AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core CPU Review – Revisiting Zen 4 on ASRock’s X670E Taichi & Gigabyte’s X670E AORUS Xtreme

For testing, I used the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and the motherboard used included the X670E AORUS Master plus the ASRock X670E Taichi.

ProcessorsAMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Motherboard (BIOS)ASRock X670E Taichi (1.09)
X670E AORUS Xtreme (F6a)
X670E AORUS Master (F8a)
ASUS X670E ROG HERO (0705)

Power SupplyASUS ROG THOR 1200W

Solid State DriveSamsung SSD 980 PRO M.2 (1 TB)

MemoryG.SKILL Trident Z5 32 GB (2 x 16GB) CL36 6000 Mbps (DDR5 Platforms)

Video CardsMSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X

Cooling SolutionsCorsair H115i (With LGA 1700 Mounting Kit)

OSWindows 11 64-bit

Our test rig includes the Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB SSD that boots up our main OS while a 2 TB Seagate HDD is used for the storage of games and applications. In addition to these, we are running an MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X graphics card, and an ASUS ROG Thor 1200W power supply. For this specific review, we used G.Skill’s latest Trident Z5 NEO DDR5-6000 memory kit running at CL30 timings. We also got an AM5 mounting kit for the Corsair H115i to use as a cooling solution for our test setup.