We owe you an explanation... Our Ryzen 7950X3D Review is Late but Worth the Wait

Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at Experience fast and seamless remote access using AnyDesk: CPUs, GPUs, laptops, Macs- everything has a failure rate. Our AMD Ryzen 7950X3D was the victim of the silicon lottery. But there’s more to the story than mere benchmark numbers… Discuss on the forum: Buy a AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D: Buy a AMD Ryzen 9 79550X: Buy an Intel Core i9-13900K: Buy a Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master Motherboard: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: ► LTX 2023 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:25 Our original data 3:37 AMD’s response 3:58 Did we get a bad chip? 7:05 We got a replacement CPU 9:47 Verifying the new chip is good 10:17 Was the New CPU better? 11:30 2 ways AMD screwed up 12:20 What this CPU is GREAT at 13:28 Why would AMD do this? 14:14 Why would LTT do this? 14:53 Who should buy it? 16:35 Outro