AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Review
General Overview – continued
As much as this review is all about the CPU, the chipset features and motherboards play a huge role in overall platform appeal. In this regard AMD has improved on the previous generation CPUs by including native USB3.2 support and of course the big seller PCIe Gen4. Currently only AMD has PCIe Gen 4 GPUs, but they aren’t really able to show the advantage the new interconnect specification offers (Assuming it would be there anyway with any other GPU).
Right now, it’s mainly storage devices, like the one Corsair Force MP600 which supports PCIe Gen4. In future this will be more useful of course, but right now it’s appeal or utility rather is fairly limited outside of storage.
At present, the go to motherboard or chipset rather of choice is the X570. The motherboards based on this chipset have proved fairly robust for the most part, but the vast majority seem to be dealing with chipset temperatures using a small high-speed fan. Initially these caused a racket, but with some UEFI updates, we can at the very least set the chipset fan speeds.
Overall, the platform is pretty solid and the CPU as such manages to stretch its proverbial legs in more than just outright performance gains over the previous generation. More now than ever, I do believe there’s not much if anything at all sacrificed in operating a Ryzen based system for gaming, productivity or just about anything else you could use a PC for.
Gaming performance was too much of a compromise before and for some productivity applications, the low single thread performance and in particular poor AVX performance prevented some (myself included) from outright recommending an AMD build. That’s all changed now especially with the introduction of the Ryzen 7 3800X.
