The reviews that are out there already are less than stellar, to say the least. Gamers Nexus in particular reported memory related issues, where they're not sure whether it's an issue with the CPUs themselves, the motherboards, and or the BIOS. AMD delaying the release suggests that it has something to do with it, but we'll have to wait until we learn more. My personal take upfront: In a way this is what people wanted, that hardware out of the box wasn't drawing copious amounts of power any more as we've had seen with other products, in particular with NVIDIAs graphics card that draw so much current over a (not well thought out connector in my opinion as a formal electrical engineer), that it still has connectors melting and burning today. But on the other hand, people have gotten used to almost every bit processing capability being squeezed out of the hardware with default settings already. I can see both perspectives here and the only thing that I would want is that we get some readily available "turbo button" that lets the user choose which way to go. Here's two reviews of the Ryzen 7 9700X from the two major computer hardware review channels on youtube in my opinion. In chronological order of being published on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_bMt9fVm0 -- Hardware Unboxed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rttc_ioflGo -- Gamers Nexus For some reason Spectrum does not like my YT links, tells me "Url is not a video or gifv or rich". Now I find both the thumbnail and the title of Hardware Unboxed a bit dramatic. Looking at the data, it's neither a flop, nor sucks. More like how Gamers Nexus put it "fine" but "meh". That is to say, I suppose a lot of people expected some more significant performance gains compared to Ryzen 7000, while we mostly see a reduction in power and associated temperatures (which are also measured differenetly now and don't allow a 1:1 comparison with previous generations). Power draw and temperatures are still lowered due to the smaller process node for this generation. That got me wondering how much of an overlocking headroom there might be. Hardware Unboxed did test a bit with the PBO feature, but deemed it not making much of a difference overall. Then within the same hour but a bit later overclocker and youtuber der8auer released his review. Sometimes he produces interesting content in my opinion. I don't see it as being in competition with other channels, more like a suplementary thing as some different info is provided. (Native German speaker, so you'll have to get over the German accent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJ0Khw3kIc - der8auer EN In the last 3rd of the video he goes into PBO and then overclocking. And while there are indeed no substantial gains for gaming, for the multicore results from Cinebench R23 however there are substantial gains observable with both a manual overclock and just PBO. Now if course Cinebench R23 isn't representative of all kinds of production workloads. So we'll have to wait a bit longer and see what will come out of it.