THE RYZEN 7 7700X

I don't really know why AMD chose to use such a shape for the lid of their 7000 Series CPUs but i like it.

When i first saw this design i was curious as to whether or not thermal paste would fall into these gaps (it didn't, at least not during my tests).

AMD has finally moved away from having the pins on/beneath their CPUs and has adopted the same design as Intel (and yes, that's a very good thing).

Here you can see an exposed view (de-lidded) of a 7000 Series CPU.

For testing the 7000 Series Ryzen 7 7700X I'll be using the X670E TAICHI motherboard by ASRock (review soon).

As you can all see the AM5 socket is virtually identical to the AM4 one so most CPU coolers in the market are probably already compatible (had no problem using the Celsius+ S36 Prisma with its AM4 bracket).

For this test I’ll also be using the EXPO compatible Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 32GB 6000MHz CL30 kit by GSkill and the NFP425 2TB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD by Neo Forza.

The HOF GeForce RTX 3080 Ti OC Labs Edition is here to complete the system.