AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler - YD270XBGAFBOX, RGB

What I've always loved about Ryzen CPUs is their value compared to Intel. AMD is comparable to the 8700k (~$360), and some even consider it to be on par with the 9700k (~$420 on Amazon). Upgrading from a 1600 (on one computer) and 2600x (on another) is a breeze. Why? AM4 compatibility, which is something Intel decides not to do. Want to upgrade to Ryzen 2 (TBA at CES)? Just take off your cooler, take your current CPU out, and put this new one in WITHOUT the hassle of dropping another $190-$290 on a new motherboard. The 2700x even comes with a cooler, which the 9700k does not have, and a fine cooler at that. An aesthetically pleasing cooler and fully functional one that keeps one of my 2700x under 73C with Precision Boost 3 (which goes up to 5Ghz for me). My other 2700x is AIO water cooled, and can push out up to 6.5Ghz (on all cores) with Precision Boost 2 at 70C-80C. This CPU at idle gives out 2% usage, which I took for granted until I looked at an i5 8400(?) which idled at 20%. Also, Ryzen Master, beautiful work of art. Instead of restarting my computer a million times to get a stable clock, I can just go into Ryzen Master, increase core clocks until it crashes, then raise the voltage and find a stable clock speed. Or you can leave it to Precision Boost 2, but I like to run my CPU at 4.2 Base with Precision Boost 2 enabled. If you're doing a mid-tier budget build for all-purpose, I really suggest this CPU, as it can do everything equally well, as it is more around daily tasks than Intel's gaming tasks. I love this CPU so much, that I've fitted it in all four of the computers in the house with no complaints on gaming or such from others. Edit: Added photos of stock 2700x cooler. Fan colour changes and the ring around the fan has an RGB wave pattern. It can maintain a semi-idle 2700x at 35C-45C. Also uploaded some photos of it. Haven’t touched the software though and I personally don’t plan to. Edit 2: Just got my 9900k, and it was a massive disappointment compared to this $310 Ryzen beast. In CS:GO, a CPU intensive game, it only ran 20FPS faster, which literally doesn’t matter since most monitors can’t go over 240HZ (2700x had 275 avg; 9900k has 300; but these CPUs max out at 500 in certain scenarios). My 9900k was even clocked at 5.3Ghz and costs $530, so compared to this Ryzen 2700x, it really isn’t worth it unless you want to show it off or do Adobe stuff which is optimised for Intel. But because I overclocked, my temps were 30C idle and up to 90C during gaming. On the 2700x, it never broke 60C, with the same cooler and fans. Pros -cost effective -comes with a decent stock cooler -easy overclock (if you like that sort of thing) -easy to upgrade from Zen 1 or upgrade to Ryzen 2 -cheaper motherboards that can easily overclock Cons -not the best single-core performance, but what do you expect for $310 compared to Intel's $380 CPU -not the best variety of motherboards (which isn't a 2700x problem, but just general) -I can't think of anything else

After using this CPU for several months, I finally have a final opinion. For gaming: I have this CPU paired with an RTX 2060 SUPER 8gb and I don't get any noticeable CPU bottlenecks at 1080 144Hz. It is installed in an Asrock B450M Steel Legend motherboard and I use the stock Wraith Prism cooler on it. Never once, have I thermal throttled. According to 3dMark I get a single core boost of 4.5Ghz but when I'm at the desktop it hovers around 4.00Ghz. While gaming I usually have Discord, Opera with Facebook, Reddit, YouTube and some other tab open along with Steam, Epic Games and of course the game i'm running and it handles all these tasks while not sacrificing any gaming performance. Overall Gaming experience (1080p): 10/10 Content Creation: When I first got this CPU I used OpenShot video editor which could not take advantage of GPU acceleration so the 16 threads on this CPU were extremely useful. We're talking less than an hour for 20 minute 4k videos to be rendered at high bit-rates. (Mileage may very based on your ambient temps and motherboards VRM capabilities) Overall Content Creation Score: 7/10 (Might want a threadripper for anything professional) Included Wraith Prism Cooler: As good as you would expect form any $40 cooler, extremely efficient and should work the same for everybody. Might be able to handle light overclocking if you win the silicon lottery. And for the RGB, it's fantastic. The cooler master wraith prism software works great and doesn't need to be running for the RGB profiles to stick. Value for money: It's great if you can get it for under $200. I paid $240 and I'm more than happy.

