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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor Kit with ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor Kit with ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard
Key Features
  • 16 Cores & 32 Threads
  • 4.3 GHz Base | 5.7 GHz Max Boost
  • Zen 5 Architecture
  • Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics
Start your gaming build right with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor Kit with ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard from B&H. The AMD Ryzen 9 processor fits in the AM5 socket of this ASUS ROG Crosshair Hero motherboard. With both the processor and motherboard ready to go, you can focus on purchasing the rest of your build, such as the graphics card, memory (RAM), storage, power supply, and case.
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Start your gaming build right with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor Kit with ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard from B&H. The AMD Ryzen 9 processor fits in the AM5 socket of this ASUS ROG Crosshair Hero motherboard. With both the processor and motherboard ready to go, you can focus on purchasing the rest of your build, such as the graphics card, memory (RAM), storage, power supply, and case.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor

Take your computing experiences to a new level with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor. Featuring 16 cores and 32 threads with 64MB of L3 Cache, this desktop processor quickly loads and multitasks demanding applications.

Designed for socket AM5 motherboards using the powerful Zen 5 4nm architecture, this Ryzen processor offers exceptional performance. With a base clock speed of 4.3 GHz and a max boost clock speed of 5.7 GHz, the Ryzen 9 9950X delivers the power needed to smoothly handle tasks ranging from content creation to immersive gaming experiences. You can boost performance further by overclocking this unlocked processor. Other features include support for PCIe Gen 5 technology and 5600 MHz ECC DDR5 RAM with compatible motherboards.

This processor has a 170W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and does not include a cooling solution. Integrated Radeon Graphics delivers rich visuals.

Precision Boost 2
AMD Ryzen processors monitor the system's energy consumption, temperatures, and other factors to automatically raise clock speeds, allowing applications to perform faster.
Precision Boost Overdrive
Precision Boost Overdrive technology takes advantage of your compatible motherboard's design to boost clock speeds higher and for longer periods of time. It also allows you overclock the processor at the touch of a button.
AMD Ryzen Master Utility
Personalized Performance
The AMD Ryzen Master Utility provides you with multiple custom profiles to store CPU, GPU, and DDR4 memory configurations. Use it to configure performance parameters for the active cores and adjust memory times. You can also optimize general performance or fine tune your favorite applications.
System Monitoring
Monitor your system in real-time using the AMD Ryzen Master Utility, which features a histogram of per-core clock rates and temperature, including average and peak readings.
UPC: 730143315272
ASUS Republic of Gamers Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard

Achieve extreme performance with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870-E Hero AM5 ATX Motherboard as the foundation of your custom build. Supporting AMD 7000, 8000, and 9000 series processors and fast connectivity, this premium socket AM5 motherboard is ready for everything from intense gaming experiences to demanding AI workloads.

Four DDR5 DIMM slots are available, supporting up to 256GB of memory for smooth multitasking, large projects, and demanding applications. For storage, you can install up to three M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSDs alongside two PCIe 4.0 drives to store your games library and important files. There are also four SATA III ports and one SlimSAS connector for compatible storage drives. With two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, you can install powerful graphics cards and other compatible expansions.

The two USB4 ports on the rear panel allow you to connect 40 Gb/s compatible devices or a USB-C compatible 8K display. They are complemented by six USB-A and two USB-C ports that can transfer up to 10 Gb/s with compatible devices. The front port connectors include support for two 20 Gb/s USB-C ports, one of which can provide up to 60W power delivery. Built-in Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) support, along with 2.5 and 5 Gb/s Ethernet ports, provide you with fast connections to compatible network devices. Windows 11 64-bit is required to take advantage of all the motherboard's features.

