Is it badass? It's pretty bad ass. My full review is linked below:
First off, specs of the CPU:
Overclocking of the CPU: Pretty low ceiling of 4.2-4.5 if you are lucky, I personally sat around 4 ghz with XFR enabled on air cooling. However, every single mhz you can get makes a MASSIVE difference in performance.
So the TLDR I get from the reviews so far is.. Intel if your gaming, Ryzen if your using Multi-threaded applications? Glad to see the market getting on fire again!
no.. well kinda there is one single application where the 7700k is better and that is when overclocked to 5 ghz because the single thread at that point is higher otherwise... 1800x is better in every regard.
Basically... for anything over 4 Ghz on all cores and you are going to need some epic cooling to keep the thing cool.
My air cooler can just barely handle 4 ghz, and it is an enermax t40 AIO... idk yet. have to get a mounting kit for my AIOs to work.
Actually doing the overclocking is the easist thing i have ever done lol, just set the target speed in the BIOS, set the volts so it doesn crash, and boom.
There was talk all over the technology news sites before launch that the Ryzen was suffering in 3D results. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how it wont be any good for gaming, how the single core performance isn't a match for the Intel's so you'll be really disappointed if you plan to game on it. Blah blah blah. That's why we test first, then tell you what we think, rather than regurgitate 3rd hand news like a cow chewing its way through the fourth stomachs worth of cud. We bring you accurate findings, all other websites are left with a mouth full of sick and a guilty look for having plagiarised each other.
looks like in real world gaming benchmarks it does clearly fall way behind. In synthetics its a beast though. Also AMD's hyperthreading appears to be gimping its performance in a lot of games.
