AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Unlocked Processor

I used this processor to bring my sister’s R5 1600 out of the stone age. Unfortunately, BIOS upgrades bricked her motherboard (not the fault of the CPU, bricking is unfortunately common for this series of motherboards, because Gigabyte did a horrible job), and I had to replace it, but the processor itself is dirt cheap compared to anything in its performance range, and is a solid upgrade to previous generation AM4 processors. Just make sure that your motherboard’s BIOS will support it, or that you are comfortable updating your BIOS to one that will support it. And if you have a Gigabyte, and they require you to do two firmware updates and two BIOS updates to get there – rethink it.

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First delivery came with bent pins in the CPU. After returning and getting a new one it came in pristine condition. Works well!

This Processor to many people on the outside, may just seem like an everyday use one. When in reality much like the Series AMD has always used where it has an “X” or a “G” on the end of the model, it’s not associated to gaming or even for heavy workloads like AutoCAD. When in reality this CPU for the asking price of under 100$ is an absolute tank.

There are a few problems, but that’s mainly related to OS stuff. A good example is Windows 10 this was idling at 47C-50C with no load, just the OS. I believe that cause Windows has become unbelievably bloated and had it doing unnecessary loads. The other is that, the stock fan it comes with, don’t trust it. The fan given is alright at best, but once your PC start multi-tasking and putting a proper load on it, even worse when Turbo is on. The fan will not keep at all. Plus the Thermal compound on the fan, don’t trust that as well. Not enough paste on it, so wipe it off with alcohol and use MX-4 or something similiar.

The processor is fully compatible with whatever route you take whether it’s virtual machine, Linux, Windows. It has very high performance and damn near an endless possible compatibility. I run on it on Linux, which fixed my load issue and it has been amazing ever since. Especially considering out of the box you are told you have full control of the Processor’s speed and power, which is greatly welcomed if you have a power supply that can’t handle a full load.

Highly recommended whether it be an upgrade or building a PC, especially if you’re short from grabbing the newer series. I can guarantee that this one will carry for quite awhile.

For me CPUs like this, which are budget CPUs are mostly about the price. For $100 USD or less this is an excellent buy. If it’s more than that, uhhhh. I’ll take the 5600 for $130 Bob.

While this is a Zen 3 CPU, it’s not PCIe gen4 and you should be aware of this before buying. It’s not the same line of CPU that most Zen 3 CPUs which are Vermeer. This is Cezanne. There are 3 Cezanne CPUs, the other two are OEM only, meaning they only come in a PC you buy from a company that makes PCs like Dell, etc…….. For the most part this isn’t a problem because it’s a budget CPU, however if you pair this with something like an AMD Radeon 6500 XT which only uses 4 PCIe lanes to connect to the CPU, you’ll get bad performance. So don’t do that.

Otherwise as long as you pair this with at least an 8 PCIe lane GPU it works fine. You take a tiny hit in GPU performance but not enough to worry about.

The bigger hit comes with the NVMe drives, especially in 2023 and going forward. There are now MANY NVMe disks that are a lot faster than 4GB/s, and to give as simple explanation as I can, a PCIe lane is a serial data line. The way a PCIe device/bus works is by grouping a certain amount of lanes so that you get the speed of a single PCIe lane times the number of lanes you have. Any NVMe disk has 4 lanes. It also means the port you plug it into along with what it connects to (CPU, motherboard chipset) has 4 PCIe lanes that it will connect with. So, you get 4 PCIe lanes. So now you need to know the data speed for each lane. For PCIe gen3, the speed of each lane is 1GB/s. For PCIe gen4 the speed of each lane is 2GB/s. So, with this CPU, the best you can get is a data transfer rate of 4GB/s to an NVMe disk. That’s it. The newest disks coming out the end of 2022, and 2023 can hit speeds near 9GB/s. Now, most data transfers to/from NVMe disks can’t run at that speed. However many disks can run many data transfers faster than 4GB/s, so that means a CPU that runs PCIe gen3 is slowing down modern NVMe disks that can run gen4 or now gen5 speeds. But that’s not a statement that has a clear meaning, because just because a disk is called gen4, it doesn’t mean most of the data transfers to/from that disk will run at the full bandwidth of PCIe gen4 x4 lanes = 8GB/s. Most gen4 disks rarely hit that speed if ever. Only the most expensive ones do. BUT once again many will run different types of transfers above 4GB/s.

So that’s the description of what it means to have PCIe gen3 when dealing with modern NVMe disks. You’re going to slow down some of the data transfers, not all, depending on how fast (which also means more expensive) the disk is.

Yes for a general purpose PC build this is good enough and it’s a low cost option that’s really good at $100 USD or less. However if the price of this starts to get closer to the Ryzen 5600, I’d rather buy the 5600 because that’s PCIe gen4 which is as good as it gets with an AMD AM4 motherboard.

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