Got this during Black Friday 2019 for $160. It was an unbeatable deal. I just looked at the R5 3600 like "sorry buddy, I want you but lol...they're making it difficult." I know they usually say the extra 2 cores work well for streaming so I did some twitch streaming @60fps 720p high video bitrate over wifi just to see how it handled it. Had several of my friends tune in including myself from another device. Stream was flawless. Meanwhile the game I was running was Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. 1440p, completely maxed out graphics locked at 60fps. Didn't check the results without a cap while streaming but I know that when I was playing off stream and removed the cap I was getting like 170fps. I paired it up with a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT. It's a match made in heaven and the RGB of both the CPU and GPU are glorious. I've yet to find any reason to overlcock this CPU. It destroys everything I throw at it. Afterburner shows that the CPU handles itself nicely, boosting up to 4.2Ghz when it needs to, and coming back down to 3.7Ghz. I've never seen it hit 4.3Ghz on its own but like I said, when all your games get FPS like that at stock with those resolutions & graphics settings, what's the point? Emulators get devoured too. Wii U, PS3, Wii/GameCube, PS2 etc, just straight devoured. Breath of the Wild running at 4K@60 like....."WASSUP?" Not to mention CEMU 1.17.1 is dropping very soon and we're gonna see an even bigger boost in performance for AMD users. I always see the argument about "get the R7 2700X over the R5 3600 only if you stream". No bro, just get it cuz it's cheaper, has more cores, and has a monster heatsink. The gaming performance you're gonna lose is extremely negligent. Check out the testers on youtube. Speaking of heatsink, almost forgot the temps. I use a NZXT H510 with only the default exhaust fan setup. No extra case fans. I just tweaked the fan curves of the case, cpu and gpu slightly to my liking. Not enough for noise to be an issue either. I live in the Caribbean, it's dry season at the moment, so it's hot as hell. No AC in my room. My temps never go above 70c while gaming....so it's pretty safe to say the heatsink is doing its job. I was expecting more heat with a cramped case like mine and that monster AMD gpu (you know AMD looooves some toast action), but everything's actually running cool. This CPU/Heatsink combo man, there's just so much to love and so much money to save. Gotta love it lol.

Stable, no issues. Wrote more about my feedback in regards to the platform on my board review. You can find plenty of reviews on this, but this is highly recommended. Great for gaming and software development. The performance is really strong, no blue-screens, and they did a good job of coaching/handhold the board companies to make sure they have their act together on this release. I have only had it for a few days, but i didn't even need to reinstall my os from the previous cpu which was intel (your mileage will vary). This is truely a great platform. And with amd you can upgrade your cpu in a couple of years, in the same board. They promised though 2020 support which means you get the 7nm cpu. Since there is real competition now you can expect some real innovation in the next couple of years, so this is a big deal from both intel and amd. It makes everyone better Nice to see amd back in the game. It has made a huge impact on cpu prices and feature set. The cooler also worked great for me. No temperature issues. The cooler is louder than what i liked. as a bit of an enthusiast i would rather have a larger but quieter fan on the board. The cooler is perfectly designed for this cpu. i would by default spend any money on an after market cooler 100 would be better used on a gpu or ram by far. Note you can also make sure your case has good airflow and go with simpler cooling solutions since you don't need to compensate for a bad case or case fan setup. Anyway, this is a great well rounded cpu. As a software engineer it is great to see fast compile times, and cores to spare for hyperv and docker. I can also play all the latest games just fine. though truth be told you can do that with a 150 dollar cpu. I didn't have any problems with Ram compatibility. I came from Haswell (intel) i dont' notice any difference in gaming (not expecting to) but productivitivy is a big boost. If you just game you really don't need this much cpu generally.

