AMD’s second-generation Ryzen CPUs have landed, and if you’re on the lookout for a new chip with a great bang-for-the-buck, you should give a chip like the Ryzen 7 2700X a hard look for your next build.

While I had plenty of time to test and write this review, other things (work and life) prevented me from making this as in-depth as I’d like it to be. I am actually writing the entire thing hours in advance of embargo, after retesting lagged me a bit. So, this article is no work of art, but the point definitely gets across through the variety of performance results.