The first Ryzen had its dramas as well but they turned out to be a game changer. With that Said.. most people expected the AM5 7xxx to be the same game changer.
However, the story is different now, Ryzen CPUs already mastered the chiplet design and the 16cores of the 7950X are a true force to be reckon with. They will stomp anything and sometimes even a 4090 can bottleneck the CPU.
Still, 7xxx are the first gen of AM5 and growing pains are expected, the IMC for example.
The exploding CPU was not easy to digest but was also overly hyped. Enabling EXPO gave us like 1,48v on vSoC, a tad too much. Since then, I've manually adjusted mine to 1,18v running EXPO 6000 without a problem. The failure rate was actually pretty insignificant.
The boot Times, not sure what to say here. I do get more boot time than AM4 but thats on ASUS. When they decide to fix that MCR like other brands did, its pretty on par with AM4. Got a video showing it. If you go with 128gb, well.. then expect higher boot times but Intel does the same. Guess that DDR5 has a long way to go to.
Conclusion, with your system a 5800X3D is almost a mandatory upgrade for games to come.
But AM5 is just amazing. I'm glad and honored to use it, games run like a charm and video editing is like a breeze.
You can check my RAPHAEL topic for more details.
Local IT gives the AM5 7950X a score of 101 out of 100.
The Englishman