So this is my first ever Ryzen build (2700X) and my 1st 8 core CPU. No thanks to Intel for keeping their 8 core CPUs out of mainstreamers reach with ridiculous prices. My previous system was a i5 6600K @4.7Ghz, awesome build for just gaming. Anyways, after assembling the system and powering it on for the very first time, monitor did not show anything. The system had power and all the fancy LED lights and fans were on. So what I did was swap my RAMs from A1 B1 to A2 and B2. Then the system boosted just fine! At first I thought the lastest BIOS update would fix it. But even after the latest BIOS update the system doesn't post if I install the RAMs in A1 and B1. After you move the Ram sticks to A2B2 you might want to take out the battery, disconnect the power cord and reset the CMOS by sorting the two pins. Coming from the Intel platform I must say, the BIOS is a bit different on Ryzen. On the Skylake, I only had to adjust vcore for CPU voltage. But in Ryzen it seems there's a second voltage to look out for, SoC voltage. I manually set my voltage to 1.375 but HWinfo has shown the max it hit as 1.5v so I guess I need some more tweaking to do. I'm using a really old Crucial 2400Mhz cl16 Ram which I bought when Intel Skylake first came out. I was able to OC it to 2700Mhz with the Intel system but couldn't do it on the Ryzen, just didn't post. Hopefully later if the Ram prices drop I would upgrade it to 3200mh c14 Ram. After setting up the drivers I had Windows update running in background and I thought of testing out AC Origins on this system. I was gaming for a about 5 mins and notice that all fans including the CPU fan had stopped for whatever reason. And because of this the CPU temp was well over 90 degrees, so I powered it down and let it cool. After fully updating windows, I tested the game again and everything was good! I'm going to install Adobe apps and will update more info soon. One of most annoying issues I got is that Asus AI suite, CPU-Z and HWinfo shows completely different vcore and CPU speed readings. So I have no idea which one is right. I have yet to install Ryzen master. Oh and right now I'm using the stock cooler that came with the 2700X and idle temps at at 43 celcius ambient at being around 24. Have to use this cooler until I get the AM4 mounts for my NH-D15. Thanks AMD! UPDATE 23-May-2018: I got the mounting kit for my Noctua NH-D15 and now my system idles at 30 celcius while being OC'ed to 4.22Ghz at 1.4v in BIOS! Huge thermal headroom compared to the stock cooler. When all cores are stressed to 100% it peaks at 60 degress! With stock cooler without OC it goes into 80s. UPDATE 29-May-2018 OVERCLOCKING: When i first got the CPU i found that 1.425v in BIOS with LLC on Auto gave me a rock solid 4.2Ghz OC. But then I kept seeing this strange vcore changes. At idle, the vcore stays around 1.4v to1.412v. But when I stress the CPU with any intensive task, the vcore drops and stays around 1.362v! That was weird. Less vcore with stress and more vcore when idle. lol So what I did was after a couple of tests, I manually set my vcore in BIOS to 1.387v and LLC to 5 and now the system always at this vcore even when stressed to 100% and even in idle! NICE. I found that LLC5 was needed to keep my vcore there. When i set the LLC to 4, the vcore drops down from 1.387v to 1.362v when stressed and causes Prime95 to crash. With LLC5 it stays at 1.387v when stressed with Prime95 and I didn't even had to raise the vcore! So in short, please don't leave the vcore and LLC on Auto. When you OC please set your LLC too.

7/15/2020 UPDATE: So regarding the whole offset voltage thing. It seems you may find mixed results. Yes the decreased voltage reduces heat. Reduce heat means higher potential clock right? Wrong. In situations where the CPU was already more than capabable of handling itself to where it will not harm itself even running full speed(stock) under heavy load. It changes freq. But the problem comes with the voltage requests of the motherboard. The CPU will also downclock if it does not get the voltage it needs. "But you just enable PBO!" Yes that loosens the power caps but remember, volts = watts x amps and amps = watts/volts. So heres how it can possiBly screw you if you don't balance the reduced voltage with the increased amperage. Your MOBO is still requesting the same stock voltage of say 1.58v(my highest hwinfo64 reading) at 138w(PBOenabled. highest hwinfo64 reading) @ at full load causing almost 95amps draw. And thats a problem vs stock where the lack of voltage isnt causing power demands that just cant be met. Causing downclocking. And also reducing XFR to almost zero Benifet since the CPU will refuse to clock any higher if it feels any of its parameters that would allow it to aren't Being met. One of which is caused By the reported SV12 Voltage bing lower than the VID. Making the CPU think its reached max power already since hardware limitations didnt allow for an increasing in amps to compensate for the reduced voltage. Which I admit, a good power supply will help reduce the issue. In other words, yes you are shedding heat. Great if you dont need the extra horsepower and want to extend life. But if thats not for you, then I wouldnt recomend any voltage offset over -.0500v. Beyond that your just asking to starve the CPU of power. Check GamersNExus for Benchmarks on this exact scenario. So with the stock cooler. MSI b450m Tomahawk: My temps are around 40-45c idle. Expected. Loads under gaming 60-70c. p95 75c. ALL PRETTY DANG GOOD FOR A STOCK COOLER STOCK SETTINGS My boost clocks are hitting 4.25-4.35ghz consistently during gaming. Which is amazing. I noticed a HUGE difference since I upgraded from a FX 6350 to this monster. I recently tried a -.0750v offset and so far its very stable and shaved off about 3c-5c on all my temps. And the boost clocks seems to be running about the same. Benchmarks seem to be unaffected as well. I will remove the negative voltage offset as soon as my MSI Frozr L heatsink comes in tomorrow. There is no need to overclock this thing. DO NOT BY AN X if you want to overclock. Buy the non X save $20+ then OC to the X specs. Easy as that. The way ryzens are designed is to self OC to its limits. If you are running hot with high voltages GOOD. Its constantly pushing its limits to get the speeds it needs based on demand. I hit 1.5v+ during gaming all the time. Brief voltage and temp spikes will not hurt this baby at all. I love the way they designed this thing to run. All in all the Ryzens are great I HIGHLY recommend them. Save yourself hundreds and go with a Ryzen.

