AMD's Most Exclusive CPU - Ryzen 5 5600X3D Review

the ryzen 5 5600x3D is likely the final CPU on the AM4 platform, aka AMD's last hurrah before jumping ship to AM5. definitely a weird launch given the processor is exclusively being sold through Micro Center for a limited time. without a doubt the 3DV technology does an impressive job of improving the smaller-cache counterparts, kudos to AMD for not just throwing away this extra silicone!

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0:00 5600X3D
0:36 Specs on paper
1:24 5600X3D gaming benchmarks
2:17 Use Case: upgrading AM4
2:58 5600X3D productivity benchmarks
3:25 Use Case: small form factor?
3:36 5600X3D thermal benchmarks
3:49 Use Case: starting fresh on AM4
5:00 Thoughts

[Diyomaro]

I was in that situation where I had a 2600, and wanted to give my board one last hurrah. I went with the 5600X. The $150 price made it a no brainer. I'll probably keep my current set up for 2-3 years

[justincowans]

Thank you for having a 5600x to compare this to!
I'm looking forward to more reviews in your channel.

[TBRANN]

I just got one online from Walmart within the last week! Crazy right, woke up early one morning and had a email about something I showed interest in being in stock from Walmart, so I grabbed it. I believe it was $192, but I had previously bought a bundle from micro center that you had in your video. Now that I've got two, I will upgrade my kids gaming pcs with these cpu's. I've personally already moved to AM5 with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D. These are fantastic value cpus for AM4 upgrades. Ryzen 7 5800x3d like performance while saving around $100 ish dollars👍

[west]

Just bought a 5700X for only 30$ more expensive than the 5600X . I thought I just missed out on the best AM4 upgrade but I'm from South Africa so I'm still happy. How does the 5600X3D compare to the 5700X?

[ZombieDontMiss]

Awesome video! As a PC builder who makes YouTube content myself, I love seeing creative videos like yours. You inspire me. Keep up the great work!

[micienz]

Problem number 1 its exclusive only on microcenter and 2nd there's no microcenter in Indonesia 😢

[kittenslayer]

My local MC has a deal were I could get the 5600x and a gigabyte b450m DS3H for $200 which puts the cpu at about $130 same price as the 5600, and I'll just get my brother to buy the mobo and give him my old cpu(3600xt) and spare 1650s while he saves money to upgrade to AM5 and whatever GPU is good in a couple of years. Saves him a bit of money and I'll teach him about pc's since it will be his first build and don't want him ruining expensive parts.

[treken]

I bought the bundle on sale for $299 and then sold the motherboard and ram for $175 so the CPU was worth it for me to have, even as a collector item lol.

[Error-rkdf]

Hey Mr Exotic Thermal Paste, I found out graphene was used in a few thermal application as a good heat spreader for example. Thing is its also used as a dry lubricant presumably due to smaller particle size and high brittleness. So naturally I have asked myself how good of a thermal paste it should be and I'm here asking you. I'm thinking doing what boys do in school, just filling up messy grey squares on paper with graphite pencils and doing so on your cpu.

[krtman]

This is a fantastic review, I think for my 5600x sff pc paired with a 7900xtx this will be a fantastic upgrade that will only cost me about 100 usd to buy once I sell my 5600x. I plan on picking one up and trying it out. I love how you talk about upgrading from older am4 to this chip as well. This represents a fantastic end of life cpu for anyone using a 3600x or older, and even a 3900x as well.

[tallpaul]

Geez, I dunno... I am saving so much money just hanging onto my old GTX 1080/i7 4790K combo. Unless something breaks, or something absolutely will not run on it (Windows 10), I guess I'll just keep on using my hardware. Really not needing anything newer for my needs, yet.

[Physics]

If you live within 100 miles of a MicroCenter its worth the road trip. You won't get this experience at a Best Buy and certainly not Amazon. Its old school service Old school tons of computer parts you can look at, pick up hold. Its like a theme park for computers. Make the trip before its all online.

I bought two of them one for my kid. Just finished building one of them. with 64 gigs of ram (32x2 pc3200 RGB) Put a big ak620 cooler on it 35c got it to 72c on some 100 percent all core benchmarks.
Put a 4070 in it and it hits like a hammer on games.

The Asus MB that comes with the bundle are built 3 months ago with latest BIOS. No need to update BIOS plug and play.

[bodasactra]

Considering he used an older RX 5700XT GPU and still had solid performance gains is surprising. Going up in GPU power really shows out the huge difference in gaming performance. That's the real advantage of the 5600X3D, it has the horsepower for several levels of GPU upgrade without worry of CPU bottleneck.

[capsulate]

Great video, you have a real knack for reviewing. The bundle mentioned is particularly good. You can't get any decent AM4 board for less than $80, even used. Sucks for me, since I want to upgrade to a full-size ATX board for the extra PCIe slots.

[rch]

Why plan on benchmarking starcraft 2? My previous laptop with a Pentium n3710 and no dgpu could run the game at 120ish frames.

[Stlxr.]

Hello i want to buy 1660super with 32gb ram and i9 11900 is it a good combination? Waiting for your suggests✨️

[mosho]

I am about to purchase the bundle next week, I’ll let y’all know how it goes

[DAXX-ot]

Very good video, thinks. Im go to sleep in 2:08am LeTs Go

[itsatrap]

C'mon AMD, make this a an option for the rest of us that doesn't have a MC locally. There's tons of us still on Zen and Zen+ that would happily upgrade our Also, make it at $200. $215 tops. $230 is steep especially without a cooler.

[MAHADEVBHAKTjanak]

Sir my CPU isn't opening it's Dell Vostro 3268 when opening it's shows 2-1 orange blink how can i fix it