AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 5,193 ratings

Price: 82.99

Last update: 12-26-2024


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Item Package Dimension: 5.43L x 5.27W x 2.86H inches
Item Package Weight - 0.97 Pounds
Item Package Quantity - 1
Product Type - COMPUTER PROCESSOR

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Amy
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing for the price
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2024
This is a quality built CPU that is great for most games. It doesn’t support PCIE GEN 4.
And it doesn’t get too hot If You want PCIE Generation 4 I recommend getting the Ryzen 5600 which is similar This is great for the price and if you are trying to play anything, it will work amazingly and the stock cooler works good too. You don’t need to buy a separate cooler. This is a great value for your money
Mateo Estrada
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good for the price
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
Got this for my home server and I couldn't ask for more. 12 threads, big cache and pretty fast. It doesn't warm up even a little bit... The only downside would be you're limited to pcie 3.0
coffeelake
5.0 out of 5 stars A great budget CPU under $100
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2024
If you are looking for reliable and stable CPU under $100 this the one you should buy. It runs cool and stable which I did not expect from AMD. Therefore, this Ryzen experiment is a different level. As I had a bad experience with their FX series and I was always a big fan of Intel.
I switch sides and no regrets at all. No wonder the company is gaining the desktop market. Thumbs up for Ryzen.
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coffeelake
5.0 out of 5 stars A great budget CPU under $100
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2024
If you are looking for reliable and stable CPU under $100 this the one you should buy. It runs cool and stable which I did not expect from AMD. Therefore, this Ryzen experiment is a different level. As I had a bad experience with their FX series and I was always a big fan of Intel.
I switch sides and no regrets at all. No wonder the company is gaining the desktop market. Thumbs up for Ryzen.
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Adam
5.0 out of 5 stars Good CPU, well priced
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
This is a good CPU to get you onto an AM4 motherboard, if that's where you want to be for now. It doesn't have PCIe 4.0, but you are not likely to need that unless you are managing a data center, that is why AMD made the consious decision to limit this to PCIe 3.0... you simply don't need PCIe Gen 4 whether you understand why or not. The pricing of this CPU at under $100 is totally right, and it feels good to go with this and not be stuck with an Intel motherboard, given the problems with Intel's CPUs. This AMD CPU has 12 threads, which gives you a good ability to game and stream live... I think this CPU is great for a practical/value gaming system.
Darius Wolf
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beast in Disguise with this Price
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
This Processor to many people on the outside, may just seem like an everyday use one. When in reality much like the Series AMD has always used where it has an "X" or a "G" on the end of the model, it's not associated to gaming or even for heavy workloads like AutoCAD. When in reality this CPU for the asking price of under 100$ is an absolute tank.

There are a few problems, but that's mainly related to OS stuff. A good example is Windows 10 this was idling at 47C-50C with no load, just the OS. I believe that cause Windows has become unbelievably bloated and had it doing unnecessary loads. The other is that, the stock fan it comes with, don't trust it. The fan given is alright at best, but once your PC start multi-tasking and putting a proper load on it, even worse when Turbo is on. The fan will not keep at all. Plus the Thermal compound on the fan, don't trust that as well. Not enough paste on it, so wipe it off with alcohol and use MX-4 or something similiar.

The processor is fully compatible with whatever route you take whether it's virtual machine, Linux, Windows. It has very high performance and damn near an endless possible compatibility. I run on it on Linux, which fixed my load issue and it has been amazing ever since. Especially considering out of the box you are told you have full control of the Processor's speed and power, which is greatly welcomed if you have a power supply that can't handle a full load.

Highly recommended whether it be an upgrade or building a PC, especially if you're short from grabbing the newer series. I can guarantee that this one will carry for quite awhile.
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Darius Wolf
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beast in Disguise with this Price
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
This Processor to many people on the outside, may just seem like an everyday use one. When in reality much like the Series AMD has always used where it has an "X" or a "G" on the end of the model, it's not associated to gaming or even for heavy workloads like AutoCAD. When in reality this CPU for the asking price of under 100$ is an absolute tank.