I chose this card because I wanted a powerful workstation that could handle a lot of multitasking. This has good speeds, but more appealing to me was the fact that it has 8 cores. So while I think this is a fine CPU for gaming, it should also be able to handle a lot of different tasks that require a powerful CPU. It seems fast and my benchmark tests are good. But I would just note two things for everyone: 1) This CPU does not feature integrated graphics support. You need a separate GPU. Otherwise, if you try to build a system with this processor but no graphics card, you're not going to get a video signal. 2) I found the installation of the "Wraith Prism Cooler" a bit confusing. I thought I had latched it into place when I hadn't. I noticed my Ryzen 2700X was running around 50C idle or higher, which seemed too hot to me. So I latched the cooler down in the opposite direction, which did take a little force, and temperatures dropped to around 40C or less. So be mindful of that. All in all, I carefully chose this card by comparing benchmarks speeds to my budget to try to get the fastest card with the most cores for an affordable price. I think I succeeded.

December 30, 2018 (5 days of use): I'm using this processor for gaming, but this is the PC that I use for all what I have to do and I can tell that this processor is made for any task, and it will perform great. Userbenchmark's bench gave me as a result of 100.2% in Base Clock. The AMD Wraith Prism performs great, even in long gaming sessions. I have a poor ventilation on my PC, because I've been armed it by pieces on my own (my next purchase will be some fans), and this Ryzen has never exceeded 85°C after long hours of playing games that demand enough CPU, taking into account that I'm only using a good GPU that generates some heat, that I'm using the stock AMD Wraith Prism Cooler and another intake fan in the front of the case, just that. Also, when I'm only surfing on internet or doing other tasks that demand almost nothing to the processor, the temperature at which it remains after a while is around 40°C - 48°C. AMD Ryzen Master works very well, you can change every aspect of the frecuency of your Ryzen, controll the RAM frecuency and even make some overclock of both, changing values like frecuency of every core, voltage, and even enable the Precision Boost Overdrive, that's a type of automatic overclock, where the CPU takes into account its temperature, maximum frequency and maximum power, to achieve values higher than the 3.7GHz base clock without having to worry about whether the temperature is harmful or if it is exceeding the maximum power or the maximum overclock frequency of the Ryzen. In my opinion, this is a great CPU for every task you need, you will not have only good gaming performace, also a great performance on every day use and in tasks that need a lot of cores and threads. Important for those who want to use the stock Wraith Prism Cooler: Connect ONLY the USB cable from the cooler to the motherboard and not use the RGB cable. Both work, but you will be able to controll RGB only with the USB cable. Also, don't connect both at the same time, because the cooler will only recognize the RGB header and not the USB. Then, download the Cooler Master Wraith Prism RGB Controller app from their website, and then you'll be able to change the color of the halo ring, the fan and the AMD logo, separately. My actual hardware is: -- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X -- Gigabyte Aorus B450 Elite motherboard -- Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 3000MHz (2x8GB) -- AMD Wraith Prism RGB Cooler -- Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB OC G1 Gaming -- MyDigitalSSD SBX 256GB NVMe drive -- Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) -- Corsair CX600 ATX Power Supply -- AZZA Blaze 231 RGB case

