Coming from a much beefier Gen 12 i7, I was expecting a bit of a performance hit. This chip has performed admirably. It's efficient, fast, runs cool and the absence of a couple of cores really hasn't been noticeable during my usual workloads (I don't have comparative benchmarks and am only basing this opinion off of vibes, mostly).

Paired this with a new 9070xt and so far its running games very well and seems like im not being bottlenecked by the cpu. Price was reasonable and so far so good - happy days.

Very happy with this CPU bundled with 9600xt 16GB , handles the latest AA games with no issues

Very happy with my order as usual thank you wootware.

I would definitely recommend this hardware very impressed with it's performance. using it primarily for gaming

Runs all Games Max Settings without issue, including newer games like BF6, it also does not bottleneck my 7900 GRE.
All issues with spikes and lag I had previously with my 5600x has been completely removed with this 9600x.
The price is also great.

Highly recommended.

I came from AM4, running a 5800x. The initial uplift wasn't that great, but once I applied PBO, undervolted and OC'd, I was boosting to 5.6GHz SC and my 9070XT was able to stretch its legs significantly further @ 1440p, especially the 1% lows. Unfortunately, I'm unable to get my memory to run at the advertised 6000MHz(the sweet spot for Zen 5), only 5800MHz CL30, via EXPO/XMP or manual tuning), so I think I drew the short straw when it came to the silicone lottery, the IMC is just not having it.
The plan is to hold onto this one until the new gen of X3D chips come out next year.

Great service from Wootware as always!

A really solid choice when buying a new CPU. No noticeable performance difference from the 7600X. The 9600X runs a lot cooler and uses less power than its predecessors.

Really nice for a workstation. Windows 11 is snappy and responsive, apps launch quickly, etc.
It's even powerful enough for some light gaming using the on-die GPU cores.

Got the Ryzen 5 9600x CPU on a Gigabyte Aorus Elite Wifi 7 Ice MB, 32Gb of ADATA XPG Lancer DDR5 Ram running at 6000MT using AMD EXPO, Cooled by a White Arctic LF3 360mm AIO which was all purchased from Wootware. Came from a i7 6700 cpu and can say the gaming performance is way better, Using a 1660ti GPU, It runs Monster Hunter Wilds which was included with the purchase of the CPU, Clair Obscur Expedition 33, A Plague Tale without any issues although a better GPU is way overdue on my end. I initially had an issue once I received all my hardware to start my build. The only existing components I added was a 1200 Watt Coolermaster PSU, A Seagate Firecuda PCIE4 NVME 1Tb Drive, 2Tb Seagate mechanical sata drive and an Asus 1660Ti GPU. Once everything was assembled, I powered it on, made sure everything was detected and present in the bios. I made no changes in the bios like overclocking/undervolting or enabling the overclocked memory profiles as I wanted the OS to be installed without any issues. When installing the Windows 11 files it went quick until it got to the point where it asks you to name the PC then going on to download updates, this is where the problem started, Step 1 completed to 100% but then I got a BSOD and the system restarted, when I tried the OS install again the same thing happened, stopped at 100% then BSOD, this happened a few times. I made sure Secure Boot was enabled as well as TPM. The error messages became random like rt640x64.sys failure, Clock watchdog timeout, kmode exception not handled, Hypervisor error, IRQ not less or equal, I then enabled virtualization in the bios but that didn help either. Most time BSOD's blame ram and device drivers so I checked to make sure the ram is seated correctly in Slot A2 and B2, I even tried A1 and B1 but nothing. I then continued to update the Bios from Gigabyte's official page from F1 to F2 and F3 but that didn help either. I knew the sticker at the bottom of the cold plate on the AIO was removed and I can see the temps in the Bios which idled at about 29 degrees all the time so it was clear the cpu wasn overheating. I then tried installing windows 10 as I have copy of that available, but it failed after copying the files. I then removed the Dimm from B2 with 1 remaining in A2 and the Windows 10 installation completed without any issues. I then thought maybe the 1 stick was bad so I tried installing Windows 11 again but unfortunately it happened again everytime with BSOD and a random error code. I then installed windows 10 again and it completed with the 1 Dimm. Once Windows was installed all the drivers was downloaded and installed, there was a few random BSOD's but it would boot back up, once all the drivers was installed I shut it down and inserted the 2nd Dimm which booted into Windows, I though maybe it will just work so I continued to install my xbox games and steam games and some apps like Cinebench/Unigine Valley and Superposition, CrystalDisk Mark, MSI Afterburner with some minor crashes in between. The Gigabyte Control Centre was also responsible for a lot of crashes as per Windows Event Viewer so I removed that as well as some other Gigabyte utilities that was installed automatically by its Live update service. I ran Superposition and Valley benchmark a few times with way better results compared to my previous 6th gen I7 system and it completed without any issues. Cinebench completed a single and multicore bench test without also crashing. Benched the SSD with Crystal Mark and that also completed without issues. I spent a few minutes in COD BO6 Benchmarking about 5 runs testing with different upscaling techniques and all finished without issues as well as about 3 benchmark runs in Forza motorsport. The error messages and reason in Event Viewer wasn much help either and the honestly the blue screening was really annoying and similar posts on Microsoft's Forums wasn helpful, I downloaded Memtest and ran the test for about 3 hours in uefi mode and there was zero errors. I did not have another CPU, motherboard or ram to test or PSU to test, I tried another 2 hard disks but resulted in the same issue, random blue screens, sometimes it will start as soon as enter the desktop or sometimes after a few minutes. I had no bloatware installed, cleared the cmos didn help either, tried alternating the dimms to narrow it down, when in the bios there is no issues it works like it is supposed to, I tried another nvme slot, I have removed the gpu and used onboard graphics but that didn help. Tried installing windows from multiple usb ports, tried enabling csm in bios and windows image using mbr after gpt didn work. Contacted Wootware Support and they assisted me with the RMA process, ended up sending the cpu/ram and mb back and they found the CPU was bad and replaced it. I can however say that prior to sending the components back I tried decreasing the multiplier from stock 39x which is 3.9GHz to 30x which is 3GHz somewhat solved the issue but doing this caused the cpu not to boost so I can assume this cpu was just bad silicon. Overall the shopping experience is always a breeze and once again Thanks Wootware for your awesome customer service.

