I love my 1800x Got it running at 4Ghz on all 8 cores, and it has boosted my video editing a huge amount. Multicam editing is no issue. Now I need faster HDDs to keep up. Gaming on it as well is awesome, need a better GPU to really push it. Totally love it and the service from Wootware is unbeatable as well.

If you have been looking at Ryzen products this year then you would probably know that you could overclock a 1700x and doing so could allow it to perform just as well as the 1800x; however, the 1800x has that OC'd 1700x performance right out of the box. Regardless this CPU is just as good as the 1700x. I develop software and I do a lot of 3D and 2D graphics programming so I regularly push this to the limit and from short time time with it my temps have never went over 67 degrees. It also performs wonderfully in gaming applications (just pair it with a decent GPU) and yes it is outperformed by Intel's coffelake i7 and 7700k (better single thread performance) but when it comes to 4k content this cpu shines brilliantly. Early this year many people had to buy am4 brackets for their AIO coolers if they wanted to use it with ryzen, but recently companies have been putting these brackets in the boxes of their coolers and have been placing "AM4 COMPATIBLE" stickers on the box, so thats a good thing. In short, great value for money, good temps and a good choice for gaming and intensive workloads like 3D graphics programming and rendering - a very good all rounder. I highly recommend it

Pros: Price to performance is great, temperatures are acceptable, just feels amazing to open task manager and see 16 threads barely doing anything.

Cons: Getting an AM4 bracket if you want to do water cooling to keep it cool
XFR (extended frequency range) seems to have disappeared on mine, not sure what happened but it rarely goes above 3.6GHz, I'll troubleshoot that at some stage, maybe swap to my original board again.
You will need to push your DDR4 ram frequency up to get more performance.

**DOES NOT INCLUDE A COOLER
Thoughts: It is not a record breaker for games. Go get a i7-7700k if you want that.
No, This is a work horse, plowing through games, video rendering, VM's, basically anything multi-threaded.
Would you notice the difference in everyday use between a 6900k and an 1800x? I doubt you would but your wallet would thank you on this choice, I mean I built a whole computer (minus GPU) for the price tag of the 6900k
This CPU clocks roughly 90% the performance of the 6900k, but costs about 40% the price.

I am in no position to recommend this to studios for heavy rendering on any OS other than Windows (No idea how good Linux support is just yet)

Great processor when you do both work and gaming on your PC or any other intensive task.

I do Software development, Game development and play games on it and it just tears through everything without breaking a sweat.

Proper cooling and RAM is a must for this chip as you need to keep the 8 cores fed with data to get the most out of the chip and when it overclocks itself the temperature jumps are relatively large and instant when not properly cooled.