Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Currently overclocked to a moderate 3.7GHz without even touching vcore and all settings set to auto and it's rock solid. I'm currently using the Wraith cooler till my 212 Hyper EVO bracket comes in and it's running around 32* Idle and 52* @ load which is impressive to say the least. I have this paired this with an MSI Tomahawk B350 MB and also don't forget to download and take advantage of AMD's free software AMD Ryzen Master. This will give you useful information and allow you to overclock directly from the desktop. I replaced an Intel i5 4690K overclocked to 4.4GHz with this Ryzen 7 1700 and what a difference in day to day tasks. I've been loyal to the Intel brand for decades but AMD got it right for the price!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: 3/24/2017 It's now been a few weeks with this new Ryzen and everything is running great. I have been able to overclock this to 4GHz with only 1.385v and she screams in every benchmark. My bracket finally came in for my Cool Master Hypo EVO 212 and temps idle around the mid 40* and hit about 67* full load overclocked @ 4GHz. As far as gaming is concerned my i5 4690K was giving me a few more FPS but once I overclocked this 1700 it's now on par without the need to disable SMT. I recently switched my power profile back to balanced from performance for obvious reasons and see no downgrade in performance from doing so. You are definitely getting your bang for buck with Ryzen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: 5/5/2017 Now that AMD have released new chipset drivers and the new ryzen balanced power plan this is absolutely the best running computer I've ever built. I nick named this thing the Terminator because no matter what you throw at this thing it just keeps coming!!