
Today, we’re going to show you the best air and AIO coolers to pair with AMD’s latest Ryzen 5 5600X – ensuring that you’re extracting as much performance from this powerful CPU as possible.įor those of you willing to opt for closed-loop AIO coolers for the Ryzen 5 5600X, we recommend the $120 EVGA CLC 240 RGB.

So if you’re not terribly keen on building a completely new computer anytime soon, get the best one you can now with Zen 3, because things are going to change pretty drastically starting next year. We’re on the cusp of a new type of RAM (which means a new pinout), and the eventual standardization of PCIe 4.0. This is incredibly important to understand, since the AM4 socket is now end-of-life outside of any refreshes AMD might provide for Zen 3. Thanks to AMD keeping it’s promise to support the same socket until Zen 3, as well as it’s ability to flatline their TDPs, members of Team Red can start looking to save money for the next generation of hardware like DDR5 memory and whatever new CPU socket AMD develops for Zen 4 right after they upgrade to a Zen 3 processor. While Intel has had to resort to every engineering trick in the book with their 14nm process to improve performance, AMD continues to refine and maximize their chiplet design and process architecture, all while keeping power efficiency and consumption identical to their previous generation! That’s a marvellous prospect for any would-be adopter of Zen 3, because it means that your entire system is just a CPU swap away from being entirely finished and ready to rumble until it’s time to build a completely new rig. Which means Intel’s last vestige of superiority might have finally been destroyed until they’re able to finally strike back and get off of their ancient 14nm process!Īgain, AMD’s achievement with Zen 3 should not be understated. Especially when considering that AMD may have just finally caught up to Intel in single-threaded performance. That’s not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination.

The long and short of it is: Zen 3 has the same or lower TDP than Zen 2, a new architecture, and the benefit of their new unified eight-core CCXs (core complexes) with shared 32MG 元 caches which all allow it to boost performance up to 19% over Zen 2.

We’ve made it folks! AMD’s initial Zen 3 lineup has been revealed, and it’s a doozy.
