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5.0 out of 5 starsHasn't failed me in games, streaming, photo-editing, etc.
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018
The Ryzen 7 1800X has been an incredible upgrade for my new photo-editing (and future video-editing) workstation, way above and beyond the i5 I've been working with in my iMac for 8 years. I was worried at first about the higher voltage, but everything has been running without a hitch for over a month, so I expect it to continue past the one-year mark this way. I combined this processor with the ASUS Prime X370-Pro motherboard (X370 chipset for solid expansion, seeing as I expected to need a wifi card, sound card, and capture card in time) and the combo worked perfectly on first boot.
I experimented with streaming Fallout 4 at 1080p highest graphics settings and high encoding, with ~25% CPU utilization in OBS, with FO4 only occasionally falling to 45-50 fps. Raw photo editing performance has been fantastic too, with the only bottleneck seeming to be PCIe and SATA write times for huge files. The real test will be with video-editing as I hope to expand into that type of work soon, one of the reasons besides stream transcoding I decided on multicore performance over single-core performance of Intel.
Even though the processor was shipped separately from the rest of my parts for my workstation and wasn't set to be expedited, it ended up coming within a couple days, earlier than everything else. That was a pleasant surprise. I definitely recommend ordering from OutletPC, everything worked out so well.
Parts used in combination with the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X:
ASUS Prime X370-Pro motherboard
be quiet! BK021 Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler Fan
32GB (2x16GB) Kingston Technology HyperX FURY Black 2666MHz DDR4
Intel SSD 760P Series (256GB, M.2 80mm PCIe 3.0 x4, 3D2, TLC)
Crucial MX300 120GB SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC GAMING ACX 2.0 6GB GDDR5
Seasonic FOCUS Plus 850 Platinum SSR-850PX 850W 80+ Platinum ATX12V & EPS12V Full Modular power supply
EDUP Wifi Card AC1200Mbps 2.4GHz/5GHz Dual Band PCI Express (PCIe) Wireless Adapter Network Card