Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'll try to keep this short - IM A GAMER (along with other things) AND THE PERFORMANCE IS GREAT! BF4/BF1/Battlefront 2 all run fine! Witcher 3 got a Ryzen update and is SMOKING my intel i7 4930k. Most PPL come from intel backgrounds and thats fine - theres a bit of a learning curve here. If your having performance issues download (from AMD of course) AMD RYZEN MASTER - its a program that allows you to set your CPU up or revert it back to stock... Whats important is that you set your memory to LOCAL mode and leave legacy compatibility mode OFF (keeps all the CPU' cores enabled). BOOM there was the performance I was looking for! I Game but I also edit and upload the video's on Twitch/YouTube. The Handbrake encoding speed is nice. Halving the time it took before. There were some hiccups with the motherboard initially but its all been ironed out. I cant believe the memory speeds Im hitting with this - nearly 90GBps on the ram in quad channel config @ 2400mhz. I had the same speed ram in DDR3 on my i7 4930K and the best I saw was around 24GBps! (both 32GB quad kits / G.skill tridentZ RGB vs RipJawZ @ 2400MHz). It's MASSIVE! and when you first hold it the thing youll notice is the weight - its HEAVY. What a beast of a CPU. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO GET THOSE BIOS UPDATES FOR x399!!!! Especially if your using the Gigabyte. What can I say I love it, it's fast and if you like video editing your in for a TREAT! Adobe needs to get After Effects/PremierePro updated since it can only use 18 cores but Im seeing software get updated to take advantage of Ryzen so fast. Overclocking is fine and all but unless you NEED to, I wouldn't OC right off the bat. Im cooling mine with the Fractal Design S36 and when Im transcoding videos in handbrake I average around 63.5c and thats with stock thermal paste. Im waiting for my new PC case to put arctic silver on. Some idoits say Threadripper runs hot - complete BS! Its thermal shut off diode is at 115c! Its rated to run 68c 24/7 - so yeah stock its cool. Idle temps right now for me are 32c. using HWinfo64 I can see my entire mobo is using 120 watts idle and with a full workload averages about 350 watts not counting GPU's. I have it on an Corsair RM850 and its powering the CPU fine (even when I did OC for some testing). Dont let it sit in your case with a slow SSD SATA hard drive - give this hungry mother what it wants - a full blown PCIe x4 m.2 drive! Its just begging for one and most of the motherboards can feed it up to 3 of these with native ports! FYI AMD just released full m.2 nvme RAID support driver (which is a bit psychotic) but I guess if you need 20GBps read/write hard drive speed - have fun! Intel is BLOCKING this on their non Xeon boards... Conclusion - Im an intel guy and Im having a BLAST with the Threadripper. Its exotic and different in a way I like. Im not a guy who like the status quota - I like things free and open for me to have my way with and AMD has given me just that! No more restrictions and BIG BROTHER saying what I can and cant do. This firecracker is lit and ready to explode.