ASUS AI Intelligence
AI Networking II
AI Networking II combines intelligent technologies to continuously optimize network performance, provide trustworthy and seamless connectivity while unleashing Wi-Fi 7 speeds.
AI Overclocking
Maximize CPU performance with predictions for ideal CPU and cooling settings, pushing your system to its limits.
AI Cooling II
Maintain optimal thermals and reduced noise with dynamic fan speeds adjustments based on CPU temperatures.
Performance Overclocking
Dynamic OC Switcher
The Dynamic OC Switcher maximizes CPU performance by letting you set current and temperature thresholds to automatically switch between a manual overlock for heavy multithreaded workloads and Precision Boost Overdrive for single-threaded tasks. The Overclocking Load Guard has an enhanced current protection mechanism to help prevent users from experiencing system crashes during overclocking.
Core Flex
Core Flex empowers you to smash limits farther than ever before by letting you control power and thermals in creative new ways. In its simplest form, you can set breakpoints to gradually reduce CPU core frequency as temperature or current increases. But the system is extremely adaptable, supporting multiple user-controlled functions that can manipulate power, current and temperature limits independently so that you can bend CPU performance to your will.
Asynchronous Clock
The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero features a built-in clock generator that isolates CPU base clock from memory, PCIe, and the Infinity Fabric speed to drive peak CPU performance while maintaining the stability of related clock domains.
Precision Boost Overdrive Enhancement
AMD Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) pushes the CPU current and voltage budget to opportunistically increase performance. By aggressively tuning the PBO parameters, AMD's algorithm can leverage the motherboard's robust power solution to ramp up performance even higher.
Performance
DDR5 Overclocking
This motherboard is ready for enthusiast-grade kits courtesy of vast AMD EXtended Profiles for Overclocking (EXPO) support.
NitroPath DRAM Technology
NitroPath DRAM Technology provides enhanced DDR5 memory performance. Shorter gold finger pins and optimized signal pathways ensure faster data transfers between your DRAM and CPU, allowing for greater memory overclocking headroom and stability. These reinformed DRAM slots are also better prepared to withstand the wear and tear of the RAM installation process than traditional slot designs, perfect for enthusiasts who keep their system upgraded with the fastest kits available.
AEMP
ASUS Enhanced Memory Profile (AEMP) is an exclusive firmware feature for PMIC-restricted memory modules.
Power Design
Sporting 18(110A)+2(110A)+2 power stages with two 8-pin ProCool II power connectors, the Crosshair X870E Hero delivers reliable and stable performance with high-core count CPUs, graphics cards, and other power-intensive components. MicroFine alloy chokes and 10K black metallic capacitors quickly dissipate heat around voltage regulators and offers greater overclocking headroom.
Advanced Cooling
Designed for overclocking, this motherboard maintains optimal performance and stability with fan and AIO pump headers, and an M.2 backplate in addition to M.2 slots, VRM, and chipset heatsinks.
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 7
Wi-Fi 7 supports 320 MHz bandwidth on the 6 GHz band and 4096 QAM. Multi-Link Operation (MLO) ensures stable connections and low latency, supporting 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz bands for enhanced coverage and throughput.
2.5G and 5G Ethernet
Onboard 2.5G and 5G Ethernet ports provide fast and stable connectivity to compatible wired devices.
Dual USB4 Connectivity
Transfer massive project files with 40 Gb/s compatible storage drives. The USB4 ports also allow you to connect either one 8K monitor or two 4K displays for enhanced multitasking.
Front 20G USB-C
This motherboard features a USB-C front panel connector for speedy data transfers with up to 20 Gb/s devices. Quick Charge 4+ technology provides up to 60W charging with compatible tablets and mobile gaming devices.
Gaming Audio
SupremeFX
ROG SupremeFX blends hardware and software technologies to provide superior audio. The Crosshair X870E Hero features the ALC4080 codec for high-resolution playback at up to 32-bit / 384 kHz across all channels. The front-panel output is streamed through the integrated Savitech amplifier that can drive high-fidelity acoustics to a wide variety of gaming headsets.
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos expands on traditional surround sound systems by adding height channels, which enables immersive three-dimensional audio to be perceived from above, below and around the listener.
DIY Friendly
Easy M.2 Installation
ASUS M.2 Q-Release, Q-Slide and Q-Latch technologies allows you to quickly install or remove M.2 SSDs without the need for tools or screws.
PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim
With PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim, simply tilt the card toward the latching mechanism to automatically unlock it from the PCIe slot. Users no longer need to fiddle with a tricky latch or even press a button to release their graphics card from the slot.
Q-Antenna
With Q-Antenna, attaching a Wi-Fi antenna to your PC is a snap. Instead of slowly rotating two fasteners until they finally lock in, they just snap into place.
Q-LED
The on-board Q-LED troubleshooting lights give PC builders a quick indicator to confirm that key components are functioning normally during startup. It can also alert them when memory modules have not been properly installed.
Troubleshooting
A built-in start button and Q-Code LEDs help you quickly identify problems.
Clear CMOS and BIOS FlashBack
Clear the CMOS at the touch of a button to help remove data corruption from the chip. BIOS FlashBack makes BIOS updates easy. Just load the BIOS file onto a FAT32 USB stick, insert it into the BIOS FlashBack port, and press a button. No CPU or memory needed.
Software Utilities
ASUS DriverHub
Simplify driver management with automatic detection, one-click installation and update for smooth, efficient system performance.
ASUS GlideX
Using this app enables smooth screen sharing and control across PCs, tablets, and smartphones via wired or wireless connections, across multiple platforms.
HWINFO
This comprehensive diagnostic tool provides detailed information about hardware components and real-time system monitoring.
AIDA64 Extreme
The AIDA64 Extreme tool provides detailed information about the hardware components and software, perform benchmark tests, and help prevent possible hardware issues. A 60-day trial subscription is included.
Armoury Crate
Armoury Crate is a software utility designed to give you centralized control of supported gaming products, making it easy to tune the look and feel of your system. From a single intuitive interface, Armoury Crate helps you customize RGB lighting and effects for compatible devices and synchronize them with Aura Sync to create a unified lighting scheme across your system. In addition, Armoury Crate's Fan Xpert4 tool provides comprehensive control over fans, water pumps, and all-in-one (AIO) coolers.
Play in Style
Aura Sync
Enhance your immersion with RGB lighting effects, including modes that adapt to the on-screen action. Then synchronize them with Aura Sync compatible peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and monitors.
Addressable Gen 2 RGB headers
The three addressable Gen 2 headers automatically optimize lighting effects for the number of LEDs present on compatible ARGB gear.
UPC: 197105710306
Kit Contains:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor

Key Specs
CPU Model
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
CPU Socket
AM5
Unlocked
Yes
Number of Cores
16
Base Clock Speed
4.3 GHz
Maximum Boost Speed
5.7 GHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP, Max)
170 W
Included Thermal Solution
No
Integrated Graphics
AMD Radeon
General
CPU Model
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
CPU Socket
AM5
Manufacturing Process
4 nm
Maximum CPU Configuration
1S
Maximum Number of PCIe Lanes
28 (Revision 5.0)
Unlocked
Yes
Performance
Number of Cores
16
Number of Threads
32
Base Clock Speed
4.3 GHz
Maximum Boost Speed
5.7 GHz
Dedicated AI Cores
No
L3 Cache
64 MB
Memory Support
Maximum Capacity
192 GB
Memory Support
DDR5 Up to 5600 MT/s
ECC Memory
Yes
Channel Architecture
Dual Channel
Power
Thermal Design Power (TDP, Max)
170 W
Included Thermal Solution
No
Maximum Temperature
203°F / 95°C
Thermal Monitoring Technologies
Yes
Technology
AES Support
Yes
Extension
AVX, AVX 2.0, AVX-512, FMA3, SSE 4.1/4.2
Instruction Set
64-Bit
Virtualization
Yes: AMD-V
Performance Technologies
Precision Boost 2
Integrated Graphics
Integrated Graphics
AMD Radeon
Output Support
DisplayPort, HDMI
Base Clock Speed
2200 MHz
Packaging Info
Package Weight
0.195 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
5 x 4.9 x 1.4"

AMD 9950X Reviews

Great CPU.

By J.R.
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2026-03-27

Works great for me with everything from gaming to photo/video editing, if and when you undervolt watch for core stretching in low power and idle usage of your P.C. but I get up to 24650 in cinebench r23 and 9174 in cinebench r26. (undervolting tutorials on YouTube)

Fast CPU

By Hindy
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2025-07-10

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X is a very fast and capable CPU. I'm using it with a CORSAIR NAUTILUS RS 360mm AIO liquid cooler and 3 stock case fans. So far, temps are great — around 100°F (37.8°C) at idle and 118°F (47.8°C) under load. It seems to automatically boost its clock speeds, which is impressive. As someone coming from Intel, I’m a bit nervous about long-term stability, but I’ll update this review if I encounter any issues. I bought it for video editing, AI work, and graphic design, paired with an NVIDIA 5070 Ti, and I’m quite happy — though it might be a bit of overkill for some users.

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Will a Corsair CX650M be compatible with this ...

Will a Corsair CX650M be compatible with this motherboard?
Asked by: kevin
Yes, the Corsair CX650M is compatible with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor Kit with ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WiFi AM5 ATX Motherboard.
Answered by: JP A
Date published: 2025-09-28
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