We covered AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPU series when it launched early last month. If you aren’t familiar with our coverage of the series, you should start with our coverage of the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X as your primer. The only CPU we tested specifically was AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 3900X CPU. Today, we are looking at the Ryzen 7 3700X. There were always plans to review more of AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series from the start, so we apologize for the late coverage.

Unfortunately, reviewing these CPU’s has been problematic due to the various teething issues with the X570 platform and the boost clock issues with these CPU’s, this proved to be much more difficult than one would have expected. This is the reason for the delay in coverage. We wanted to gather as much information as possible, rather than just running benchmarks and saying a CPU was or wasn’t a good buy. Like many things, it isn’t quite that simple.