Built a 9070XT setup with this cpu and it's perfect! No bottlenecking, cpu runs insanely cool at 55 degrees average while gaming and the highest I saw it go after a few hours is about 63 degrees(I do have a montech 360 liquid cooler). Got this for the same price as the 7600x with better performance and power usage. Would recommend! Thanks Wootware for the great service

So the 9600X is a processor focussed entirely on power efficiency. This is great for me as someone who likes that sort of stuff, but if you're looking for raw beastly performance, you'll want to go up a few tiers.

The 9600X performs extremely well for my uses of daily tasks and gaming and occassional Linux-based code compilation, but the real star here is the way this chip runs so cool. The Zen 4 7x00 series was known for high heat, and the fact AMD managed to completely erase that issue, bring TDP down, and *still* achieve a 5% average performance gain isn't to be scoffed at.
Especially if you're building small form factor.

The chip on most BIOSes also has an option to increase the cTDP to 105w, but this does less than on the 9700X. It brings multi-threaded up a small amount, but only like 5-7%.

With all that said, it's really, really good for daily tasks, productivity, code compilation (ESPECIALLY on Linux), and its outrageously good at gaming.

Running this 9600x with 6000MHz ddr5. It runs really fast!

In task manager it often says 5.4GHz when gaming and idles at 4.6-4.8GHz on desktop. I have a pretty cheap 4 pipe tower cooler from deep cool, nothing fancy. One thing I noted these new ryzen cpus, they like to run hot. comfortably running at 75-85 degrees during gaming where my previous i5 11400 with the same tdp ran 55-65 degrees. do not be alarmed, even if you put a fancy cooler they going to keep trying to boost faster and get hot anyways. I recommend tunning your fan curve to be silent up to 65 degrees and ramp up to a comfortable volume at 75 degrees then to a volume which is comfortable with headphones playing at 85 degrees. moving from an intel system to an AMD system I even saw benefit to my 6600xt's performance thanks to AMD's smart access memory synergy.

PS the free game monster hunter wilds' performance and graphics fidelity is atrocious on pc and should not sway your decision to purchase the CPU, look it up on YouTube and you will see what I mean :/

Getting steady frames and the cpu paired with ddr5 ram is just amazing. At the moment it is getting bottle necked by my gpu, but will upgrade soon.
This cpu do need a beefy gpu to extract it max potential, just keep that in mind.

Loving this CPU and I may be wrong but all 9000AMD cores seem to be very similar in performance. Super low power usage and decent temps with Cooler Mater Hyper 212. For the price I would recommend this core for future proofing system for probably almost any GPU, I am running a 7700xt with no bottlenecks. Probably would recommend a 7800xt or probably easily a 7900xt if you budget allows. Running ram at 6000mhz stable but I down clocked the RAM to the recommended 5600mhz of the CPU and runs great. YES, AMD IS THE BEST.