There are a few problems, but that's mainly related to OS stuff. A good example is Windows 10 this was idling at 47C-50C with no load, just the OS. I believe that cause Windows has become unbelievably bloated and had it doing unnecessary loads. The other is that, the stock fan it comes with, don't trust it. The fan given is alright at best, but once your PC start multi-tasking and putting a proper load on it, even worse when Turbo is on. The fan will not keep at all. Plus the Thermal compound on the fan, don't trust that as well. Not enough paste on it, so wipe it off with alcohol and use MX-4 or something similiar.

The processor is fully compatible with whatever route you take whether it's virtual machine, Linux, Windows. It has very high performance and damn near an endless possible compatibility. I run on it on Linux, which fixed my load issue and it has been amazing ever since. Especially considering out of the box you are told you have full control of the Processor's speed and power, which is greatly welcomed if you have a power supply that can't handle a full load.

Highly recommended whether it be an upgrade or building a PC, especially if you're short from grabbing the newer series. I can guarantee that this one will carry for quite awhile.
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zoomba1
4.0 out of 5 stars Took a bit of setting up
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2024
When I first got it it did not work at all, half of my fans were not spinning but now it is working perfectly!
All I done was update bios with my old cpu then I reinstalled it and it is fine

DM me on discord with my username and I can give ya a hand.
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars VERY CHEAP AND VERY WORTH IT
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2024
I finally upgraded my CPU from a very old and outdated i7-4790k to this Ryzen 5500, No more lagging, no more CPU overloading, no more random interrups and stutters. Can play big games that are heavily CPU reliant without issues, such as BF2042 in my case with 128 players in an online match. For $87, it's well worth it if you're on a budget.
D. Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars It does it's job.
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2023
For me CPUs like this, which are budget CPUs are mostly about the price. For $100 USD or less this is an excellent buy. If it's more than that, uhhhh. I'll take the 5600 for $130 Bob.

While this is a Zen 3 CPU, it's not PCIe gen4 and you should be aware of this before buying. It's not the same line of CPU that most Zen 3 CPUs which are Vermeer. This is Cezanne. There are 3 Cezanne CPUs, the other two are OEM only, meaning they only come in a PC you buy from a company that makes PCs like Dell, etc........ For the most part this isn't a problem because it's a budget CPU, however if you pair this with something like an AMD Radeon 6500 XT which only uses 4 PCIe lanes to connect to the CPU, you'll get bad performance. So don't do that.

Otherwise as long as you pair this with at least an 8 PCIe lane GPU it works fine. You take a tiny hit in GPU performance but not enough to worry about.

The bigger hit comes with the NVMe drives, especially in 2023 and going forward. There are now MANY NVMe disks that are a lot faster than 4GB/s, and to give as simple explanation as I can, a PCIe lane is a serial data line. The way a PCIe device/bus works is by grouping a certain amount of lanes so that you get the speed of a single PCIe lane times the number of lanes you have. Any NVMe disk has 4 lanes. It also means the port you plug it into along with what it connects to (CPU, motherboard chipset) has 4 PCIe lanes that it will connect with. So, you get 4 PCIe lanes. So now you need to know the data speed for each lane. For PCIe gen3, the speed of each lane is 1GB/s. For PCIe gen4 the speed of each lane is 2GB/s. So, with this CPU, the best you can get is a data transfer rate of 4GB/s to an NVMe disk. That's it. The newest disks coming out the end of 2022, and 2023 can hit speeds near 9GB/s. Now, most data transfers to/from NVMe disks can't run at that speed. However many disks can run many data transfers faster than 4GB/s, so that means a CPU that runs PCIe gen3 is slowing down modern NVMe disks that can run gen4 or now gen5 speeds. But that's not a statement that has a clear meaning, because just because a disk is called gen4, it doesn't mean most of the data transfers to/from that disk will run at the full bandwidth of PCIe gen4 x4 lanes = 8GB/s. Most gen4 disks rarely hit that speed if ever. Only the most expensive ones do. BUT once again many will run different types of transfers above 4GB/s.

So that's the description of what it means to have PCIe gen3 when dealing with modern NVMe disks. You're going to slow down some of the data transfers, not all, depending on how fast (which also means more expensive) the disk is.

Yes for a general purpose PC build this is good enough and it's a low cost option that's really good at $100 USD or less. However if the price of this starts to get closer to the Ryzen 5600, I'd rather buy the 5600 because that's PCIe gen4 which is as good as it gets with an AMD AM4 motherboard.

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