never used a 5900x

i used a 1600, 5600 and moved a 7800x3d

only thing i know for amd right now, 9800x3d with certain motherboard may need precaution whether work or not. asrock major red flag. 7800x3d series no issue, other than the design runs hotter than the 9000 series which fixed that.

i think there was a recent refresh for their other offerings. pcbuyers will mention it on their youtube probly.

i'm not aversed to intel if they have a good product for the right price. but since i upgraded last year 2025, i'm good for now ^^;

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Apr 11 2026, 11:45 AM

Next gen will go multi-gen socket. Hope the rumors are true.

Have been using Ryzen since first-gen 1700 ->3900X -> 5900X -> 9800X3D -> 9950X3D, and I’ve never run into the issues people often complain about, USB problems, AGESA bugs, etc.

Even with my current 9950X3D and previous 9800X3D, I’m running a non-EXPO G.Skill Trident Z RGB 24GB kit that I carried over from my previous 13900K machine. I just tuned it manually to 6000MHz CL28, and it’s been completely stable.

I even finished the entire Resident Evil Requiem recently without any instability issue.

So I’m not sure if those problems come down to user setup/configuration, or if some people are just unlucky with the hardware they get.

Early AM5 7000series had CPU burnout due to Asus mobo.

AMD Ryzen gods are smiling upon you. Lisa Su thanks you for your devotion.

My 1700 to 3900X, 8700F stable.

5900X bad (there are even numerous complaints online). Seen 5950X not even stable on first boot.

I have 7-port powered USB 3.0 hub as well. If you think this is the problem, tell that to AMD. Absolutely no dropouts on Intel.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Apr 11 2026, 04:38 PM

I'm will never using that type of device hence why should i tell AMD? lol...

i wasn't aware of this, thx for the share.

i skipped asus this time around. went msi first time

- ethernet wonky. 5gbe but felt buggy. my solution, use a pcie add on card sfp+ 10g to replace it
- audio chip questionable, but i use edifier integrated on my speaker dac so i cannot confirm if got fix from driver updates
- wifi 7 issues. recent drivers fixed this for me. initially though this get causing crashes.

- the pcie lane issue. i donno if this is amd or just specific to this motherboard. but on cold boot it would sometimes downgrade pcie lanes, meaning the performance of your graphic card tanks. got fixed in a recent bios update.


right now is stable for my system msi x870 tomahawk wifi paired with amd 7800x3d cpu, kingston fury beast ddr5 6000mhz ram, radeon rx7800xt



actually... when building my truenas 4u rack server, the tn community recommended i get an intel cpu. for the low power consumption.

but i got an amd instead.

this truenas rack is run 24/7 (goldeye release) but still low power consumption (i undervolted), not heat issues (refer to the pic), no crashes, totally stable. running 10+ docker containers. tbh this is overkill for a NAS. the only times the cpu % increases is when i am doing stuff like immich or jellyfin catalogue indexing. but i have no issues running whatever i want.



amd 7600 using an MSI tomahawk motherboard. no i did not use ecc ram, could not find any for a nice price..... I almost got an asrock because of their ecc ram support, but considering the bad news for them recently, i skipped them



the other reason they recommended intel was for IPMI, which is important for network admins to remote troubleshoot their servers. But jetkvm can achieve a similar result without having to get an intel just for that. this is why i was perfectly going amd for tn.





for myself, general computing, amd. gaming, amd. truenas server, amd. so when i recommended, is because i use for all these scenarios and am currently on AM5 socket. so i'm talking from own experience

the stability tests i did

- for desktop pc, i undervolted and used OCCT and cinebench. -20 all cores, stable. -30 crash so i did not win the cpu lottery unfortunately, but still -20 is ok if not great result.

- truenas, running 24/7 stable, no crashes. also undervolted.


so when i'm talking about stability, this is what i'm referring to, based on my own experience. though u may hear some stories about amd 9800x3d on asrock and some mobos. that's why i mentioned to stay cautious if u get that particular cpu as it may or may not have issues depending on the motherboard of choice


this may change depending on whats available at the time i'm out shopping. but currently i'm on amd and it's good so far

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Apr 12 2026, 06:45 AM