me vois pas changer avant bien des années. Le ventirad fourni est tout à fait suffisant et je ne perçois aucune surchauffe. Bref, ravi.

Processore strepitoso per la sua fascia. Il migliore in casa AMD per la fascia medio/alta. Con un poco di OC tiene testa anche agli i7 di casa Intel, senza problemi e ha poco da invidiare ai suoi fratelli maggiori Ryzen 7. La differenza di prezzo per un Ryzen 7 non ne vale la pena, meglio un ryzen 5 1500X o un 1600 se volete fare per lo più gaming e uso quotidiano. Se invece il vostro uso da ufficio richiede grossi quantitativi di lavoro, come rendering, o calcolo grafico, matematico, scientifico, simulazioni etc, allora andare sul top di gamma con 8 core fisici e 8 virtualizzati potrebbe essere la scelta migliore, ovviamente dovrete accettare il compromesso del prezzo. Se invece volete stare su cifre contenute indipendentemente dal carico di lavoro, questo processore fa proprio al caso vostro. Come da specifiche, il consumo è basso e di conseguenza anche le temperature non sono eccessive. Nota importante, il dissipatore stock mi ha sorpreso molto. All'inizio credevo fosse come tutti i dissipatori stock di intel a cui eravamo abituati, che servivano solo a tenere ferma la cpu mentre si scrivevano documenti su word, invece si è rivelato un ottimo dissipatore in grado di reggere grossi carichi di lavoro !! cercate su youtube le comparative e i testi fatti e vedrete che è un ottimo dissipatore. Se siete intenzionati a fare OC invece dovrete scegliere qualcosa di più potente, ma senza OC è un ottimo dissipatore. In più il led attorno alla ventola gli da quel tocco in più che non lo fa sembrare un pezzo di plastica masticato. Ho montato questa CPU su due schede madri, MSI B350 tomhawak e poi su una Gigabyte GA-AX370-GAMING-K7 e su entrambe NON ho mai riscontrato problemi di compatibilità. E' anche vero che per tutte le nuove schede con socket am4 e nuovi chipset amd, ci sono gli aggiornamenti bios da fare, che risolvono alcuni problemi di compatibilità riscontrati dagli utenti. Consiglio vivamente di fare subito gli aggiornamenti bios prima ancora di installare il sistema operativo. Comunque io personalmente non ho riscontrato alcun problema di compatibilità su entrambe le schede madri. Conlcudendo, ottima CPU sopratutto per il rapporto qualità/prezzo/prestazioni. Consigliatissima !!