Customer Ratings & Reviews

Perfect CPU for any games and it was extremely easy to put in my computer!

Best Buy did an amazing job with their bot protection, the system was great and the website didn't even crash once, not to mention they had the most stock I've seen. This thing is a beast for 1080P gaming, paired with my H100i, I can't even get it over 62C while gaming. It does anything I want it to and has a score almost 3X my previous score in 3DMark. The only thing I could see be a problem with this is the lack of cores, however since I'm simply gaming it won't be an issue for me.

Perfect budget CPU. Really powerful for the price. Good for both gaming and work.

Hard to find available but very fast and efficient chip with low power draw. Only 6 cores. Included cooler is fine but not great. If you prefer silence you'll need a bigger cooler. Overall good value but $100 more than last gen is a bit expensive.

I have used a lot of different cpus these are excellent for the price

Very nice cpu. Lots of bang for the buck, the wraith cooler that comes with it is mediocre tho

Great price to performance. Pairs great with a 6600 xt or a 6700 xt

Really fast and an amazing chip and would recommend for a cheap but powerful pc

Best cpu right now for gaming. The value you can get from this cpu is suprsing (oc this cpu can give you better performance in gaming compare to 5900x & 5950x).

Perfect mid range cpu for a mid range build. Also it’s a good bang for your buck compared to the Intel 12th Gen comparison

Best value to performance. CPU you can get from AMD. What I like about this model over the Ryzen 7 series is that the Ryzen 5 uses much less power and performs very similarly when not needing the extra cores. To a majority of the population, you will still be able to play your video games or long computing power sessions, without really feeling like you're sacrificing anything. When you get into the benchmarks, I think you already know what you're looking for...the Ryzen 5 5600X is the sweetspot between performance and price for probably a vast majority of people out there.

5600X performs great in benchmarks & games, clearly mitigating FPS dips more than before and pushing more FPS to strategy & simulation games that my i5 3570K would have choked on. The "IPC uplift" that AMD marketed as better architecture resulting better performance is very real. Overclocking is not very clear outside of PBO with some mobos, but totally possible especially with some motherboard tools. I was so glad this came with a basic wraith cooler and one pre applied application of basic thermal paste. It will hold me over with little to no overclocking until I can get an aftermarket cooler. Regarding motherboard compatability: Make sure to get one with "BIOS Flashback" that allows BIOS update from USB drive without booting the PC. Otherwise, you will need an older compatable AMD CPU to boot to BIOS, then update it. AMD may have a CPU loaner program for this purpose, and some PC shops will take care of this update for you.

Processor was a great price and in high demand, got it for $300 on sale and couldn't be happier with my speeds now

Great processor for a great price. Arguably best processor you can buy in $300 range. Also great that it includes good stock cooler!

great product. so much faster than my old processor and makes games lightning fast.

This is a good cpu for gaming, and in general pretty much everything else. Runs cool also

Terrific balance between performance, speed, value, and productivity. Great for gaming.

Great CPU, works really well. was a true upgrade from my old Intel.

Great CPU. Very fast and great for gaming. Great service from Best Buy and they shipped it fast

great Cpu for the price, can be paired with most graphics cards except the most high end ones above the $600 price range with just barely a small bottleneck or non at all. doesn't put out too much heat, even a 120mm aio can keep it quite cool during gaming.