AMDRyzen 5 2600 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler - YD2600BBAFBOX

Purchased in 2019 for a pc build. I'm not a gamer and mainly use the pc for coding, browsing, and home utilities. My son does use the PC to play games on steam. I have a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 which even at the time I believe was a budget card but perhaps that is helping with the gaming stuff.At any rate the processor itself has been solid. I rely on the PC for work related tasks and it has so far ( knock on wood) not let me down. I would say after five years I have definitely got my money's worth.

Upgrading from a 10 year old PC which was a 2.20 Gz Dual-Core HP Pavilion to my first custom PC using this CPU as the center piece. It comes without saying that I was no longer being shackled down by the limitation of my old PC with my work flow and also the games I play multitasking with no issues. It's teamed up with an MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX 4G OC128-bit 4GB graphic card.There's tons of tests on how well this CPU performs with games especially mainstream games that I do not need to go into as I'm more into video stuff so watching YouTube videos in 1080p is something else coming from 480p tho without realizing it I still find myself watching in 480p at times. Old habits. Watching 1080p HEVC videos with no lag is again something else to behold, heck, Ryzen 5 2600 isn't on his final form yet with that stuff. [Edit Oct 2020] Viewing 4K YouTube videos is also no issues either. Exceptions of course is based on your internet speed's capacity to buffer fast. Not sure about watching in 4K HEVC video tho since my monitor is only 1080p.[Edit Oct 25, 2020] Video encoding can take 30 min to 10 hours depending on the length, resolution, and which chroma sampling profile is being used, any filters will add to the encoding time. A 24 min clip with veryslow or placebo settings (with filters) are no problem speed-wise with H.264 10 bit encodes. From either 4:2:0 or 4:4:4 chroma sampling profile finishes it up quick with 18 thread encoding speed! This coming from almost an entire day's worth on my old PC's pitiful 3 threads using the same settings. Regular H.264 8 bit will use 15 threads as its max (if --thread=0 is used) and will obviously be much faster then its 10 bit counterpart. I recommend trying out tesa + subme 11 mode with either profiles if time isn't an issue.Not tested it with HEVC as of yet.[Edit - Oct 25, 2020] A few sample tests using HEVC 4:4:4 720p with veryslow and sea mode settings (no tune) of a 24 min clip took about 2-13 hours depending on the amount of filters being applied (such as heavy-duty filters like Anti-Aliasing) with max 12 numa-pools (it's kinda like --thread in H.264 but not really?) if left at its default. The profile 8 bit, 10 bit, or 12 bit will either shorten or increase the time, However, the trade of will be higher quality such as more smoother gradients decreasing banding, color format (both at the cost of increased computation during playback) and of course the chroma sampling being used. Be mindful if your target is compatibility tho consult with the x265 documentation if interested especially with the release of HEVC 3.0 (GCC 8.3.0) which brings a number of changes such as the addition of the tune animation.To be noted all of this was done on a single Crucial 8GB DDR4 RAM which rarely hit 100% RAM output doing all of the above while encoding but I may add an additional 8/16 GB RAM in the future especially for any 1080p (and 4K) HEVC encodes, so you may want to increase your RAM if that's your target. Further note, if you watch streaming videos such as YouTube while waiting for your video to finish up be certain not to open so many browser tab. The RAM will increase closer to 100% if you've got just 8 GB, speaking from experience.I purchased this through the OutletPC seller and they were able to help me out on my concerns and questions as a first time CPU buyer though it wasn't the best of help it got the point across regarding the handling of the CPU and the chances of being a root cause when troubleshooting hardware issues getting the PC to boot properly.

Excente procesador Ryzen lo he usado en mi pc gamer por largo tiempo y me a dado un excelente servicio. Voy a hacer un upgrade a mi pc gamer y voy usar la misma marca me gusta mucho lo recomiendo.

Have had this in my budget pc build for years now and it's still running strong can play everything you need.

I replaced a 10 year old Core 2 Duo based system with a rig that sports the Ryzen 5 2600 at its core. After reading reviews, benchmark data, power usage data, etc. I decided I would finally give AMD a try. I used to shy away from AMD because there wouldn't be enough of a price differential in AMD's favor to justify moving to AMD. I have no regrets replacing my media server with this solution and here's why:* Power: Six cores and 65W rating means the purchase price alone will be offset by power savings in the first 18-24 months.* Speed: Six cores x 3.4GHz processing speed will drastically reduce the time to transcode videos and increase the number of clients I can support with my Plex server, while serving up all the other services I run on the box.* Value: Six cores from the competitor will run about $100 more for the CPU alone. Add the extra 30W (95W TDP vs. 65W TDP) and the power bill for the competitor equivalent will be about 35-45% higher. I also read somewhere that AMD hasn't been changing the socket requirements and forcing users to buy new motherboards with subsequent processor generations, which is yet another plus as long as this holds true (and is technically feasible).The only word of caution I have is this: If you're performing a new build and don't have any older AM4 CPUs lying around, I highly recommend checking your potential choice of motherboard for processor compatibility prior to ordering. I chose a B350 board and had to get a boot kit from AMD to facilitate a BIOS update to make this CPU work with it. This oversight cost me more time and hassle since I was unwilling to seek out or pay for alternative solutions to my issue. In the future, I'll be sure to check the vendors' support sites and make sure I buy a motherboard that supports the CPU from its "Base" BIOS version.My only complaint is that the hold-down screws for the heatsink have too much spring tension, which makes threading into the backing plate a bit challenging. I also ended up rotating the fan 90 degrees on the heatsink so that the logo would not obstruct the DIMM slot. I could have oriented the cooler's logo over the heatsink on the opposite side by rotating the cooler 180 degrees instead but felt it was worth the effort to "fool-proof" myself.I have a 3rd generation i7-based PC that I will more than likely replace with the AMD Ryzen 5 in the near future. In fact, I look forward to it.

I like the product but there was a bit of false advertising in the product description it said it would come with the cpu,cooler,box but I only ended up getting the cpu no big deal but it was the main reason I purchased the item but all in all good service and it came in amazing condition no bent pins