THE RYZEN 9 7950X

As mentioned in my Ryzen 7 7700X review the lid of the 7000 Series CPUs looks quite different/unique.

In the above picture you can see an exposed view (de-lidded) of a 7000 Series Zen 4 CPU.

Once again if you happen to be wondering whether or not thermal paste will fall into these gaps, it doesn’t.

AMD has finally moved away from having the pins on/beneath their CPUs and has adopted the same design as Intel (having bend pins on one of their CPUs in the past this is a yes from me).

As with my Ryzen 7 7700X review for testing the 7000 Series Ryzen 9 7950X I'll also be using the X670E TAICHI motherboard by ASRock.

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

For this review 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 of course completes the system.