Actualizado por segunda y última ocasión :) *** Este fue mi primer armado. El procesador es excelente, de lo mejor que puede haber por tu dinero si eres alguien que aprovecha todos los cores. Si quieres jugar es mejor que te compres un R5 o 3 y el restante del dinero vaya a la gráfica. Lamentablemente mi enfriador vino defectuoso pues el anillo RGB no prendía completamente. Es algo menor y estético, pero se paga todo el precio. Por tanto, se espera que el producto funcione al 100%. Y más tratandose de la punta de lanza en la linea RYZEN. Sí es molesto y lo es más el tener que considerar volver a comprarlo separado (unos 1300 MXN) solo por este detalle, pero tampoco me agrada para nada el quedarme con el producto así. Investigaré sobre la garantía con fabricante pero no tengo grandes esperanzas, además de que tendría que quedarme sin CPU, y por lo tanto PC, por quiénsabe cuánto tiempo lo cual es muy inconveniente en mi caso que es mi herramienta de trabajo. Trataré de actualizar mi reseña conforme a lo que suceda. Gracias por leer. *** Actualización *** Parece que pequé de pesimista debido a malas experiencias anteriores con las garantías. He contactado directo con AMD (aunque el enfriador sea fabricado por CoolerMaster) a través de la pagina web. Les envié una imagen y descripción clara del problema. Tiempo después fui atendido por una agente de soporte, pidiendome un video demostrando el asunto. Pocos días después de enviado me confirma que enviaría la información internamente para su seguimiento. Esperé pacientemente y si bien no me han respondido, me encuentro con la grata sorpresa de un correo de envío DHL a mi dirección con la siguiente descripción: SAMPLE / WRAITH PRISM COOLER(SR4) No pensé que AMD hiciera RMAs avanzados (te envían el producto reemplazo primero) pero ya desde el vamos, por el hecho de que al parecer resolverán el problema sin complicación, estoy contento. **Actualización 2** AMD me reemplazó sin problema alguno el disipador no una, si no dos veces (aduana dañó el primero que enviaron) por medio de DHL en dos días. Estoy muy contento con ellos pues el producto no solo tiene un excelente valor si no que el servicio fue muy grato. No tuve que enviar mi pieza defectuosa ni dar mucha explicación mas que un video sencillo en el que mostré el defecto. Sin duda me quedaré en el equipo rojo para el futuro.

Bon article, envoi rapide et soigné.

+++ UPDATE September 2020 +++ Ich war etwas vorschnell bei der Bewertung der Lautstärke. Und zwar hatte ich noch einen (Marken-) Gehäuselüfter an die Temperatur der CPU gekoppelt. Dies habe ich erst 2 Wochen nach Einbau im BIOS gesehen. Mein Vorgänger Proz Ryzen 5 2600 kam fast nie auf hohe Temperaturen, vor allem nicht beim Idlen- deswegen nie gehört. Da dieser Kamerad ordentlich mehr Leistung aufnimmt und bekanntlich auch heißer arbeitet als sein kleiner Bruder, ist klar, dass der o.g. Lüfter ständig zwischen 1800 und 2300 rpm lief. Lüfter an Gehäusetemperatur gekoppelt --> Jetzt läuft das System deutlich leiser. Also: 5 Sterne :) Die Leistung ist spitze- keine Frage: ein großer Unterschied beim Zocken von FS2020 im Verlgeich zum Ryzen 5 2600 (das war u.a. der Grund für diesen Kauf...). Viel flüssigere Abläufe, nur noch wenige Ruckler CPU-bedingt. Viedobearbeitung 4k läuf super. Diverse Ladezeiten in Kombination mit SSD und schnellem 32GB Ram sind deutlich verkürzt. Die Beleuchtung ist schön, muss aber nicht sein. Sieht man bei mir kaum, da ich kein fancy Modder Gehäuse habe. Allerdings ist die Kombi nicht gut für den Idle Mode ausgelegt. Wie viele andere habe ich das Problem, dass ich ohne manuellem Eingriff in den Windows Energiesparoptionen keine stabile rpm des Lüfters hinbekam. Leistungsaufnahme bei Vollast ist der Wahnsinn- bei unzureichender Gehäusekühlung wird der bestimmt recht heiß. Musste für die Montage erst mein Mainboard umbauen (AMD Retention Modul anbringen). Das stand nirgends und hat mich zuerst ziemlich ins Schwitzen gebracht, da ich diese beiden Klammern 2 Stunden lange suchte :) ... Ergo kann ich den nur bedingt weiterempfehlen. Trotzdem in der Preisklasse gut!

Ainda não montei o PC, porém a entrega foi rápida e efetiva, assim que montar darei minha nota.

It's a super processer that you can get at this price point! It's blazing fast. The installation is bit frustrating especially mounting the heatsink, you have to try couple of times before easily putting it into place. Plus you have to be really careful while mounting, too much pressure can break the board/processor. The heatsink is super cool and massive, has RGB lighting as well. You need to upgrade to a water cooler only if you're planning to overclock the unit.